[MD] atheistic and content

[Ham Priday]

Greetings, Marsha --


> The Buddhists have it correct.  There is no inherently existing self.
>  ... The 'I', 'self', 'me' and 'mine' are conventional inventions,
> and should not be confused as being absolutely real.

If I am not my self, whose self am I?  Convention's?

> Epistemology is a conceptional system, rationally constructed.

Who's concept and who's reason constructs it?

> What if freedom lay outside the boundaries of a rationally
> constructed epistemology?

What would Freedom be outside the boundaries of a relational universe in 
process?   To be free, one must have the option to change his situation or 
the objects and events in his world.  That requires a space/time 
environment.

> I will say that the YOU exists, but within a conventionally
> constructed reality.

What is a "conventionally constructed" reality, and how is it different than 
actual reality -- the physical world YOU and I exist in?

If the universe and its compoents were free, atoms and molecules, genes, and 
energy could go off in all directions, making the laws of physics a sham and 
creating chaos instead of an orderly system.  YOU and I would probably never 
even have made it into such a reality.

(But keep thinking!)

--Ham