Coming out to my Catholic dad (about being a Taoist)

Just because someone uses the word God to communicate doesnt automatically mean they are referring to the fantasy god. It is this limitation you put on what the word God means that causes you to say such things. Maybe by God someone means the force of Nature? Maybe by God they mean that which the word Tao is used for but were not raised in China and never read the Tao Te Ching?
It is transcendental and to be so wrapped up around a word and what it means in everyone's mind is to only limit yourself.

 

Dude i will never give up call it OM and i would totally agree but god is an ignorant arab concept period. You cant claim its something else cause thats why we have words. Religions have different words for god because of a totally different concept. By saying there is a God and not believing in the original western arab concept you are perpetuating the ignorance. i know OM but i dont know any god, the mystic Jews who experienced the OM interpreted it as god but in my experience there was no god there, just consciousness made of bliss.

 

How to teach dog mathematics? It cannot be done. Maybe it is something totally different from our speculations. Dog can have a short feeling about existence of mathematics but that will not make him possible to understand even multiplication and division.
But dog don't need to know mathematics and human is interested with Dża.
'Real name of God cannot be spoken'

 

This brings to mind "...a rose by any other name..."
But then, there is selfish love and then there is impersonal love.
God bless.

 

Why are you stuck on semantics?

What you are attempting to discuss runs much deeper than an arrangement of letters.