On Feb 25, 9:34 pm, "Ganesh J. Acharya" <
ganeshjacha...@gmail.com>
No problem for you, no doubt. If I too may ask a question, why do
atheistic Jews adopt Hindu identities in usenet these days? This
question may be considered rhetorical.
> We have a brain and we get ideas.
>
> Where are the ideas from?
From God, if they are good. If they are not, they are the products of
our own whims and egos, other peoples' manipulations, our
misunderstandings of nature, etc.
>Are the ideas ours?
Yes, if we adopt them. They are also original if no one thought of
them before, but that is up to the patent office, public opinion, etc.
to decide if it is so important.
> We know the source?
It is a question of attribution, and that depends upon the
individual's honesty and humility. To pass off another's idea as
one's own, is very common indeed in this our world of lies, run by
einsteinian liars. The honest and humble person of faith, will
acknowledge his good ideas to come from the Divine.
> So, why not keep the source "UNKNOWN" if one is unable to identify,
Because that would be an atheistic ploy, for the spiritual person of
faith. And so, impossible for him. The theistic person of ideas,
jolly well identifies God or the Divine to be responsible for all the
good ideas, and the good resulting from same.
> is that not truth?
What is truth to the believer, the spiritual person of faith, is
untruth to the atheist.
> DO we know the functioning of idea-ting for certain???
With faith, certainly. All good ideas come from God by definition,
and in practice from prayer and work. Without faith, there is always
doubt. Now, faith in God moves mountains, does enormous good, creates
the golden ages of history while doubt creates chaos and monsters
arising from them.
> Why take the product of "UNKNOWN" as ours?
Because it *is* ours, as we got it with a mixture of God's blessing
for our own hard work and clear thought, good morals etc. Atheists can
never have any good original ideas, for no atheist ever had a really
good original idea - but being parasites they use the good ideas from
God's blessed, twisting and turning them somehow, to satisfy some
destructive or pointless whim or ego of their own. That much shallow
wit, they do possess, and spend upon various sorts of sarcasms,
backbiting, caricaturing, etc.
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee