Dear,
Ted
Why do you depict reason as a demon? In Christian Theology the Logos is one with God. Logos, in Greek, is Reason.
This gets to a fascinating coincidence today. I, on January 21, 2022, saw a description of a very rare phenomena. It was a supposed "UFO" sighting over Nuremburg. Now, there are no aliens. I know that for a fact. As, making the symbol I saw into a UFO spaceship nullifies the symbol of the actual events being described. By multiple witnesses. There were two crosses fighting on the eye of the sun, and this was right when Catholics and Protestants were about to really go at it.
William Wordsworth writes a story called "The White Doe of Rylstone." The events are dated at 1569. And, this very rare historical artifact shows up in verse 258 of Canto III. On the same day I discover it. Now, the plot thickens. I have annunciated the same meaning to this symbol. We both concur that it's about church division.
What this means, is that there is communication. Two people, from two completely different time periods, discover the same symbol from the same event. We both conclude that it's a metaphor for religious war between the Protestants and the Catholics. If there is meaning---and hold off on the miracle for just a second---it means there must be a god. Why? Because for meaning to transcend personal interpretations---to actually exist---requires the existence of truths which science cannot measure. In short, Logos. If there are truths which lie beyond the physical world; truths which cannot be measured by science or instruments, then there must be a higher authority and a higher ordering of the universe.
Now, I'm confident there aren't time travelers, or UFOs---in the traditional sense---I'm confident these were signs by God. As, one serendipitous thing has happened. I found this on the same day I read the specific Canto by William Wordsworth in the White Doe of Rylstone. Such a timing would be astronomically impossible to intersect in time and space. Now, the Demon of Reason can pop up, and say that some extraterrestrial force set those events in motion. I highly doubt that. Such an assumption would require them to have such a mastery over time and space, and also a mastery over human subjects, and a mastery over computer technology, and a mastery over communication, that such a coincidence is impossible to be created by any intelligence, other than God's.
With that said, to find the meaning of the symbol means there is meaning to be found. It means there is communication, beyond that of physical matter. And, that would be just one, small thing, if not for the myriads of other things I've witnessed. Such things which could only be Supernatural and miraculous. I describe one event. Therefore, reason, if it is a demon, cannot be reason at all. And even that, sort of, is kind of miraculous that it could even be so perfectly timed for this email.
Sincerely,
B. K. Neifert
P.S.
Slippery slope is not a fallacy, if the sufficiency of each causal chain necessitate. That would make it syllogism, which is perfectly logical.
P.S.S.
I've also seen Russian rivers run like blood. I've seen children's eyes go black as the pit of night. I've seen blind and deaf people healed. I've seen God's story written in the stars. I've seen people healed completely from illnesses. I've seen people raised from the dead.
If you can believe in aliens, and they'd be capable of contriving an event so specific, then why me? Personally, I know you have no faith. So, be deluded. You'll be as mad as I was believing in all that mumbojumbo.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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