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

To: epicure who wrote (8600)	12/8/2001 5:22:37 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Maybe a way to look at it is that you get to say (instead of choose). If not that, then perhaps we could say your life is what you say and do, or that you live with what you say and do. If you don't have a choice in the matter it's just luck how it comes to you. Maybe all of life, matter, consciousness, etc. is an illusion. Who knows? Maybe we know nothing at all. Maybe it does not matter at all either or any way. For my part I think it better to live like I have choice, and that choice matters. It appears to me I have a choice in the matter. Call it an illusion, or me disillusioned. It seems like experience and reality exist. It does not matter much whether we are talking about things we can touch or not, unless you want to exclude everything that is not material. We could completely eliminate any talk of god that way. You pays your money, you takes your chances. Choice is most often made in the state of "not knowing" for sure, completely and finally all the data one might like to have in choosing.

To: epicure who wrote (8600)	12/9/2001 8:08:27 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 28931

We ALL Have The Power of Choice.... >>Well they might get to decide if they have a choice in the matter. Then again choice might be an illusion. I certainly don't know.>> Chose to sing! Chose to smile! Chose to LIVE!! Just don't "claim" this power is from YOU. For all "power" is really "by appearance." We are allowed to "by appearance" to feel connected and ONE with any wave of energy or thought we "chose to receive." For all we all really are are conduits - openings through which a vast, infinite spiritual realiy can potentially express itself. PLO & GO!!