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

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4741)	12/12/2000 11:00:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I don't believe in complete understanding. I can see it as something to strive for, as an ideal, but I can't see anyone, even Buddha, ever attaining it.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4741)	12/12/2000 11:13:37 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Absolutes (like Complete Understanding) probably don't exist, IMO. All things seem relative at all scales. There is probably "Good Enough Understanding" but that doesn't have the same authoritative ring as Complete Understanding.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4741)	12/12/2000 11:30:30 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

This is an interesting statement. What constitutes "Complete Understanding", if anyone would like to hazard a guess or definition? Part of it might be ... rather than going to the mountaintop, practicing asceticism and renouncing the world and hearing the great "voice" it may have been "I have been to the Monkey Cage , and communned with our ancestors and learned to laugh." ;-)

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4741)	12/13/2000 12:14:00 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

This is an interesting statement. What constitutes "Complete Understanding", if anyone would like to hazard a guess or definition? Thank you for not putting those words in my mouth! Most of us here fight cleanly. You fit right in! Given the premises, I find nothing outside of the conceivable in the phrase. Perhaps when one comprehends the ultimate energy from which all forms derive...it is equivalent to complete understanding. Perhaps that is true whether or not anyone ever has reached such an understanding. I think it is fair to say, that only one having attained such an understanding, could possibly evaluate the question! (But we can still yak about it...throw a spear--shoot a cannon)!