User:Admin/Key Concepts Grab Bag

• Spirit is not innately divine
• There's no such thing as magic
• Four degrees of evil and sin

Study Approach/Life Advice

• Distinguish ideas versus ideals.
• Practice wholehearted devotion to supreme values, with unquestioning loyalty.
• Let go
• Fear not. Though only if you're not in darkness. If you're in darkness, you need the fear of the Lord. [149:6.5]
• Do this and you will have real peace that passes all understanding‏‎
• The problem with anti-‏‎. Be for things, not against things.

• Quid est veritas?. It isn't words on a page, it must be lived.
• Discover, recognize, interpret, and choose. Recognize: A place that precedes analysis. Delay analysis and interpretation.

• Be sophistry proof

• Strive to be a second miler. Don't assume you are one.
  • Be unnatural, that is, artful (artificial)
  • Don't be a helpless victim of antecedent causation
  • Be more than a fancy animal.
  • Natural versus artificial
  • Do better than your built-in error and evil detector
  • Be a human, not a computer
  • Transcend, don't repress

Essential concepts/analogies/metaphors

• Plan Z is often called for, after Plans A-Y failed to meet the evolutionary moment.
• Revelation versus evolution
• Revolution versus evolution

• Back door versus front door analogy as it relates to experiential deity.
• False dichotomy
  • Both eyes open
• The value is in the potentiality, not the actuality‏‎
• Time is an appearance, not a reality
• Positive response to a negative stimulus
• Pain and suffering are essential to progressive evolution
• Preservation, observation, and conservation
• Place versus direction
• Perfect versus perfecting
• Happiness versus joy
• Quality versus quantity
• Mind made and personality managed
• Ill-humor versus ill-will‏‎, avoid hatred because it is self-destructive
• Pride goes before a fall
• Parenting advice because family is the nucleus of civilization
• Choice versus decision
• Appearance versus reality
• Fact versus truth
• Ideas versus ideals
• Unity versus uniformity
• Sight versus insight

Sociological observations

• We are no longer in sheltered bays‏‎, so more is expected of us in these times.
• Don't limit yourself to the ignorance of others
• None is so blind as he who will not see‏‎

• Society, culture, and civilization
• The indispensables to civilization

Additional Important Concepts

• Commandments
• Hemisphere analogy‏‎
• Origin, history, and destiny‏‎
• Matter, mind, and spirit
• Look before leaping‏‎
• Spirit is a substance‏‎
• Tornado through a junkyard‎

• Infinity has consequences
• Capital-J Judges‏‎
• Creator versus creature. Hint: you're a creature.
• End from the beginning‏‎
• Every moment is a divine dispensation‏‎
• God's infinite and eternal nature‏‎
• In supremacy, there are no coincidences‏‎
• Kindred spirits versus kindred minds‏‎
• Self-assertion versus free will‏‎
• Through the looking glass of Deity.
• Will, action, and purpose‏‎
• Wisdom, insight, and foresight‏‎
• 6th century B.C.‏‎

• Doing versus being
• Error, evil, sin, and iniquity. Error is falsehood given form in your mind‏‎
• Personality versus temperament
• True monogamy
• Ours is a universe of motion, not fundamentally a universe of matter.

• Change without growth is potential evil
• Facets of cosmic character
• Gospel of the kingdom
• What is human experience? Active and questioning selves required!
• Suddenly
• The meaning of life is its adaptability
• The mind of perfect poise
• The observer is not the thing observed
• This is the way
• Deity and reality explained with a two sides of your hand analogy

Language Discrimination

• Chance versus luck
• Chaos versus cosmos
• Temperament versus character
• Compassion versus sympathy. The former is in the inner life. The latter in expressed in the outer life.
• Courage versus bravery
• Created equal versus born equal
• Deity versus reality
• Egoism versus altruism
• Equality versus equity
• Essence versus substance‏‎
• Ethical versus moral
• Faith and trust versus trust and faith
• Faith versus belief
• Form versus substance
• God-consciousness versus God-knowingness
• Good versus evil
• Intention versus motivation
• Inventive versus creative
• Liberty versus freedom
• Personality itself versus the personalized self
• Progress versus growth
• Religious experience versus spiritual experience
• Ubiquitous versus omnipresent
• Urge versus impulse

• Fear, dread, awe, and reverence
• Folkways, mores, and morals
• Just, fair, patient, kind, and merciful‏‎
• Prayer, worship, and thanksgiving
• Truth, beauty, and goodness

Things that came up but didn't become "key"

• Levels of mortal wisdom
• 12 properties of a religionist‏
• Conditions of effective prayer
• Seven levels of salvation
• Seven psychic circles
• The twelve
• Three great satisfactions‏‎
• Mota
• Fourteen facets of Deity

• Be a loyal tadpole
• Strive to be in a parallel stream first, then engage the mainstream.
• The Urantia Book, The Urantia Papers, and the Fifth epochal revelation
• Uncertainty with security
• Acquire a long-distance view‏‎
• Believing in versus believing with Jesus‏‎
• Pilate's greatest hits
• Take your salvation for granted. But only if it's safe to do so, only if you seek God's righteousness.
• Human sources for the authors of The Urantia Book.
• A coordination is a system of associations