GRGR(11): transcendence/annihilation

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Cjhurtt6 at aol.com writes:
> crowley at arches.uga.edu writes:
> << Is this an acceptable alternative to the death-obsessed culture of Their 
> technology or to the Transcendence-through-annihilation we see from Blicero?  
> >>
> just a sidebar, but in sufism there is no difference between transendence and 
> annihilation.

In sufism, annihilation is the annihilation of the self (via immersion
in love and merger with the Master/Teacher standing in for God). It's
quite different from Blicero's version (love of Death and pursuit of it
via annihilation of everything - in essence, taking upon himself the
functions of the Lord of Death).

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
"brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio" - Horace