Remember the Police? We Are Spirits in the Material World. They were too cool. Isabelle got me a DVD of all their videos the Christmas before last. Walking on the Moon, So Lonely, etc. They perk me right up.
But how about it? How often does anyone really recognize either of these paradoxes (Being Spirits in the Material World or being Materials in the Spiritual World)? It's so easy just going along being material in the material world.
Last night we went to Target, and I browsed the Blu-Ray selection, which I last visited before Christmas so we would have a few good flicks for our new Blu-Ray player that we got for Christmas to go along with our new HD TV. Most movies were 24.99, 29.99 or 34.99, which was OK for Christmas, but more than I wanted to pay. Then, there it was: T2, $14.99. That's Arnold. Schwarzenegger. In his prime. #73 on imdb.com's top 250. I already have The Terminator, on DVD (#188). A no-brainer, right? Less than the price of 2 tickets to the actual movies for a high-def version of one of my favorite movies of all time, which we can watch on a projector with surround sound.
$16 (with tax). So we can stay home and watch it for 2+ hours, every once in a while. Oh and so we can watch the first one for 2 hours also just prior, most likely, also.
Does anyone else have a budget? We do. That's our material contract with ourselves. But it's a bit preposterous, isn't it? How many people in the world never see $16 at one time? That just slid right into our disposable income. I don't want to think about it.
Oh, and that time we spend watching our movies, that comes from our calendar, which is another contract with ourselves. And (gulp!) it's more spiritual than material! I really don't want to think about this one.
It's so much easier being reactive than pro-active. What must we pay? Bills! What must we do? Change diapers! But wait--why am I watching TV?
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It's important to remember that recreation is kind of a Christian idea (Sabbath day is for rest and recreation actually). But like many things in life, do it in moderation.
Also remember that the spirit/material distinction is more Greek and Gnostic and not really biblical. Jesus was resurrected bodily for example (and so will we be).
We are both spiritual and material, and our world is both spiritual and material. But I don't believe our thoughts, awareness and actions are both, equally all the time. The Matrix (#31) provides an excellent analogy. "Wake up, O sleeper!"
Yes, agreed. We are both spiritual and material. However, the distinction of the Police song, that our spirits are caught in a material world, conveys the Greek/Gnostic idea that the material is bad and only the spiritual is good. This is an unbiblical idea.
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