[MD] tiny skull... change... nothingness...

[MarshaV]

At 03:29 AM 11/12/2006, Ham wrote:

>Hi SA and Marsha --
>
>
>Try to focus on what I said.  (I didn't even mention experience.)  I'll try
>to simplify it.  We can NOT KNOW the truth about ultimate reality.
>Therefore, we have a choice.  We can either believe that ultimate reality is
>Nothingness -- which is to deny an ultimate reality, or we can believe that
>it is Absolute -- which is to believe in a primary source (i.e., Oneness,
>Essence, Being, or God).  In the theistic language of Pascal, the winning
>bet is that God is.  What is so difficult about Pascal's wager?  He's saying
>that if we believe in a transcendent God, we have everything to gain and
>nothing to lose; conversely, if we believe in nothing, we have nothing to
>gain and everything to lose.


Huh?  Why the fairytale to drag you down?  Nothing is more real than 
nothing, and besides, I thrive on it.