I WAS NEVER going to speak about this; But since I told one person, and have been criticized/terrorized by several, I thought possible I’m being prompted to share.
I was watching Ancient Aliens (AA), And they were talking bout jinns, they were relating them to the Middle East (the source point for at least 4 major religions).
And I thought, I wonder if there is a possibility that what ?a lot? “Of” people consider to be god is actually a jinn?
An image of The burning/non-burning bush associated with Moses that was part of the AA episode was a key trigger for this thought.
If it is true, it could possible change humanity's viewpoint on god/religion. Others might just say, It's about time somebody else noticed. LOL
And if you want to call me a blasfemur (sp meant)....you know after being beaten so many times and threatened with death, which is going to happen anyway (more than likely), what difference does it make, I'll be dead either sooner or later. So why not live and see who cares (paraphrase from The Who)
Oh yeah, my God is so BIG, this stuff is just children crying....
Speaking of Jinn ...
Why Bible accurate angels are so creepy ...
In the 'So, what's The Good Word' Newsletter the other day.
Had forgotten about the word "trilemma" (had I ever heard of it, though?)
• trilemma •
Pronunciation: tri-lem-ê
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A difficult choice between three equally unappealing alternatives.
Notes: We often face dilemmas in life, less often trilemmas. A dilemma originally referred to a decision based on only two choices that lead to equally undesirable outcomes. Similarly, a trilemma is a three-way decision with no acceptable outcome. The meaning of dilemma, however, has been generalized to mean any difficult decision with no positive outcome. We should avoid using dilemma to simply refer to a tough problem: teenage pregnancy is not a dilemma but a problem.
In Play: The classic trilemma is the one pointed out by the Greek philosopher Epicurus and faced by those who approach religion logically:
If God is unable to prevent evil, he is not omnipotent.
If God is not willing to prevent evil, he is not good.
If God is willing and able to prevent evil, then why is there evil?
(This is why religion is a faith, not a logical conclusion.) Of course, we occasionally face trilemmas in our regular lives: "If I go fishing with dad, mom will get mad; if I stay home and clean my room, dad will be mad; if I don't do either, both will get mad—and I can't do both things!"
Word History: Today's Good Word was created by analogy with dilemma from Greek dilemma "double proposition". Dilemma comes from from di- "two" + lemma "premise, proposition"; tri simply means "three" in Greek. Lemma comes from root of lambanein "to take", used in the sense of "understand" as to take a gesture as an act of kindness or to mistake a gesture as an act of kindness. The root of Greek lambanein was (s)lag- with a Fickle S that does not show up in Greek. It also did not show up in Old English laeccan "grasp, seize", either. That word traveled down to us today as latch. (There is no trilemma here; we have to thank Tony Bowden of the Alpha Agora for suggesting today's often forgotten word no matter what the outcome of our decision.)
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the root of the word God comes from a verb meaning "to invoke" and/or "to pour."
Jinn is the same as the word genie.
Jean = John = Johann = Ionnes = "Yahweh is gracious"
What did Jean Cocteau think of the jinn? What did he think of the genie? What about Eugene? What about Genesis?
It has a nice sound whatever form it's poured into or invoked ...
I think of the song by Steel Pulse with the line 'I am the genie of your lamp' ...
Also ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto's reinterpretation of the Stephen Foster classic that is so dreamy called Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
... dreamy ...
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Bill's mum and my mum had Jean in their names ...