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

To: t2 who wrote (15946)	9/26/2003 9:20:47 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"How could one transfer their experiences to another? Can't happen as far as I know." In Canada, the English and the French are sometimes referred to as "two solitudes". I think people represent inumerable solitudes. When I spoke of boundaries, however, I did not mean impermeable boundaries. Clearly people can build bridges of reason and feeling between one another; and they can experience a commonality that is akin to oneness. However, for this to be healthy there must still be a recognition that it is a sharing rather than an ownership. In psychosis this distinction does not exist. There is no "other"; or if there is it has no value--neither through reason nor through empathic identification. What makes "love" virtuous is that it has a separate (non-self) object. It is not simply the reflection in a pool...