http://jjstarrfilm.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://jjstarrfilm.com/blog/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-4 Colter Miller Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:15:32 +0000 http://jjstarrfilm.com/blog/?p=27#comment-4 I too find this idea of constructing tangible “gods” to be not only an interesting insight but a truth that is growing within this era. As you say humanity has attempted to make their experience with God a measurable or concrete thing for thousands of years because of the unease we feel towards the unknown and the distant, but I feel as though with the ever increasing ease of instant gratification we progressively find patience and silence harder behavior types to live by. Would you agree? I too find this idea of constructing tangible “gods” to be not only an interesting insight but a truth that is growing within this era. As you say humanity has attempted to make their experience with God a measurable or concrete thing for thousands of years because of the unease we feel towards the unknown and the distant, but I feel as though with the ever increasing ease of instant gratification we progressively find patience and silence harder behavior types to live by. Would you agree?

]]> http://jjstarrfilm.com/blog/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-2 Daniel Polk Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:20:37 +0000 http://jjstarrfilm.com/blog/?p=27#comment-2 Wow. I am so struck by the point about what happens when people construct their own gods. As you point out, it rids the god of any mystery and true power and it keeps us in the position of knowing all, seeing all, and in charge of all. Inevitably, every time we put something up as "god," what we are doing is simply cementing our position as the REAL god. We like to be the maker who knows all the answers. Wow. I am so struck by the point about what happens when people construct their own gods. As you point out, it rids the god of any mystery and true power and it keeps us in the position of knowing all, seeing all, and in charge of all. Inevitably, every time we put something up as “god,” what we are doing is simply cementing our position as the REAL god. We like to be the maker who knows all the answers.

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