I’ve got it in for the English language – sometimes it makes me so mad!
That we should have to dance around a simple statement lest the whole world misconstrue it!
You can look at a solitary wave and declare effusively “Behold the ocean!”
Was the wave being pretentious?
But you’d think the sky would fall if you said something so presumptuous as “I am God”!
What else could you be, given the fact that God is All?
I blame it on English rather than the idiots who deliberately choose to assign it such an asinine connotation.
I am the presence of God.
I am the be-ing of God.
I am the Light of God.
I am the action of God.
I am the feeling of God.
I am the Christ of God.
I am the I am of God.
I am the fullness of God.
Happy?
Always a gossamer veil … .

All of “this world” is nothing but Spirit, Light, Consciousness, God, the Infinite Invisible Oneness (use whichever synonym best clicks with you). When you stop looking from the “outside” of all these seeming physical and material, objectified appearances, and you look closer – with a “spiritual microscope” – all you find is Spirit, Life, Peace, Harmony, Joy, Light, Awareness, Abundance… the Oneness that is the REAL everything everywhere.

Yet the mind sees the One Allness “darkly” or “foggily”.

Paul F Gorman

HERE IS A GREAT LINGUISTIC OPPORTUNITY FOR US ALL:
[A] “Consciousness is All”
……………… VS. ……………..
[B] “Consciousness is Less than Awareness”

THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE SAME ISSUE AND LANGUAGE WANTS TO PLAY ‘BAD GUY’ BUT WE CAN SEE BEYOND THE SEEMING DISCREPANCY.

It’s like:
[a] “self” = ego & must be overcome
…………….. VS. ……………..
[b] “Self” = God & must be understood.

Let’s all take a bow to the almighty capital “S” vs small “s” !!! LOL

NOW PLEASE COMPARE:

[A] CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALL
Consciousness is All is a book on what is sometimes called Infinite Reality. The essence of the work is the fact that Consciousness (also known as the One Self, I Am, Love, Spirit, Life, the Divine, God, and other terms) is absolutely all there is of all there is. Only Consciousness exists—there is no existence apart from, or beyond, Consciousness. As Consciousness is All or One—It thus is not a higher Self, but the only Self. Reality is a matter of looking out from the Allness of the One Self, Consciousness, rather than looking up to It as a lesser consciousness or personal self. The Self never looks up to Itself—and the Self really is the only One being conscious or alive in the first place. One is free to enjoy being, rather than constantly struggling to become. Consciousness Is All is written from this “viewpoint.”
Peter Francis

[B] CONSCIOUSNESS vs. AWARENESS
Often these words are used interchangeably. They are NOT the same. Consciousness is an INTELLIGENT ENERGY; a state of being involving the awareness of existence. We all have consciousness to some extent, but not all of us are aware.
Awareness is an ACTIVE STATE OF BEING. We may have consciousness in several different dimensions, but we may be aware of only two or three of those dimensions.
EXPANSION of awareness means the ability to become simultaneously aware of more and more of our consciousness. If we are normally aware of the first THREE dimensions of reality, our goal may be to become aware of the other dimensions as well.
Sal Rachele
Life on the Cutting Edge

Phonetically speaking “I” is pronounced ai [ah-ee]. When “am” is joined (immediately following) a sneaky little y sound makes itself known (already in there, but coming out to play!) rendering “aiYam” [I Am].

I guess the best way to deal with a word like “created” is to recognize that it has two main connotations (most people disregard this and get tangled in terminology). God created man VS God as man. If God IS all, there’s nothing to create. If God created all, it’s saying the same thing as a SEEMINGLY two-step process. It would SEEM that JSG and ACIM disagree, but I say it’s merely a matter of semantics.

Empty vessel
to God I went
knowing I Am.

ENCOURAGEMENT re. EDUCATION
Early in my education pursuit I took a course in Philosophy and had to write a paper on Aristotle’s Physics. I found it unbelievably difficult and began to think that higher education was not for me. Then I heard in my spirit “You can do it. Take it one line at a time and discuss what it means to you.”
I obeyed this directive: ONE LINE AT A TIME. Within a few hours I had the whole paper written and got an “A” on it. I got an “A” in the course too which meant so much to me because I had been tempted to give up but persevered instead, with no outside help.

The thing Ive found is that, overall, debate really doesn’t do anything for the two people debating. It just hardens them into defending a position rather than having a conversation.

I think Facebook debating tends to be pointless and wastes everyones time. The one who jumps on thinks they made a good point to counter the post but to what end? What difference does it make? It doesnt change the mind of the original post-er 99% of the time and it only strokes the ego of the one who has to “speak their mind.”

Now a conversation about a topic we disagree on… with a friend… I thoroughly enjoy. The rest, IMO, is just a waste.

If the goal is really communication and understanding then debating on Facebook will never accomplish it.

You are free to disagree, lol.
~Chuck Crisco

There are those who get a charge out of disrupting any and every sensitive point one is trying to get across. They love to turn everything into a quarrel rather than the sharing of a discovery.
RJS

Debates ought to conform to the topic initially raised. For example, if the topic is “how to become prosperous”, sixteen or so biblically-based arguments on the morality or amorality of gaining money would not be suitable imho.
RJS

WOULDN’T ENGLISH BE WONDERFUL IF :

■ C were eliminated, using K,S

■ Ph ” ” ” F

■ G ” only used as in “Good”

■ H ” eliminated when silent

■ J supplanted soft G

■ Q were eliminated, using Kw

■ X ” ” ” Ks

■ Y ” ” ” vowels

(Dr. Robin Starbuck)