Posted by jason on January 31, 2002 at 13:57:42:
In Reply to: metaphor soup posted by John on January 31, 2002 at 06:21:59:
So you enjoyed my "recipe for terror" ?? I don't know how much talent was involved... I think it is more a matter of "hard brain" fragmentation, but thanks for the benefit of the doubt! I'm glad you can follow... You'll find my answer to be a bit more straightforward than my 'recipe... Have you ever struggled with a decision and no matter how hard you've tried, you could not choose. Every option presents a logical, viable, and desireable course of action. Then, you make a decision and begin to follow through. Several days, months, years later (depending on the scope of the problem), you find that that the decision you looked at didn't fit the "actual" circumstances of your life. The question was by void... the "right" answer was "null." You look back and realize that you were powerless in a moment that you felt you had to decide. So when you look back, you see that your life was following a course in which you decided to move a certain way. If you steer the boat left, it will turn left, but if the wind is blowing from the right direction, you might still move right. Accepting that powerlessness and ackowledging God's wind (while continuing to steer the ship)... therin lies the magik... J
: Wow, that was quite possibly the largest concoction of mixed metaphors I've ever seen. That actually takes talent, lint and soup and symbolic logic and fate and dreams and shadows and mirrors and bridges and locks and pets. I'm really impressed. If it wasn't that my brain worked very much the same way I'd have absolutely no idea what you were talking about ;)
: I do have one question, what did you mean by "magik is powerlessness"?
IMNSHO, God isn't as concerned with the decisions we make as he is with the motives we use to process those decisions. Don't take this literal, though... there are many examples that exist that can override this statement (which is only a shadow of Truth - again, my opinion).