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

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (10531)	2/11/2002 8:36:34 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

People self-declare or self-diagnose themselves to be "good" or "bad." Many different things are meant by such declarations: self-image, relative comparison to others, "I feel good", I'm o.k. you are/are not o.k., etc. It is difficult to know what is meant at any given time. What is interesting to me is whether we can experience unmediated access to god. By "mediated" I mean something like the little engine that could. The idea is we can get ourselves to god. People who think so often declare themselves to be "good". I cannot imagine it because god is qualitatively too different. In addition, we are more interested in our own realities and experiences. So we by nature resist compromising our nature in favor of another's. This requires us to acknowledge dependence or a deficiency in that area. Those who are "good" are not interested in that idea. That is a stab at what I mean by it.