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<blockquote data-quote="losthope" data-source="post: 58252294" data-attributes="member: 94863"><p>To razeontherock.</p><p></p><p>You began by writing about Holy Communion. I am sorry but that section was not very meaningful for me.</p><p></p><p>You then questioned my statement that gaining a heart of flesh would be a disaster for my search for God. I partially answered this in my response to saralynn above. However I will also say that if God did perform a miracle and I began to feel emotions, then hopefully I would recognise it as a miracle from God and would respond to God accordingly. The problem would occur if I gained emotions for some other reason, or indeed for an unknown reason. Then there would be the worry that I would equate so-called spiritual experiences with overactive emotions, and dismiss them.</p><p></p><p>I am not against emotions. Far from it. I know that I am missing out on an important feature of normal human life, by not having emotions. I would live to have normal emotions. But in order to have normal emotions, I would need to have normally-acting hormones, and unfortunately my hormones are not acting normally.</p><p></p><p>You wrote this: <em>Thomas Merton embraced both Buddhist thought, and (of all things) Catholicism. Pretty sure he was a monk. I do think Jesus mastered and exemplified all of Buddhist teaching, on the cross. If there is any appeal of the Buddhist type of approach, this would be a great resource for you to pursue ...</em></p><p></p><p>I know that there are people who say that they are both Christian and Buddhist. But I have never wanted to do that myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="losthope, post: 58252294, member: 94863"] To razeontherock. You began by writing about Holy Communion. I am sorry but that section was not very meaningful for me. You then questioned my statement that gaining a heart of flesh would be a disaster for my search for God. I partially answered this in my response to saralynn above. However I will also say that if God did perform a miracle and I began to feel emotions, then hopefully I would recognise it as a miracle from God and would respond to God accordingly. The problem would occur if I gained emotions for some other reason, or indeed for an unknown reason. Then there would be the worry that I would equate so-called spiritual experiences with overactive emotions, and dismiss them. I am not against emotions. Far from it. I know that I am missing out on an important feature of normal human life, by not having emotions. I would live to have normal emotions. But in order to have normal emotions, I would need to have normally-acting hormones, and unfortunately my hormones are not acting normally. You wrote this: [I]Thomas Merton embraced both Buddhist thought, and (of all things) Catholicism. Pretty sure he was a monk. I do think Jesus mastered and exemplified all of Buddhist teaching, on the cross. If there is any appeal of the Buddhist type of approach, this would be a great resource for you to pursue ...[/I] I know that there are people who say that they are both Christian and Buddhist. But I have never wanted to do that myself. [/QUOTE]
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