| Say there is a person you would like to date. You can analyze that person all you want, for as long as you want, but until you proceed to meet this person, that person will always be a stranger and there will never be a relationship. Your analyzing will probably prevent you from simply falling in love |
This is the exact point at which intellectualizing leaves faithing in the dust. It is the intellect that makes an abused person leave an abusive situation. It is the heart that makes him/her stay.
It is impossible to know anyone. We dont even know ourselves. We constantly seperate the shadow within and keep it hidden from others. That nation are the bad guys. They are the debased. We/I are the enlightened. All the while our own depravity we keep hidden. Our own Shadow, it is the "other" person that we dont even know. Nay caliber we know not even ourselves how can we know god.
At the same time it seems god is afflicted by the same problem. He is supremely good... (ya right) He never does wrong... (say what?) He has no darkness... (mmmkay...) Viewed externally and intellectually we can see: "ok he created everything... even the darkness... even at the very least the potential for evil." Intellectually we discern he must have darkness, evil. Intellectually we can decide to seperate ourselves from his abusiveness.
Fine be a love struck fool who has faith that "he" is not going to come home and beat you tonight even though there is plenty of intellectual evidence to the contrary.
Me? Quite content to stay as far away from the psychopath as possible, getting to know the only person in the world I can hope to ever know, ME.
