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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1834)	10/19/2000 11:41:31 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Radical atheism is bit far-fetched for me.... I'm rather agnostic, that is to say that I wholeheartedly reject all past and current creeds (Christianism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, etc.) but I still favor an "Open Door" policy.... My philosophical opinion about a superior spirit is that "God" is actually a Janus-like deity --a dual entity/personality. So I view "him" as a sempiternal clash between Absolute Sense and Absolute Nonsense. I don't believe in the Good/Bad divide --that's anthropomorphic crap.... Beyond "good and bad" lies "Sense and Non-Sense". I mean, think about it, Tiger: what most people can't cope with is not some adverse, bad hardship but rather the apparent absurdity of such hardship! Hence the real crux of the matter is not about sorting out good and bad things but about finding out the hidden Sense concealed in those things, and, ultimately, the Absolute Sense that transcends them all.... Besides, here's a good read: The End of Time The Next Revolution in Physics JULIAN BARBOUR A revolutionary new theory that attacks one of the foundation stones of science--the existence of time Richard Feynman once quipped: "Time is what happens when nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change that we perceive occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist. [snip] oup-usa.org