Dragaera

Damiano's Lute

Fri Nov 29 00:05:13 PST 2002

At 11:20 PM 11/28/2002 -0800, Andrew McGuigan wrote:
>
>I knew I would get in trouble if I didn't post
>examples, but that seemed just as likely if I *did*
>post examples.  I think there are questions worth
>asking that do not have to do with the material world.
>   Why do we exist?

Strikes me as a silly question.

>  Why do we immediately bond with
>some people and despise others?

An interesting question, and one I shouldn't be at all surprised to find 
that science can eventually answer.

>   Why do we love each
>other in the abscense of children?

I'm not sure what this means.

>Why are prayers
>answered?

Because many of us are skilled at lying to ourselves.

>
>
>I am arguing, I guess, that things can change  without
>becoming "unrecognizable".

Uh...I don't think anyone has disputed that.  I was arguing for the 
Incredible Shrinking God.  I don't think you can find anything in the last 
few hundred years og Buddhist or Hindu teachings to dispute that.  I mean, 
the Hindu's are even getting away from the *caste* system, which was 
decreed by the gods in the first place.