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Thankyou for an interesting and reasoned reply, Vajradhara. :) Re: Free Will. You are right, this is a topic for a different Thread perhaps. I will only say here that I freely chose to marry my wife. I also choose, when driving, whether I turn left or right. We may do these things...

The great writer, Milan Kundera, once said in an interview: "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom... comes from having a question for everything." I cannot question someone's personal beliefs. They validate those deeply within themselves according to...

"Let me introduce you to mine because HE DOES Jesus is the way the truth and the light The alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end" ========= Nothing wrong with that, Basstian, that I can see. You make an assertion, which I presume you have validated to your personal...

"It is all completely based in our empirically observable universe." If this is so, why have you not posted material re: the function of the brain when working as 'mind' upon problems? I am fully qualified and prepared for such a discussion. Perhaps you could begin by considering the...

Good info., Steel, I thought.

"The ethical value in a human being is not in his biological body, but in his mind" Shouldn't this read "moral value..."? Ethics are any system of laws developed according to particular moral views. There can be as many ethical systems of different types as there are moral views and...

DT STRAIN A further comment about your original question of the 'elasticity' of the 'skin'. "my actual body is a dynamic thing made up of the physical matter around me, which extends and contracts into different regions of the world according to the extent to which I can detect and control."...

Hi J_J, What an interesting post... and yes, I have read some of the material of these people, not just the quoted article. From what you say, I even perhaps sound like one of them! BUT "Any life form is created in a way that its only desire is to receive pleasure." What a strange...

"Keep in mind all of the reasons I give in my post for why our skin is an arbitrary boundary are based solely on the material and the five senses." ================================== This is my point... DT Strain. What evidence is there for anything other than this, evidence amenable to...

"I stand by my statement. And the tenor is amused reflection (plus a little head shaking) " ==================================== I think I objected there to the term 'rise', and still do. I have no such intention at all. :) If I get people to think, I have done a good job in my own...

Sacredstar, You may well expect me to reply in the only way I can. Poetically, I may be as divine as you perhaps. Having said that, I hardly think I am anything other than an individual human being with a self-regarding faculty. That is my 'divinity'... an individual and unique human...

Perhaps we should say the boundary of ourselves is our skin? We can communicate, of course, and what we say and do, in whatever form, is likely to impact upon the world in general and others in particular. If we mean do we continue in some form beyond death, there simply is no replicable...

Good links, Vajradhara, and I agree with your conclusion. The focus, if you like, should be on how one behaves to oneself and other human individuals. But I repeat what I said in my previous post. Why fear re-incarnation? What different groups and sects of various religions believe is...

I do not really know why it is so misunderstood, Mosa, but it is something every major religion (and minor) seems to suffer from. Many of my friends are Islamic by faith, and we all get along fine, and when we meet as Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs, we easily demonstrate our...

It seems to me there is a great deal of sense in the Yin and Yang view, which is why perhaps it is so ancient a concept that has survived. I think it is eminently sensible to think of everything we perceive in existence, and perhaps conceptualise outside of existence in the material world, as...

Welcome, Ultimate. That's a pretty comprehensive personal belief system you have described! I am quite interested to know how you have come to these conclusions? :)

I like the tiger, Victor! Thanks for such a clear analysis, and the reference to my own views. You are quite right, but miss one point you might have forseen... In fact, there is a litle jealousy within me that says to believe as you do, must be rather wonderful. I can rationalise that...

Is it wrong I fear re-incarnation? ==================== Certainly, yes. There is no evidence for re-incarnation, so why fear it? :)

http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html Please visit the above site for further information re: other major monotheistic religions and Zorastrianism. Again, Brian's LINK from our archives.

Brian also has this in our archives here: zoroastrianism Founded around 1000 BC by Zoroaster (aka: Zoroastra, Zarathrusta, Zarathrushtra), his philosophical and moral teachings – concerning the endless war between good and evil - are preserved in his Gathas, or 'hymns', written in Avestan...