On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:09:46 -0700 (PDT), Hatter
<Hatter23@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Apr 24, 1:55=A0pm, panamfl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>>
>> You are selling human ability short. Ideas fade because they fall from
>> favor, not because they cannot be protected and expressed. No one
>> wor****ps the Greek pantheon today, but *those* tales still survive as
>> well..
>>
>Notice every religion has been touted as the eternal Turth, yet they
>never seem to survive the fall of the culture that sup****ted them, or
>at least not intact.
>
>Yet when it come to things like ceramics, iron forging,
>gunpowder....these are not held to be eternal truths by religion but
>most seem to easily survive the fall of the culture that invented
>them. Yet, they were not held to the esteem religion was.
>
>It really isn't difficult to figure out science works and survive
>because it is real and religion doesn't because it is cultural.
>
>Hatter
people think that ancestors were these 'grand' individuals and had
some insight into divine mysteries and must be honored and
respected. I mean, yeah, honor them, but realize that they were
****ed up individuals limited by the technology of that era...
octinomos
--
`We come now to the idea of the Gaeia Universe, where the whole of the
Universe would be a single living entity of which all mankind is barely an
organelle. But unlike the organisms of Earth, the elements of the Universe,
energy and matter, are not connected by the bloody and battering
interaction of consumption that we experience on Earth, but by the same
forces of physics and mechanics which govern the aforementioned
astronomical principles. The concept of pantheism proposes an additional
connection, one of an overarching divine presence. In this divinity, mind
and matter are one, and all things in the Universe are evenly connected''
--B.D. Abramson
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