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1 posted on 07/19/2011 5:07:09 AM PDT by spirited irish
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2 posted on 07/19/2011 5:19:34 AM PDT by spirited irish
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The writer is curiously selective about his descriptions of certain religions in order to maintain his thesis.

The essence of one of the hundreds of varieties of religions collectively called Hinduism is not man putting himself in the place of God but coming to understand that all things that can be named, including God, are illustrative of the illusion of separateness. The main point isn't that, at the most fundamental, man is really God. It is that what we call "man" and "God" and "the world" and "iron sulfate" are all illusion and have no independent existence at all. Freedom consists in realizing this and becoming liberated from the cycle of (illusory) rebirth.

Classical Buddhism posits only a tendency to exist, not a specific personal being, that is propagated through time because of continued desire. The answer is not becoming God, but extinction without remainder through the elimination of desire.
4 posted on 07/19/2011 5:34:52 AM PDT by aruanan
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in those times men had no ruling authority or mutual accord, but every man was independent and a law unto himself after the dictates of his own will

I didn't realize the Libertarian Party was that old.

6 posted on 07/19/2011 5:46:55 AM PDT by tbpiper (Sarah Palin is the antivenin for the Obama poison)
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It seems the author is fixated on the fact that natural science has a million and one useful applications while their supernatural explanations for physical phenomena have never been of any use to anyone.

These poor deluded fools cannot even be consistent in if acceptance of evolution is “humanism” and worship of humans as neo Gods - or a degradation of humanity as “just an animal”.

12 posted on 07/19/2011 12:20:47 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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49 posted on 07/21/2011 4:35:15 PM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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