[MD] Catching up to Pirsig

[MarshaV]

At 12:07 PM 4/19/2009, you wrote:


>[KO]
>I agree, i dont credit the idea of a conscious creator nor that a rock has
>consciousness either - i think consciousness is merely a fortune telling
>device in the shape of a human that has been developed through natural
>selection over millions of years - its purpose is to ensure survival.
>Purpose HAS arisen from the ashes! The 'why' of it is obvious to me, the
>'how' is much more mysterious.
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>[Krimel]
>Right, although I would say "...it's "function" is to ensure survival."
>Living things are fires that can find their own fuel. We create the ashes we
>arise from.

Sorry, but this happens to be a perfect place to implant Nietzsche's words:

   Yes, I know from where I came!
   Ever hungry like a flame,
    I consume myself and glow.
    Light grows all that I conceive,
    Ashes everything I leave:
    Flame I am assuredly.
         (Ecco Homo, The Gay Science)


>[KO]
>I just end by saying - God is my aspiration!
>
>[Krimel]
>LOL, well said. I think "God" is what is emerging from the expansion of
>awareness. He too is the product of evolution; not the source.

HE???   Right, and in America the pioneers went West taking their 
wives.   Does one ever pull themselves out of the baloney?

Aspiration like in breath?  Psyche originally meant breath.


Marsha


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