Re: THEORY: Languages divided by politics and religion

>From: Danny Wier <dawier@...>
>The differentiation of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian (I don't believe there
>is much of a "Montenegrin" language or even dialect) of course came as a
>result of politics and religion.  Simultaneously, they are one langauge and
>they are three languages.  A "trinity", if you wanna call it such.
Well, I better take that back.  Most Christians believe in one God in three
Persons, thus the Trinity, from "tri-unity".  The three Persons are equal in
divinity and all agree in every way.  The three languages once
blanket-labled as Serbo-Croatian, on the other hand, are the languages of
three nations that not too long ago were at each others' throats.

Tom asked what should be the definition of a "person".  It's easy to assume
that's synonomous with a singular human being.  But in psychiatry, what if
you have the unfortunate case of multiple personalities (the disorder is now
called Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID; schizophrenia is in no way a
"split personality disorder" as it is a psychotic disorder, meaning a
disruption of one's perception and reasoning which might mimic a personality
change).  It would then be possible for one to determine that God has DID
since he's one being with three persons, if you assume that "person" is
synonomous with "personality".  After all, God relates to mankind in three
ways through His three Persons: the Father the Creator, the Son the Savior,
and the Holy Spirit the Sustainer.  (Hinduism has a very similar concept of
OM, the pantheistic notion of Godhead and Godhood -- Brahma, Vishnu and
Shiva, though the functions of the three are different and these are
regarded as three gods, not one god in three persons, personalities, or even
manifestations or titles of address.)

The notion of a Trinity more correctly refers to a notion of a complete,
holistic Deity, and a Church built on that foundation which is both visible
and invisible, both temporal and spiritual.

(getting off soapbox)

DaW.
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