"You're gonna want cause & effect"---GR

[Ian Livingston]

Ah, Buddhism. Yeah, it, too, is an interesting metaphor, though more
explicitly founded in superstitious projection than some others. Maybe
the explicit nature of the superstition makes it more palatable in
some ways.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I tend to incline toward a limited determinism: history
>> compels us, but possibility opens infinitely.
>
> Both history and future possibility are fictions created by the illusory separate self which likes to believe it isn't determined but is a free and autonomous entity. Until that illusion is dispelled the big wheel just keeps on spinning.



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant