Re: What is Truth?
From: nkbjvg (emailstudenti_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/10/05
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Date: 10 Mar 2005 06:14:47 -0800
Welcome to my page!
There are four "realms" in which I live: inner self, human society,
nature & universe and book's domain. This page reveals me and my
present impressions related to these "realms". It is a page made of
words and ideas, a way of introducing myself to people who like to
read and think, to people who try to understand what life and their
life means.
Name: who cares?
"What's in a name? " (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
"A good name is better than precious ointment" Ecclesiastes 7:1 (KJV)
Age: 42 years
Nationality (Citizenship): Romanian (Romania)
Marital status: happily married, one child
Military stage: completed
Religion: none
Denomination: not affiliated, never been
Profession: A humble mathematician
Education: Ph. D. in mathematics
Teaching experience (19 years): I have taught mathematics at different
levels (secondary school, high school, college and graduate level) and
in various fields (to students of Mathematics, Economics and
Engineering departments)
Older research interests: Dynamical systems and applications; some of
my papers are well reviewed in Mathematical Reviews (AMS) and in
ZentralBlatt fűr Mathematics. But, I haven't discovered anything
enough good to improve people's life or at least to give them a hope
in a better life. And hardly can I survive myself with my research
"fruits".
Present research interests: I'm searching for a new field to invest my
energy and time. It could be related to mathematics, to computers
(programming and/or security) or to anything else, if it will be
interesting, not boring and useful for living a decent life. And I'm
also trying to find a person, a group and/or institution with which I
could affiliate in order to make a fast progress in the new field.
Do you have any suggestions?
Favorite occupations in my leisure time: reading, Internet, Chat, TV,
sports
Favorite books and authors: George Orwell, Bible, Paul Goma,
Shakespeare
Favorite drinks: a cup of quality green tea or a glass of good red
wine
Favorite music: smooth jazz, soul music, chamber music (like Bach),
and all 70's, 80's, 90's and today's really good hits
Favorite art movement: surrealism (like Salvador Dali)
Favorite recreational outdoors activities: cycling on a forest trail,
swimming in a lake in the middle of the forest, playing badminton and
soccer, swimming in a sea with big waves
Main weakness: perhaps a sort of rigidity manifested in establishing
friendly relations with people. A difficulty in approaching people,
due to bad experiences in the past.
And of course:
"There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and
never sins" Ecclesiastes 7:20 (NIV)
Main strength: I have a great potential for learning new things, in
both theoretical and practical domains. I am a conscientious and a
persistent student, I accept critiques and I do my best to correct my
mistakes.
Main purpose in life: To escape from the prison whose walls are made
of my human weaknesses (the floor), spiritual darkness (the ceiling)
and poverty (the rest of the four walls).
Personality (at present): I guess there are contradictory features in
my personality. I am rather taciturn, but communicative and quite
enthusiastic if the situation requires to make my point or if I am
interested in the ideas discussed, or if I meet friendly people. I
like to work in a team that strives to accomplish a task. I have a
good health and I like to practice sports. I am like: creative,
accurate, adventurous, conscientious, modest, discreet, open-minded
but very rigorous, meticulous, sincere, reliable, sensitive. I'm
capable of a great effort of work if I got an interesting idea or if
there is a stressing situation related to me or to somebody else who
needs my help. If I undertake a task I never leave it unfinished. I am
a good initiator whenever working or having fun and I can give
interesting ideas when I work in a group. I'm driven by a pioneering
spirit in all what I do. But I also am like: a little clumsy, a little
stubborn sometimes, a dreamer, a little naive, an introvert, sometimes
melancholic, inactive - even lazy when I'm in lack of ideas. I don't
know to dance well though I like dancing. I seldom drink and don't
smoke. Sometimes I act theatrically in intimate moments with friends
and I like theatre and theatrical situations. I don't have too many
friends and I guess there isn't any real one among them. I've grown up
slowly and, at forty years, I've become aware of some things and I've
asked myself questions that other people asked during their teens; but
I've asked them seriously. At present, I'm not sure about anything,
but I'm not sure about the contrary, either ...
Nobody can judge somebody perfectly, even himself, except: "he which
searcheth the reins and hearts" Revelation 2:23 (KJV)
Because: "For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than
any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and
spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts
and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12 (WEB)
THOUGHTS THAT I LIKE
How to approach the Bible (and not only it): "Test all things, and
hold firmly that which is good." 1Thessalonians 5:21 (WEB)
>From my (present) point of view the Bible is: a huge (liturgical) made
up conventional allegory mixed with truth or it's only incredible (but
real) truth presented, more or less, in an allegorized form. Both
approaches are not well understood or explained at the moment by
anybody, despite an enormous number of books and articles which have
been written.
Contradictions: As far as I've searched, there aren't any
contradictions in the Bible. The apparent contradictions are only
complementary descriptions of the same event.
Friends and friendship: "A friend loves at all times, and is born, as
is a brother, for adversity" Proverbs 17:17 (AMP)
"A man of too many friends comes to ruin; but there is a friend who
sticks closer than a brother."
Proverbs 18:24 (NASB)
Teaching and teachers: "If you can do it, do it! If you can't, teach
it!"
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish,
and you feed him for life!" (English proverb)
Teaching and teachers: "But you are not to be like that. Instead, the
greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules
like the one who serves." Luke 22:26 (NIV)
Teaching and teachers: Why is that there are so many teachers and
university professors who do not care at all about their students and
despise them? Why are they so boastful? Don't they realize that they
use a brain that's not their creation – they just got it somehow
(created or not created)! Even if they've worked a lot to train it,
the main credit doesn't belong to them.
Teaching and teachers: Math teachers and professors, be aware that
anybody could show you a problem which you'll never be able to solve,
even a high school problem! So, don't boast yourselves!
Education is useful, but: In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the
Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and
understanding, and revealed them to little children." Luke 10:21
(WEB)
Mahatma Ghandi (an approximate translation): "First, they will laugh
of you. Then they will declare you a foul. After that, they will try
to discredit you. Finally, they will do all they can to liquidate you.
If you are able to get out of all these, you are a great man!"
Romania and the Romanians: "What a beautiful country! It's so pity
it's inhabited!" (an Englishman)
Romania and the Romanians: There have never been vampires here. The
Romanian government should sue the companies that made movies about
Vlad the Impaler, relating him to Dracula - the vampire. He was a
great king of Walachia. His father got the "order of the Dragon" from
Sigismund, the king of Hungary, as a reward for his victories against
the Turkish armies. In Romanian, the word "dragon" is translated by
"drac". From here got Vlad's father (and his family inherited) the
name "of Draculea", that is, those from the family of the man wearing
a dragon symbol on his chest. Like when you say in English "the
Smiths". The Western diplomats of that time couldn't pronounce
"Draculea" so that they latinized the word in "Dracula". There isn't
any connection with vampires and stuff. Vlad the Impaler is my
favorite Romanian king. His methods against the thieves and murderers
were very tough, but effective, and not beyond the methods used
elsewhere in Europe, see for example the history of England.
On the first page of my fifth grade ancient history book was written
an idea of the former communist writers but still true nowadays: "The
state is an instrument in the hand of the rich people to exploit the
poor people".
Human society has always been like this: "People will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to
their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving,
slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God — having a form of godliness but denying its power. [...], always
learning but never able to acknowledge the truth" 2 Timothy 3: 2-7
(TNIV)
Human society should be like: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and
self-control" Galatians 5: 22-23 (TNIV)
The best human organization – your body: "But now God has set the
members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired. If they
were all one member, where would the body be ? But now they are many
members, but one body. The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need
for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."No,
much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are
necessary. Those parts of the body which we think to be less
honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our
unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety; whereas our
presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body
together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part, that there
should be no division in the body, but that the members should have
the same care for one another. When one member suffers, all the
members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members
rejoice with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and members
individually." 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 27 (WEB)
My favorite prophecy: "In the days of those kings shall the God of
heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the
sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in
pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever"
Daniel 2:44 (WEB)
Something I don't like: intellectualism, "culturism", traditionalism,
dogmatism, sectarism, legalism, literalism, institutionalism
Because: Love overrides intellectualism (& comp.); and intellectualism
acts as a blinding force against common sense.
My impression about nature and universe: They are beautiful and great
but also scary; complicate but imperfect too. There is much cruelty
and decay shown in nature (from the smallest living organisms up to
mammals – everybody eats everybody), but also love.
Miracles: There are two kind of miracles. Ordinary and out of the
ordinary miracles. By miracle I understand something that can't be
explained by today's scientists. But nothing can be completely
explained. Each "explanation" rises lots of other questions and a
genuine science man will agree that. If you could "explain" something
you should be able to make "from scratch" that thing. "From scratch"
means from what's beyond the elementary particles, energy and stuff.
Thus, a single leaf of a tree is an ordinary miracle. And a stone,
too. An out of the ordinary miracle should be that of Jesus
multiplicating the loaves. ...
Science and technology: There is a contradiction between man and the
general development of the society; today the ordinary man is the same
as he was centuries ago, speaking about his physical, mental or moral
condition and potential. But human knowledge (sciences and technology)
has evolved and today an individual (even a great scientist) is very
"small" comparatively to this huge development of human knowledge.
Science and technology: What have you done in order to be born ? Do
you realize how many aleatory (or random) factors were related to your
birth ? You could not have been born! Can you control your body while
working, walking or having fun ? You are using your body without being
aware of how it works in every detail. A man is a system that works by
itself, mainly. What's man's role in the growth of a single plant
from a seed ?
Science and technology: So it was the Big - Bang, then a bunch of
particles appeared and they grouped together and formed stars and
planets and finally us, humans, just like that ?!
Science and technology: To believe that science will solve all
human's problems in the future it's a matter of real faith; I don't
believe it.
The real science and technology is (according to Bible): "Yahweh, I
know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks
to direct his steps" Jeremiah 10:23 (WEB)
Mathematics: Numbers cannot describe everything. A new model for
physics, besides real analysis, would be interesting. The paradox of
Zenon could suggest this idea. Perhaps in that model many of nowadays
problems will be reformulated and solved.
Read carefully to see what you are: "Yahweh God formed man from the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7 (WEB)
And also read this to see what you'll be: "For that which happens to
the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As
the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and
man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity. All go to
one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again"
Ecclesiastes 3:19 -21 (WEB)
My opinion about death: What were you doing in 1800 at this hour ? The
same thing you will be doing in 2200.
The "cornerstone" of the Bible's message – Jesus (Yeshua) Christ
(Messiah): "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our
Savior; who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge
of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all; the
testimony in its own times; 1 Timothy 2:3-6 (WEB)
Hopes (according to Bible): "He will wipe away from them every tear
from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be
mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed
away." He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things
new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from
the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes, I will give him
these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. But for the
cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually
immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the
lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Revelation 21:4-8 (WEB)
Hopes (according to Bible) : "Now if Christ is preached, that he has
been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no
resurrection of the dead ? But if there is no resurrection of the
dead, neither has Christ been raised. If Christ has not been raised,
then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain. Yes, we
are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that
he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the
dead are not raised. For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ
been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you
are still in your sins. Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ
have perished. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of
all men most pitiable. But now Christ has been raised from the dead.
He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since death
came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. For as in
Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in
his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's,
at his coming. Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom
to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all
authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his
enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is
death. For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But
when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that
he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also
himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God
may be all in all. Or else what will they do who are baptized for the
dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for
the dead? Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? I affirm, by
the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die
daily. If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what
does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then ``let us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die``. "
1 Corinthians 15:12 - 32 (WEB)
CONCLUSION
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Jim Spriggs <jim.sprigs@ANTISPAMbtinternet.com.invalid> wrote in message news:<422F88D0.13CA5B1F@ANTISPAMbtinternet.com.invalid>...
> Hero wrote:
> >
> > Poor Bob,
> > in what a world You must live in, that You
> > even have doubts about Your own senses.
> > It must be a world full of lies and deception,
> > leading You not only believing in a God,
> > which is playing cruel tricks on You,
> > but also loves this.
> > I hope for You, that You don't have to
> > participate.
> > There's a simple remedy, it's called
> > experiment and it gives You truth.
> > No, not thought-experiment, actually
> > one has to use his hands.
> > Just lit a candle and put Your finger
> > in the flame(fire) and then go on with
> > Your ideas about Your senses decieving
> > You....
> > Good luck
> > Hero
>
> Here's another experiment: wear a hat that's too small for you, take the
> hat off and continue to feel that you're wearing it. Of course our
> senses deceive us; they so all the time.
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