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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (13075)	7/27/2002 9:05:36 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

If it were not pointless there would be no freedom and one cannot be free if there is an exogenous purpose to reality, for life is a process of creation, not discovery. I like what I think I got from your thoughts-gg. But this sentence is not clear to me. Are you saying that life is not discovery? What is the comparison between creation and discovery in relation to life? I am not sure that pointlessness and freedom are related in this way. You are saying that if there is a point then determinism naturally follows? It seems to me that if there is a god which does have some point in all this, we are obviously free to do what we want at the same time. Maybe you are taking the data and concluding then that there must be no point because everything that humans can imagine is believed, even lived out, and there are no apparent "ultimate" consequences?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (13075)	7/28/2002 9:05:01 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Back to your point about oneness/separateness, it seems we have both. I don't see why we must disallow our distinctiveness and individuality from each other in favor of some GUT. We are at the same time one and different-- distinct from each other individually, while at the same time being one in nature and spirit with everything that is. We can be in the process of becoming "one" with god without having to be god. Anyway, glad I checked back in with the thread to get into the gray matter a little again. Thanks.