[MD] Religious experience & thinking in an MOQ context

[David M]

Scott

That's you, I feel fine, and sure things be-come and things
be-go and be-gone, but the trick is not to worry about it
too much, and to try to help other people let go of their fear
and inexplicable guilt. This is the re-freshing power of DQ.

DM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Roberts" <jse885 at localnet.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Religious experience & thinking in an MOQ context


> David M,
>
> DM said [to SA];
> I would simply say that religion was about how to
> live your life and how to come to terms with existence
> as we find it. We are thrown as innocents into existence,
> we find beauty, creation, destruction and death and constant change.
> We must die ourselves. Before that we need to live together on this
> singular plane. What else is there?
>
> Scott:
> I disagree. I think James was correct when he characterized religion as 
> (I'm
> paraphrasing) (a) the recognition that there is something fundamentally
> wrong with us (e.g. Original Sin, Buddhist Ignorance, Hindu Maya), and (b)
> that dealing with this wrongness, because it is fundamental, involves
> something beyond "existence as we find it" (for Christians, God's Grace, 
> for
> Buddhists, mystical insight, etc.).
>
> - Scott
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