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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (13536)	5/13/2001 3:56:36 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

"It" could be about all sorts of things. Of course, given the rigidity of the caste system and the support given to it through the doctrine of reincarnation, I would hesitate to accuse any other religion of using doctrines about the afterlife as a means of social control. As for the goal, well, some people find the notion of Nirvana desirable. I do not. The idea of loss of self as a goal, even if the result is infinite bliss, does not comport with my sense of the proper disposition of things. Nor do I believe that my true self, my atman, is God. I believe in an infinite gap between Creator and Creature, that can only be bridged through the benevolence of the Creator. That may mean that I have limited understanding, of course. Or it may be true.