politics and religion: christianity versus the pantheistic

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Tue Feb 18 00:11:44 CST 2003


on 2/17/03 9:34 PM, David Morris at fqmorris at yahoo.com wrote:

> 
> --- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
>>>>> It is centered around the fundamental idea of the everlastingness of the
> individual soul<<<
>> 
>> It is centered around the fundamental idea of the illusoriness of the
> ndividual soul. Reincarnation is also a conceptualization of the realm of
> illusion. Individual souls do not advance through some evolutionary process to
> attain advanced states of consciousness. Individual souls are illusions which
> dissolve into Brahman like drops of water into the ocean.
>> 
> 
> So, I guess the message is that if one's going to ever be one's self, one
> better do it while on is alive, right?  Illusions are best indulged while one
> is able.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> David Morris

Or choose not to indulge. That's kinda what ol' Siddartha was getting at.>
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