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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (27031)8/30/2009 5:18:16 PM
From: koan   of 28931
 
I don't know how it works, only my mind before and after. When I didn't see it and when I did. I see the idea as it exists in relation to the worlds cultures and realities.

The best explanation might be when John Stewart at the end of each program says: "now your moment of Zen". We all know what he is talking abotu, but would have a hard time explaining it.

Maybe an analogy would be the forth diminsion time. All through history no one saw time until Einstein. And he saw it, he said so. Understanding time made all of Newtons equations work perfectly

Another analogy might be people living in a two diminsional world. If one person stands up into the 3rd diminsion, the people in the two dimisional world think he disappeared.

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And, by the way, thank you for your personalized take on existentialism. It has made me think (a lot). But you treat it as though it were knowable (or understandable) as a "three diminsional abstract concept"--which most fail to know or to "understand".

I went down and got myself a bottle of scotch (and drank it)in order to solve this puzzle, but I'm still struggling with your meaning. I think this is the first time I have seen the words "three diminsional abstract concept") lined up in a row--where reason is a mere myth and one must simply feel or act or think of something to do?

But leaving aside the source of your opinions (reason, logic, intuition, the speed of a shoe)--I guess you are reifying an abstract concept if you give it dimensions (sic)--but WHAT are you reifying? Life? Existence? Meaning? Mind? ... or just the IDEA of existentialism???
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