Posts by Matthew Ortiz3

Lisa Morales4 said:It’s not up for debate that they are mutants paraphrasing the teachings of Jesus Christ to fit their current surroundings and subculture, but my point was simply that they are nothing more than seekers of Truth, just like any other person since the dawn of the century. Even someone like J. Krishnamurti, who teaches the same human ontological drive toward knowing Truth and Love through self-experience, essentially reframes it. That's how we ended up with what used to be Buddhist nothingness becoming everythingness, emptiness becoming fullness, and total extinction becoming sustainability. Isn't that just the ultimate new way

Quote: actually, "spirituality" is a meaningless word in the context of this topic. Especially if we start from a naturalistic metaphysics—then it makes no sense at all because there is no spirit to be found as an object within it. Naturalism destroys the duality of spirit and matter at its very core. I don't know of an equivalent term, so I use "spirituality," even though it often implies a belief in unprovable realities, paranormal phenomena, or religious concepts.

So what exactly is young Jeff enlightening if not his own spirit?
And how can naturalism "destroy" something that "(anyway) doesn't exist"?

I'm just not satisfied with those negative theories of naturalism where a person is nothing more than a biological robot. I'm not fulfilled by a version of naturalism where someone gets high on some natural hallucinogens and then wanders off down some otherworldly path.

I choose what the Holy Spirit gathers into the One—what our Source has already chosen for us. I choose a person who knows how to move through the diversity and plurality of a single world. A person who is both conscious and conscientious. Someone who is both spiritual and physical. Someone who recognizes and understands their own guarantee and their connection to the eternal, ever-present, almighty, and omniscient Truth, Love, and Justice, which is One both in heaven and on earth. It is simply up to a person's free will to seek it out, to reach for it.

In everyday life, I generally have no trouble expressing the same thing in plain, ordinary language, leaving room for someone to be a theist Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, an atheist, or a Taoist. In those moments, I’m just being inspired and carried by the reality of the moment, which is something I find lacking here in this virtual space, so I resort to this theological, theistic register.

To put it in plain, salt-of-the-earth terms... I am looking for a MAN (the real deal, possessing exactly what I lack). 😉

Did I hit the nail on the head? 😁