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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (12998)	7/16/2002 7:33:27 PM
From: vds4	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

i had the same question... got it on my first hit when i searched for the answer The Urantia Book Part I. The Central and Superuniverses PAPER 24: Section 2. The Census Directors P266:7, 24:2.1 Notwithstanding that the cosmic mind of the Universal Intelligence is cognizant of the presence and whereabouts of all thinking creatures, there is operative in the universe of universes an independent method of keeping count of all will creatures. P266:8, 24:2.2 The Census Directors are a special and completed creation of the Infinite Spirit, and they exist in numbers unknown to us. They are so created as to be able to maintain perfect synchrony with the reflectivity technique of the superuniverses, while at the same time they are personally sensitive and responsive to intelligent will. These directors, by a not-fully-understood technique, are made immediately aware of the birth of will in any part of the grand universe. They are, therefore, always competent to give us the number, nature, and whereabouts of all will creatures in any part of the central creation and the seven superuniverses. But they do not function on Paradise; there is no need for them there. On Paradise knowledge is inherent; the Deities know all things.

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (12998)	7/18/2002 10:37:34 AM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Will creatures (as described in the Urantia book) are creatures which: 1) feel and think (at some level all living creatures do) 2) ARE AWARE OF what they are thinking and feeling 3) On the basis of (2) exercise the faculty of FREE WILL to decide what "they" want and then act in some manner in accordance with that Items 2 & 3 are the cornerstone of the creation of "the ego" which is the framework for all "human" cognition. As Adi Da points out, a central characteristic of the ego is its sense of "separation" and "difference". On the other hand, thought and feeling arise IN Consciousness and NOT in the illusorily "separate" being. Confuse you enough? I like that Bakatcha! Sounds like a town in Asia Minor! Bakatcha! Namaste! Jim