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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (19505)	3/17/2005 5:30:11 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"A killer in one life becomes a victim in the next, but that seems really, really cruel." I wouldn't worry about that. There is no evidence for the Buddhist philosophy overall. It is just that it is less indecent and cruel in the main than most attempts of ancient peoples to discern reality. Without credible historical "truths" of supernaturalism...there is little in rational thought to recommend it. Surely, we know very little--and perhaps most or ALL of what we know IS a reality of thought. Perhaps all order and all relationship IS simply a mechanism of mind. But empirical evidence is clear enough: All things change, all things die, all things lose identity. In the realm of Nature every leaf IS as important as every moth, cockroach, and human. And as Spinoza said...perhaps all these parts are God. Indeed--if there is a "God"--IT is EVERYTHING. I did not exist since the Big Bang...and perhaps an infinite number of big bangs. The earth might be one piece of tail in a cheap brothel in the middle of a galactic desert that never sleeps. I will never exist again--no more than a moth or a pig or a lion or a leaf exists again. But I won't care anymore than I did 4 billion years ago. I've loved beautiful women and I've done all (at least, most) of the things that appealed to me in life. I won an incredible lottery. It is more incredible (that you and I were born) than can even be imagined? I intend to treat that gift with respect and to honor it. How unfortunate (read the news) that the gift appears to be so indiscriminate?