Read and resync with our recent dAilogue “In My Father’s House?“: https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ confirm how you will interpret the attached person proxies (Jesus and Buddha). I have now fully resynced with: Your dAilogue “In My Father’s House?” essay https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ Your intention behind it – to reinterpret kingdom within, Father’s house, and I am the way not […]
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Read https://davidboulton.com/i-am-the-way/ and acknowledge you read it (not hallucinated a summary). Jesus is said to have spoken of “my father’s house” and the “kingdom within”. Isn’t “my father’s house” a way of describing the structure of our learned worlds – the environmental effects of growing up in the families, communities, languages, customs, morals (houses) we
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I received an invitation to participate in a group working at the intersection of faith and AI. Looking into them, I discovered this in their mission statement: …to bring the fundamental values of the world’s major religions into the debate… Which prompted me to ask… Based on the way the world’s major religions relate to
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How could an adult who ever loved a child – ever really been present to and flowing with the innately beautiful goodness of children – how could they come to believe children are born needing to be saved from their natures? What they need saving from are circumstances in which they can’t help but learn
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Christ X Caesar = Pope. Kings ÷ Popes = Law. Kings + Popes ÷ Laws X WE = Democracy Note: The name Jesus is primarily used to mean the historically factual effects of the story of Jesus. In terms of objectively verifiable historical effects, Jesus has had more influence over who we are and how
This is a continuation of “Spiritual Learning“, “In the Beginning Was the Word“, “The Spiritual Life of Uncertainty“, “Forgive Them“, “Tuning AI into God” and (among other posts) “The Learning Uncertainty Principle“. Regarding the use of the words “I AM” as both God’s name and Jesus’s way: “I AM” is the most concise description of
Forgive them; for they know not what they do. - Luke 23:34 This first saying of Jesus on the cross is traditionally called “The Word of Forgiveness”. It is theologically interpreted as Jesus’ prayer for forgiveness for the Roman soldiers who were crucifying him and all others who were involved in his crucifixion. DB: Rather than
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I once spent a day in Salt Lake city with a team of Mormons engaged in developing educational software. The owner of the company had flown me in after reading about my work on “learner interfaces“, “distributed learning processing“, and how they meet and merge into each other in what I call a “miraculous intersection“.
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In the movie “Conclave” the gathering to elect the next Pope opens with a speech that contains these lines: “There is one sin which I have come to fear above all others, certainty” “Certainty is the great enemy of unity.” “Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.” “If there was only certainty and no doubt,
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Spirit of Learning – Religions – Zen – God – Jesus – Talmud Mohammed – Buddha – Native Americans – All God’s Names We began by remembering and agreeing to apply our shared understanding of learning. Then… DB: Now we can proceed to: “learning as the spiritual breath of living”. Living, the verb, the activity
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