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The children of Cain

The purpose of life is to discover the purpose of life We are the children of Cain cursed-wanderers all building towers sky-ward desperate to be reunited with our ground-of-being the echoes of our hearts' call never returning

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/3/2025 12:16:00 AM

I really like this one. I don't believe the view I grew up with Mormonism though.

Robert Warlov
Date: 5/3/2025 10:09:00 AM

Walk on home to Jesus all you good girls and boys ~ I'm all in pieces - you can have your own choice - but I can hear a heavenly band full of angels, comin' to set me free, don't know nothin' 'bout the why or when but I can tell you that it's bound to be - 'cause I can feel it, on a country road. - James Taylor "Country Road"

Tom Woody

Date: 4/24/2025 4:29:00 PM

Interesting poem. However I prefer to think of myself as a descendant of Seth

Robert Warlov
Date: 4/24/2025 6:53:00 PM

"Reification" has it that biologically-intrinsic "Morality" understood as a-priori to Perception makes "Religion" a "Collective" or "Shared" Psychological experience. ~ CHAT ~ put it this way: ~ God = the unpatterned, unnameable origin of all value = Dynamic Quality = the ineffable source that both creates and escapes form. ~ Science then wouldn't "believe in God" the way theology does—but it could include God, as the unknowable wellspring that gives rise to all knowables. That’s not dogma—it’s metaphysics.

Tom Woody
Date: 4/24/2025 5:32:00 PM

The true God, Jehovah, is no mere invention of mankind. He is the source of life

Robert Warlov
Date: 4/24/2025 4:48:00 PM

I know- that first instance which can be understood as: "reparations" ~ The story's consistency reflecting (like echoes) backwards, an author (ground-of-being) we recognize - his purpose becoming ours. I was going to say also- 'An understanding God would forgive us for inventing him in the first place'.

Robert Warlov

Date: 4/24/2025 4:15:00 PM

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