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To: Rick Julian who wrote (79824)5/24/2000 10:37:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
Perhaps. But I see no great mystery surrounding existence.

It is not in my nature to wonder why I am here, or what will happen to me after I die: it seems a bit of a waste of time to wonder over questions which I know I cannot answer. I know that I exist, as I define existence, and that I wish to make all of that existence that I can, according to my own priorities. That is enough.

Remember the three stages of human inquiry:

1. How do we eat?
2. Why do we eat?
3. Where shall we have lunch?

I prefer the third stage.



To: Rick Julian who wrote (79824)5/24/2000 10:46:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Respond to of 108807
 
One of the loveliest dogma catchers I ever heard came from the movie Contact. (My favorite movie of all time. For now.)
Jodie Foster telling why she got expelled from Sunday school - for asking questions like "Where did Mrs. Cain come from?"



To: Rick Julian who wrote (79824)5/24/2000 10:54:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
There are no mysteries in complete consciousness- or at least there are no mysteries as we humans understand the term- if you are talking about Buddhism.

I believe that the Buddhist writings I have read say that when you become enlightened, you will understand everything- creation, destruction, existence, everything. No mysteries. If that's what you were talking about.

But maybe you weren't talking about that kind of complete consciousness.