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

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (23699)	5/27/2006 4:34:23 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<The Riddle of Epicurus> He missed the point... there is no evil... it was just his viewpoint. :) DAK

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (23699)	5/28/2006 1:35:42 PM
From: Solid	Respond to of 28931

Epi curus Epi as a prefix- upon Upon as ontop of or outside of something. His name says it all. His logic is of the mind and it stands in a field of reality that is outside of the understanding gained only from direct experience. Explain walking or riding on water to an ancient people living on a tropical island. How? Have they experienced or do they understand the reality of temperature below freezing? We reason and we rationalize and we do so with the same 'thinking' that is itself part of the tool of the dilemma we find our 'self' within. In a world that exists in polarities: light/dark, up/down, in/out, cold/hot, male/female, et al., evil is not to have a place? Part of the package we sign on to in being here. Choice opens pathways with many possibilities and personal actions make those choices more likely to come about. We rise or fall out of or into 'evil' based upon choice as we evolve. Which is a harder path to be the knight in shining armour or to be the fire breathing dragon? As we confront and master our fears and our nastiness and our littleness we grow and choice opens. As we choose wisely a paradigm sift becomes possible... This can be known or argued a thousand ways to nowhere. A thousand years ago someone wanting to go to the moon in a physical vehicle would have thought it impossible or at least not been able to build such a means at the time. Today, we are near 40 years beyond its achievement. So it goes.