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To: D-fendr
Materially perhaps.

As opposed to what? "Spiritually?" More cosmic terms.

Sorry, the world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it.

No doubt. I am glad you find Taoist wisdom appealing. When will you accept that the world is not the way you say it is?

You haven't created a new world. Some believe truth is relative and if they don't believe it, it isn't true. But, some things are true whether you believe them or not.

You are right, imo. Our believing or disbelieving doesn't make something true or untrue. That's the nature of (dis)belief. That's why claiming that the NT is truth or completely denying it is probably more than either view can prove.

On the other hand, the Andromeda Galaxy exists even if we don't know about it. It's existence is a fact that is independent of our knowledge or belief.

286 posted on 04/24/2010 11:55:01 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
As opposed to what? "Spiritually?" More cosmic terms.

As opposed to non-material things. I won't believe you if you tell me your material possessions are all that exist and matter to you. Or even if you tell me your kids don't love you.

I will believe you think love is nothing but selfishness or that love is different things, none of them amounting to much, base animal reactions dressed up in human's cosmic sentimentalism.

Crustaceans can't know love. It's as simple as that. Nothing too cosmic about it. That's the way the world is, we can choose.

It's our choice as human beings.

287 posted on 04/25/2010 9:39:35 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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