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To: koan who wrote (255151)	7/7/2014 7:14:02 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 542129

re......Global warming..population..pollution Ah......The ..Unseens .................................................................................... not unlike the..well accepted..illusion of the sun rising in the east..(The earth turns..) the three threats..mentioned above... go..unseen.........and thus...limit our experiential understanding of reality If The Buddha..Christ..Mohammad....Schrodinger....Huxley .and other...Transcendentalists are right..(as in Correct........) Our.person hood... (view..).. is a ..multi-layered strata of Illusion.......................... the ultimate task...for the.....individual......it is see through The illusion...... and become free* of ..The Myths..that hold us...entranced ........enlaced.......captivated ............ *(Jivan Mukta...one who is..Freed in this Life.................) just some early morning ramblings...Be safe out There.<g>

To: koan who wrote (255151)	7/7/2014 8:21:08 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 542129

Well, times are supposed to get real awful for Jeebez to come save us all...why are you bitching? :)

To: koan who wrote (255151)	7/7/2014 9:29:31 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542129

I wouldn't give a damn about religion if I didn't feel it imperials the survival of the human species. Look at how the folks in many very religious communities fight education and science, or just don't value it. I should just continue to bite my tongue on this stuff but I've about bitten through by now. This distinction is far too simple. There are a great many very religious folk including the leaders of most of the major Protestant denominations (I refer to them only because I know about them) who are quite enamored with serious science, believers in evolution, and much in favor of much more serious measures to stop global warming than the present administration has put forward. By the same token, there are many quite religious scientists. I knew two faculties rather well in the past century. There were quite a few dedicated scientists on those faculties who were quite serious about their religion. You have in mind a certain form of religion, generally fundamentalist, literalistic.