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

To: RMF who wrote (23855)	6/13/2006 7:55:18 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

<When he looked at the human genome did he think that God just thought it would be interesting to throw a few curve-ball genes in there so that some children would be born with deformities or chronic diseases or inherited conditions that would limit their lives to one or two years of excrutiating pain and then death?> I dont think the fact that the world isn't perfect in any one persons eyes has much to do with existance of "god" or not. <I'll bet his perceptions would have been different if one of his children had been so afflicted.> People with afflicted children have ALL SORTS of differing experiences... from hell on earth to grace. It would seem to me more pertinent to wonder aboout the childs experience from that viewpoint IMHO, but that's JMO. OTOH, if your of the Eastern spiritual viewpoint... both of those "individuals" are really part of the greater whole in any case. DAK

To: RMF who wrote (23855)	6/16/2006 1:32:45 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"I'll bet his perceptions would have been different if one of his children had been so afflicted." How can people be so primitive as to even consider that somebody is out to grant them virgins, fresh fruit, heaven, or whatever...??? Homo Sapiens is a run between beasts and lovers. 99% of us are assholes. I might be one of them--who knows? My policy in life has been not to hurt others (this does not mean not to correct or punish others in a framework of justice!). I think I have lived as a rational personal would live. Just meditating out loud here. Your posts are really good--always thoughtful.