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

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (13542)	5/13/2001 4:45:07 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Everything I see of the world leads me to feel we are all connected- and by "we" I mean the animate and the inanimate. After all, we are all in motion, the inanimate just isn't as "apparently" in motion. But the atoms move none the less. And an atom that was a rock, becomes part of an animal, then goes back to rock. This sort of fluidity makes me suspect that creator/creature would have the same fluidity- if there is such a thing as a creator. Whatever there is, or isn't, it seems to me it would all be connected and all be dynamic. But that's just the way the world appears to me.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (13542)	5/13/2001 11:56:24 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

I do not dwell on the caste system, I merely mention it... I don't recall characterizing anyone as being an hysterical Nirvana seeker. I said that I do not find the goal attractive myself. The goal of Heaven is intimacy with God, characterized variously in Judaism and different Christian denominations. It is not, however, submergence. The self remains intact, although glorified. The goal of baptism, as I understand it, is to provide a channel, or visible symbol, of grace. It is supposed to wash away part of the burden of Original Sin, and prepare one for sanctification. I am not a member of a Church. Whether the notion is abusable or not, I believe it is true, that only God can bridge the gap, not man. Anyway, both Hinduism and Buddhism have priests and temples, land and sages, too. Tibetan Buddhism, you may remember, was a theocracy.....