remote disposal, rictameter [ REVISION #1 ] Options

[JustDaniel]

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Do south

and north go on

as east and west, extend

forever?  ...or have both an end?

“removed our sins as far as east from west”

God has not said, “as far as north from south…”

What diff’rence does that make?

To see, just go

due south.


© Daniel J Ricketts 17 July 2005

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Do south
and north go on
as east and west, extend
indefinitely . . .  never end?
“removed our sins as far as east from west”
God has not said, “as far as north from south…”
What diff’rence does that make?
To see, just go
due south.

[JustDaniel]

Hi Daniel...

Thanks very much for your efforts at explaining.

I'm pleased that it is now more clear to you what my intention was.

The North pole riddle is, indeed, well known. But east and west do meet. For if one travells, say, west then one must evenually be in the east and vice-versa. So, ipso, facto, east and west must meet at two points. (They are, as Nina says), human constructs so have to be finite.

Yes, on ONE sense of the words, they do, as I already intimated above.  But as to their meaning as DIRECTION, they do NOT meet.  North and South do, and it is because of polarity.  As Arn cheerfully elucidated, when one flies north, eventually, given time, he'll be going south.  THAT and ONLY that is the point.  It's not all that obscure.  As to human constructs, so is our language.  It's pretty finite, isn't it.

As regards the religious message - sorry I don't understand that. Maybe it's simply a poor metaphor in the Bible?

Well, that is a bit of a pejorative remark. Interesting bit of literary crit of the Bible, huh? There is another observation that my father oft repeated to me in his self-educated, observant way: "There's none so blind as he who will not see."  I can think of several Biblical passages that elaborate on that subject, but enough said for this context.  After all, we're merely here to offer critique of the form and substance of the piece.

However, if it simply means that God is absolving us of sins, fair enough.

Yes, the point is merely that when God forgives something it isn't dredged up again.  Simple as that.  The absolution is not absolute, of couse.  It comes with a relationship, but again that's not for this forum.  Glad you see all that, James.

Hope that makes sense?

Cheers, J.

sensing your sense, and deLighing in the interchange, Daniel