well, here is a rare post from me when i'm not just trying to stir the pot:
an aspect of living I rely on heavily, and I'm just being honest, is giving power over my opinions to the Spirit of God, aka the Holy Spirit. I fully expect to catch flak for that, especially here. It's all good, though, as it has served me well.
there is curiosity in this function, dynamic, practice, or whatever you want to call it. It requires several adjustments before it works- the first two are accepting "there is something far larger than me or you" and the second being "there is something else calling the shots". In my opinion there is no argument with either of those conditions, though there is argument, and fairly, with the nature of such a condition existing- as in "what does 'it' want with me or you if it even notices we're here?'...
THAT is the argument,
not if there is design and guidance.
Part of these wanderings and wonderings brings the question (a few layers deep, and how I have come to accept from another angle altogether there is absolutely a higher being and that is
does know i'm here) is the data storage quandary or maybe data storage enigma... it goes like this, in it's basic form and interjecting analogy:
- It took a quantum computer, a year or so ago, almost a month to exhaust the possibilities of combinations and arrange the most likely and functional one on a chromosome/full strand of DNA for a single cell bacteria.
- When that bacteria reproduces, it does it by splitting in have, literally. It's different in this function than complex organisms, but we're only talking about the bacteria here... be my guest to introduce the more complex life forms as it furthers the point I'm going to (try) to make.
where is the data stored?
for one single misapplication or out of sequence event, life doesn't happen - things change significantly enough that shot was a 'dud'... that happens, but that is the exception not the rule. where is the source code for triggering that single cell bacteria's preparation and then execution of splitting itself in half and providing equal resources to it's duplicate? For just that single cell bacteria the data processing is monstrously heavy and that is focused solely on its reproduction - where does the information come from that carries out other functions required for it's lifecycle? JUST the reproduction alone required to arrange in the proper order a duplicate and functional chromosome took the very best of our creations a month to solve - but this tiny thing just 'knows'?
the questions, not discovered but highlighted, by that analogy is (the basic two)
- is this information stored within the walls of that single cell?
or
- is there something of a 'cloud' transmitting directives we've not yet detected (through scientific effort)?
now I get y'all are scratching your heads wondering where I get the license to introduce this subject to this thread in this manner, but there is relationship, here, by my reckoning...
The difference with Faith than any other single thing i've encountered is that I had to put faith in it
first before all the pieces aligned and it... revealed?.. its value. It's been my observation a person deriving their positions based on tangible things alone and dismissing Faith are ignoring what may be the greater splash. This isn't to say a person of Faith has better insight, and because- frankly- i think that's more often faked than actual... it IS to say that a person collecting whatever evidence about a subject worthy enough of the effort, pondering them, and then seeking guidance from outside the walls of our skin may be taking better advantage of how this world actually operates though is unproven by science... and a 'science' that purposely and intently dismisses exploring that possibility.
it's in that spirit^ i've come to trust in that 'cloud', as it has served me well... and it wouldn't exist without exploring it in good 'faith' (lowercase, faith is a different sort than uppercase Faith).
On matters that matter, I try to arm myself with as much information as possible- from any vantage... i'm a firm believer that "though someone or something is often wrong, it doesn't mean they're always wrong and likewise because someone is always right .....'... and once i've done my part, i listen closely to the Movement of the Holy Spirit to direct me.
never forget a chicken in south carolina out picked all but a handful of people a few years ago in a march madness bracket... your randomness is no more powerful than my means of arrangement... I just choose to believe in something far larger than me or you, and that it knows we're here, and that it has a means of communication between us- if you just listen.
