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

[gav]

all beliefs contain a lie.

 one can have knowledge of ultimate reality. we have
access to that knowledge all the time. it is called
self-knowledge. 'gnothi se auton': know thyself. 

self-knowledge is obscured sometimes by that lesser
variety of knowledge - reason - that we often take as
being the only sort there is.

we don't need to invent fairytales, but they can be
fun....just as long as you remember that they are
allegorical.


--- MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> moq_discuss mailing list
> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.
>
http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org
> Archives:
>
http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/
> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
> 


Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com