Are people attuned to the spiritual side of life a more advanced lifeform?

[DS1]

George Lucas just said so. Is he right?

[SOteric]

1. That very much depends

on whether he intended to include those who attain some sort of spiritual Nirvana from getting an unsuspecting waif to 'pull my finger.'

[DS1]

2. No, R2, you don't have any fingers, you can't be enlightened

[Misunderestimator]

3. I chose "version of toys" ...

or whatever the hell that was... :D

Funny poll.

[DS1]

12. I put that in there after seeing Ep II, specifically when R2

slipped those thrusters out of his arms and floated down off a ledge - thus "invalidating" any previous version of the R2 that's sans thrusters - I just know that Lucas did that to get people to buy the SAME STUFF over again. How many versions of the first three were sold? Laserdisc edit, special laserdisc re-edit, vhs, vhs gold, then vhs widescreen, then remaster, then remaster with digital enhancement

It's bullshit.

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Yeah, it's the mitochloridians

I don't need the sarcasm smilie, do I? And no, I'm not going to look up the spelling on mitochloridians. Right up to the point where George dragged in the mitochloridians, I might have at least listened to anything he'd say about theology, philosophy, the meaning of life, whatever. Since Ep. 1, not so much.

[matcom]

5. i bow to the alter of Jar Jar Binx

he is ssssooooooooooooooo advanced :D

*bedtime now*

[Bouncy Ball]

6. I tried to make myself care what George Lucas thinks

just now and it didn't work.

[YankeyMCC]

7. I think

taking life advice from the man that brought us JarJar Binks isn't a good idea.

[tjdee]

8. Wookie.

He really thinks he's a genius, doesn't he?

You lot only encourage him, with your standing in line to see his movies and such.

[DS1]

9. Who's standing in line?

:shrug:

Am I supposed to be typing from outside Mann's Chinese Theatre?

[tjdee]

10. I meant the general *you*...not you you.

:crazy:
I was thinking about the thread where someone asked if DUers were excited to see Revenge of the Sith.

But you know they're going to show the lines on tv...and somewhere someone's planning on sleeping overnight at the theater....and god forbid, dressing up like a wookie.

[DS1]

11. Somewhere someone's already sleeping in line for a month

;-)

[Thtwudbeme]

13. I thought Rabrrrrrrrrrr was a girl!

Who knew!

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Waaaaaaaa!

Sometimes I think it would be cool to be a woman, but no, I am not.

[Thtwudbeme]

15. Sorry!

I don't know what made me think that; I have been on DU for years too...always remember seeing you-

You must be a helluva man to "sound" like a woman on a message board though ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. It takes a special man to embrace his feminine side

so readily and strongly.

:-)

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. The devils are pure spirits,

like their godly counterparts, the angels, the pure spirits who love God. Similarly, some human beings are more intuitive and spiritual than most; and of these there are both good and bad.

It is a matter of common experience that women and children are more spiritual in this sense, and ordinarily children are able to more easily preserve their divine grace unmarred. (When we grow older and have to deal with the World in terms of our physical and maybe social survival, our moral choices become more costly and/or more difficult (from the Christian standpoint), and at the very least the consistency of our choices of right over wrong becomes notably impaired.

Love, then, as Jesus taught, is the fulness of the Law, and attunement to the spiritual world not virtuous in itself, although a very significant part of Jesus' mission was to gather us into a church and teach us to grow closer in our relationship with him, through worship, our mutual love and our love of others.

For reasons we can only speculate about, though it is wonderfully humbling, it transpires that God chooses to fill the hearts of many people unfamiliar with any religious faith, still less baptism or a church, with this self-same love of himself and their fellow human beings.

My late brother was a good example of this unusual kind of blessing, accompanied of course, by the loss of not knowing Jesus, to speak to and be spoken to, i.e to pray to. He was baptised and confirmed as a child, but didn't "take to" conscious belief or formal worship, and none of his four children were baptised. Yet, he has always been the model Christian I base my aspirations upon, because though he mixed and was respected in kind of rough circles, he was, himself, as the saying goes, a "rough diamond". He had a very big heart for other people, particularly when they were afflicted by some misfortune. Not that he wore his heart on his sleeve. He wouldn't have wanted to do that under any circumstances. But as his younger brother, I couldn't but notice it. In fact, most people are pretty intuitive chacter-wise, and I'm sure that was very much a part of why he was so liked and respected.

So, while it is good, even ideal, to focus on the spiritual dimension in our life, God has a lot of people who are nevertheles very special to him, for whom he cares particularly lovingly, despite their appearing to be outside the fold of the visible church, and formal worship. Love is the fulness of the Law. Matthew 18, again.






















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