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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (9164)	1/3/2002 4:02:50 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Understanding vs. Denial.... >>All love begins and ends in self love. What I find curious is why you try to deny yourself to find yourself. CWG observes that what you resist persists. Thus the more fervently you deny the ego the more strongly will it grip you.>> They are two separate things..... I "understand" that the nature of my ego, ALL egos, to be totally, completely and utterly insane. This understanding doesn't equate to any form of "denial". Sure you may argue that in "denying the insanity of my ego" I will fall victim to it. But we are all given reason and understanding direct from our creator to offset such nonesense. If, on the other hand, I am claiming "to create" and be the author of this kind of "understanding' then you are right, I will fall victim to the same insanity that's behind more of these egoic illusions that make claims for things which cannot be supported logically or rationally. Remember, I make ZERO/NO claims to have "created" anything!! All understanding and all truth is simply part of an infinite process "of receiving and sharing" His Energy, Light and Love freely and unconditionally. FREEDOM = LOVE The ZERO/NO claim reality. 119293!!

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (9164)	1/4/2002 9:54:50 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

It is ego that makes us think we are right, I think. And it is ego that makes us want to share our rightness. Even when we are submerging what we think is our ego in a group we are still driven be our egos to that submersion. In the end we do seem to be ourselves, no matter how much we do not want to be, and no matter how annoying that fact may be to ourselves and others. Death may be the only escape for the ego (and of course some find that possibility terribly alarming). I don't say it is, but since it is not really testable in this life, it may be. I have never seen any man escape their ego in this life- and the men that protest the loudest about their egolessness seem to have really big egos- so I guess they doth protest too much.