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07-17-2012, 11:06 PM
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| Senior Member  Joined: Dec 2010 From: Australia Posts: 2,056 | The understanding of man vs prophets
I drew this and calling it the 'sphere of understanding'. Anyone can give there opinion but what I appreciate is critical feadback or comments showing insight. In fact mostly I care about these days is increasing my insight and you should too... so here it is... The letters A,B,C,D etc are personality types that make people see things differently... Obviously this is not how reality is truely, it is oversimplified for the sake of a diagram... http://imageshack.us/f/27/sphereofunderstanding.jpg/ |
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07-18-2012, 07:56 AM
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| Senior Member  Joined: Jun 2009 From: earth Posts: 382 |
How do you define prophethood?
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07-18-2012, 09:04 AM
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| Senior Member Joined: Dec 2010 From: Australia Posts: 2,056 |
A messenger. Someone sent by God. Baha'u'llah Jesus Ezekel Job Muhammad Isaih Jacob Joseph Abraham Salih Solomon David... etc Prophets in Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia To be honest I am having second thoughts about created this thread and how useful it will be to people but anyway too late now... And as for a diagram ppl can easily pick holes in it so what use is it anyway?? |
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07-18-2012, 09:41 AM
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| Cloaked Star  Joined: Mar 2011 From: san diego Posts: 210 |
I'm interested to see what you have put together but I can't see the image at a right size to read anything. It may be just me but try uploading the image on another site as well.
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07-18-2012, 10:11 AM
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| Senior Member  Joined: Nov 2010 From: EARTH Posts: 334 |  i kinda get where you are going with the diagram, however, some questions arrive. why only A to N? why is prophet-hood surrounded by idle fancy? what surrounds idle fancy? nothing? a little more expectation on the diagram please my good man, it is interesting. |
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07-18-2012, 06:36 PM
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| Senior Member Joined: Dec 2010 From: Australia Posts: 2,056 |
1.A-N is arbitrary. It could be A-Z or whatever one might choose... 2.Cos Baha'u'llah was surrounded by idle fancy of the people around him... 3.Understanding is either truth or idle fancy or a mixture of the two... 4. Each pie slice sees a different slice of the "pie of truth" But the prophet sees it all. Thats why people clash at Bahai meetings. They are seeing different aspects of truth.. Each slice of pie is a different personality type. Abdul'Baha explains that the different sects of Christianity arose due to peoples various personality types. For example people who are more scholarly tend to lean towards a trinitarian understanding of God rather than people who are not (from my understanding). The scholarly people wanted to categorise things so they created the trinity thinking it would explain truth. It is not completely wrong but is not completely right... It is supposed to be a circle but apparently I dont know how to draw one so it looks more squashed then its supposed to.. |
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07-18-2012, 09:20 PM
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| Senior Member Joined: Nov 2010 From: EARTH Posts: 334 |
so it is like unity of minds. cool idea, makes sense. i agree with it. |
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07-18-2012, 10:24 PM
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| Senior Member Joined: Dec 2010 From: Australia Posts: 2,056 | Quote:
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07-19-2012, 03:47 PM
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| Senior Member  Joined: Sep 2010 From: Louisiana Posts: 1,725 | I am now thinking
After a spiritual crisis which is not over I now believe I have been fooling myself about my spiritual development and have not done enough. At this stage of life it is very hard to change things.
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07-19-2012, 05:41 PM
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| Senior Member Joined: Dec 2010 From: Australia Posts: 2,056 | Quote:
 Perhaps that thought falls into the grey area on my chart...  | |
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