<div>That last line was meant as a joke.</div><div><br></div><div>The gist was a take on reality and experience.</div><div><br></div><div>David Morris </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 6:36 AM Ian Livingston <<a href="mailto:igrlivingston@gmail.com">igrlivingston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg">fuck that. god has nothing to do with it. its just a handy metaphor for displacing responsibility. comes to that it's me that pisses me off, not god. i could be doing more to set my life right.<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:34 PM, David Morris <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_fbodi.htm" class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_fbodi.htm</a><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"><br class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg">Many Eastern spiritual paths believe that all beings are ultimately not separate individuals, but are instead eternal and recurring individual manifestations of a single all-pervading creating Consciousness, both creator and perceiver. In this schema Shakespeare was right: "All the world's but a stage." Perceived reality is paper thin. Real reality is a unifying Consciousness that stages a play for itself. Shiva and Shakti. Underneath all perceived reality is the creator who is us, both Shiva and Shakti, who are one.</div></div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"><br class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg">So, next is the Matrix-like concept that everything we see is an illusion, a deception. But in this case the deception is a state assumed voluntary, like taking a drug. In this matrix God has intentionally given himself a Mickey to see if he can find his way back to himself. A perverse god, willingly creating bad in order to experience it, which wouldn't be so bad, except we are his vehicles of experience. Creation in this scenario is a game God is playing with himself. How postmodern is that?</div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg">David Morris </div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg">God pisse me off!</div><span class="m_-5314013757157489213HOEnZb gmail_msg"><font color="#888888" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-5314013757157489213m_-5777459417573981815gmail_msg gmail_msg">David Morris </div>
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