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To: Don Hurst who wrote (278500)	9/13/2015 10:03:22 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 540606

So many gods... so little time... Aldous Huxley's view... Aldous Huxley came from a very secular world. His great uncle was Matthew Arnold, a prominent British intellectual, poet and religious skeptic. Thomas Huxley, a noted paleontologist and key defender of Charles Darwin, was his grandfather. Aldous’s brother, Julian, was a famous biologist (and eugenicist), knighted in 1958. If anyone had a pedigree for skepticism, it was Huxley. And yet, while his first wife was dying in 1955, Huxley chanted from the “Tibetan Book of the Dead” as she passed. Huxley’s second wife, Laura, did the same for him when he died. "You are doing this so beautifully — you are going toward the light," she described her words after he died. Huxley is most noted for “Brave New World,” a dystopian vision of technological tyranny where human spirit is crushed less by force than by pleasure and distractions. But his body of writing as a whole often focused on a mystical connection to the divine. “Huxley always blended his Buddhism with a scientific perspective,” said Joan Wines, a Huxley expert and professor at California Lutheran University. “What he’s trying to find out is truth that is both spiritual and scientific.” In 1945, Huxley wrote “The Perennial Philosophy,” with excerpts of classic texts ranging from Eastern Hinduism and Buddhism to mystical elements of Islam and early Christianity — an effort to synthesize a common core of faith. Read more at national.deseretnews.com

To: Don Hurst who wrote (278500)	9/13/2015 10:59:53 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540606

I feel like Trump probably has an idol of himself somewhere :-) But seriously, his attraction to evangelicals is interesting. He's quite clearly immoral, in most of the ways the bible specifies. I have to think that some of the candidates who do try to live by some of the biblical rules have to feel a little cheated, a little "God's ways are mysterious", seeing Trump doing so well. But the foolishness of man is pretty much an inexhaustible resource- and that is all you need to know to understand the Trump effect.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (278500)	9/13/2015 1:37:40 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 540606

The problem with gods, spirituality and all other forms of paranormal is the fact humans not only will believe almost anything, we all make stuff up at a whim, hallucinate, and the less we know the more we make up, or believe. But even the best and the brightest are just fine believing stuff that is blatantly crazy; and we live in a virtual reality, our memories are terrible and our minds are irrational at their base. Bill Burr a comedian (I am sorry you feel that way") on netflix does a great skit where he makes fun of scientology, but then compares it to the Christian story and sees there is no difference in astounding claims: e.g. virgin birth, walks on water and rises from the dead. It is very funny. My favorite stand up.