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[MarshaV]

At 07:33 PM 2/1/2009, you wrote:
>Marsha,
>
>Found this and thought it relevant our discussion of theism being subject to
>scientific inquiry, and my point about relevance of 
>thesitic/scientific langauges:
>
>"My personal belief, from talking to physicists and trying to gauge 
>their level of
>understanding of Buddha's world is that they don't know anything. The whole
>stance of science is hostile to mysticism. The (physicists) may have 
>arrived at a
>rejection of objectivity but that isn't where they start from. No high school
>physics class begins with the statement "All the world is an 
>illusion" ...talking
>mysticism in a scientific community is like talking Judaism in Damascus. They
>may listen to you but it goes completely against the grain of their 
>education."
>
>(letter from Robert Pirsig to Anthony McWatt, March 29th, 1997)

Greetings Micheal,

I like the quote very much, but I do not think it is relevant to 
theism because mysticism is not dependent on theism.


Marsha





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