From: mdc@crash.cts.com (Milo D. Cooper)
Subject: GOD.
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:22:50 PST
Keywords: god

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	The human mind is a passive system for the processing of
information.  Intellect, personality, and ideas are formed through
interaction with one's environment and no one can achieve active
thought to allow perception beyond that dictated by experience.
Anything that any of us ever does is a reaction to established
elements of the outer environment (the space beyond our bodies) or
the inner environment (bodily functions).  Everything we do, we do
for a reason.  Everything we do, we are moved to do, because we
are creatures of reaction, and not of action.  Reasons for reaction
are irrelevant at this point; they may be moral reasons or immoral
reasons or good reasons or bad reasons or obvious reasons or incon-
spicuous ones.
	Progress of any kind is due to a flaw of human information
processing which distorts incoming information based on the way in
which one's mind is shaped by his/her inner and outer environments.
Our minds divide environments into attention areas based on our
experience and personal biases.  Insight, the element common to all
revered figures of history, is a chance defying of logical reasoning
which reveals a novel and/or better method of information processing.
Logic itself can only proceed along mental pathways already defined
by experience.  The best way to innovate is not by engaging in lo-
gical thought; the best way to innovate is by making a mistake, be-
cause logic is simply a process involving one reaction after another
which deliberately avoids any seemingly irrelevant or contradictory
information.
	One cannot conceive of God when one cannot conceive of a
being which occurs beyond the limits of time.  Because humans are
unavoidably limited to existence within the confines of time, which
happens to describe our terms of being, everything for many of
us must have a beginning and, in most cases, an end.  Therefore,
lots of us will be puzzled by the assertion that God was created by
nothing and no one and "has always" existed and "always will" exist.
These same people will balk at the idea that a "good" God exists
when exposed to incidences described as "evil," because they can
see no benefit coming of this evil, in much the same way a logically-
inclined person avoids haphazard insight.  My black ancestors were
slaves.  You can be certain a slew of them saw no benefit coming of
their forced subordinate status into an oppressive society; they all
existed inside time.  And yet the immorality of slavery has yielded
an enrichment of America and, due to America's global influence, the
rest of the civilized world.  The most obvious proof of this enrich-
ment is Rock music, a product of European and African established
thought patterns.  This immoral event led to a haphazard amalgamation
of cultures which produced insight.  Natural and logical thought
would never have as readily introduced such an incredibly popular
and bonding art form.
	I shall stop here to answer any opposing comments.  This ends
part one of the Proof of God's Existence.

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			  Milo D. Cooper  '92   | 1992  |  mdc@crash.cts.com
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