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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.pagan,talk.religion.misc From: chaos@crystal.palace.net (Matthew R. Sheahan) Subject: Re: Pentagram Symbolism (was Re: The symbols of a pentogram) Date: 13 Jun 97 01:22:27 GMT Tom Schuler (duo@teleport.com) wrote: > Matthew! So good to hear from you after a long silence in this newsgroup. hi to you too. it's heartening to see you and folks still slaving away at the thankless task of education here. > I think your example proves the existence of the belief in gods but I don't > think it addresses the gods themselves. > I always treat gods who come to visit as real. After they leave, I resume my > doubting. well, if you don't demand that they be physical it works fine. gods are perfectly real in exactly the same way that governments are perfectly real. they exist because of people's participation in them, and they're never going to show up on your doorstep -- though of course their representatives may do so with varying degrees of frequency -- but it may not necessarily moot one much to act as if they don't exist. of course, what they actually are is radically different from both what they claim to be and what nearly all of their followers think they are. > There is ample evidence that subjective experience is still a form > of reality, although it is an essentially different kind of reality than > physical phenomena. that's true. but physical phenomena are really a fairly uninteresting and pallid level of reality. i don't think what's there matters nearly as much as what we think about it. not to say that this is unimportant stuff; far from it. but however many neat tricks we've learned to do through assidious study of physical phenomena, we have yet to invent a pill which gives a person an integrated, healthy and effective approach to living life as an empowered individual. chiaroscuro
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