"John Smith" <bobsyoungbro@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Sugien" <paulbryantsr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "John Smith" <bobsyoungbro@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> <Krislantijn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> Just as an embryo, coverded by the womb, cannot perceive what is
going
> >>> on outside the womb and cannot even perceive or know its own mother,
> >>> the conditioned beings cannot perceive its own source which lies
> >>> beyond their limited sense perception, nor can they see that which
> >>> lays beyond the wall of death.
> >>>
> >>> Just as the embryo cannot realize whether it will run around freely
or
> >>> will be bound up, whether it will be rich or poor, weak or powerful
> >>> or whatever, in the same way an ignorant living being does not know
> >>> whether after death he will be eternally liberated or take rebirth
as
> >>> a human or an animal, whether he will go to heaven or hell or
whatever
> >>> his destination will be.
> >>>
> >>> We want to see God but what credit do we have? How can an
> >>> insignificant germ who resides in our body see or realize our human
> >>> form? How can we, insignificant, conditioned, ignorant human beings,
> >>> with our limited sense perception, perceive the unlimited, all-
> >>> pervading form of the Lord who cannot even be captured by the
greatest
> >>> mystics?
> >>
> >>
> >> Then, it makes sense NOT to assume that, without evidence, such a
"being"
> >> does exist.
> >>
> >
> > The embryo has no evidence that the world outside of the womb exists;
but
> > it does.
>
>
> Oh .. playing a mentally corrupt shell game.................
> Whether the embryo (one very small part of a much wider REALITY) has
> evidence or not - there is evidence.
>
> Religious zelots HAVE no evidence - of ANY kind!
>
>
It is possible to be God-like, without the need for a God.
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