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

To: Solon who wrote (7495)	5/21/2001 7:32:57 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Got home late, and caught the program on replay , just as it went on to cover Islam ( surrender )... Need to see it again in it's entirety...but as they showed the Islamic " Faithful " from above and up close circling the Ka'bah , my first superconscious thought was one of man needing a center & orientation ... Centering , orienting in maturing...the truth of ourselves more or less , is as the Russian mystic Gurdjief noted , that man is mostly a machine capable of only the illusion of awareness. Or as the ancient Yogis saw we are all asleep/lost in the dream of our own personal illusions or Maya's..., and they saw the goal of life to awaken from the dream. The allegory for God , would be one of that intense Practice and Art that would lead to the humming of a finer melody internally...one could say that the experience of God is chiefly due to good and compassionate " sentience management "....(and as for Einstein, playing better violin.) as we all must travel through the field of time and joy and sorrow. But with every new mighty thing we create that holds our attention for a little while ...it is never enough. If you look at the naked truth of who we are as the good philosophical medical doctor sees... over 70,000 miles of nervous sytem , in an almost incomprehensible reality of what makes each one of us up, just physically. And there is wisdom in the good medical doctors pagan oath of "do no harm " , which is also the ancient foundation for what we mistakenly call Hinduism of India, where it really all began. ( which is the mother to Buddhism, Christianity , Islam etc) Ultimately , like Joseph Campbell says: Follow your Bliss ...for if you are not doing that , then you are not doing much . ;-) Mars PS: hope I get to see the first 1 1/2 hrs of the program <g> An interesting thing about humility and compassion somtimes, which show up in most all religions earliest in Hinduism , is that with more awareness , comes more compassion. There is an equivalent of a universal inverse square law at play here somewhere...;-)