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To: JohnM who wrote (192161)	6/20/2012 11:36:18 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 543811

Alright I appreciate it. Let me gradually polk around in this. Don't want to get knee deep in it though. Just enough to see where, essentially , they are coming from. On the bright side this weather should turn the tomatoes red.

To: JohnM who wrote (192161)	6/20/2012 12:51:16 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543811

OK I've read Wiki's summary of Tillich's writings and his answer, I think, to the despair of some existentialist writers (meaningless) is that God is the "ground of {all} being" and therefore partakes even of despair and meaningless as they too are ways of "being". Therefore, this God is above and outside human "being" and this gives us meaning inasmuch as this "ground of being" has provided for our existence. Furthermore, for Christians this "God above God" (outside human definitions of God) has transcended its state of being into ours, thru Christ, and communicated our "existence" to us, thru him, and thus given us a reason "to be". In other words: "Don't worry, be happy". (G) en.wikipedia.org