Subject: Re: music as a process of religion
From: Dan Pfleging (PhishHed@prodigy.net)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 18:16:30 EST
Well I can see where you're comming from with the whole lack of
education thing. I'm not even halfway done with highschool :) (not to
mention that the public school system in America is a thing of evil and
should be done away with first chace we get)
> Do you mean, then, that the Biblical teachings about compassion are wrong
> because they are also supposed wrong about the structure of the universe?
I wasn't talking about it's moral standings or teachings. I was
referring to their stance on the structure of the universe. If they thought
that the world was flat and in the center of the universe, surely they can
be wrong about there being a big invisible man in the sky, no? And I never
said anyone was wrong or anything, at least I hope I didn't come off that
way. Looking back, I actually did do that, so I'll just shut up now =P
> 3. It's a terribly shallow characterization of religion to think it exists
> primarily to explain the origins of the universe. By the time religions
get
> to That point, they have pretty far developed. If you read the Vedas
(some
> of them), for example, you'll see that what they're really explaining is
an
> inner revelation they had about Themselves -- which happened to relate to
the
> rest of the universe, by the way. It's much more deeper, much more
personal,
> and waaay beyond simple cosmological statements.
Good point. I succumb to thee.
> 4. You do approach some substance so far as us "not ever really being able
to
> know." But hundreds of millions of people worldwide -- perhaps in the
> billions -- disagree with you
Those people don't KNOW. It doesn't matter if they don't agree with me.
Nobody KNOWS for sure that their beliefs are the beliefs that offer up the
right explanations for things. Anyhow, I just got my ass kicked in a debate
<rubs his sore backside while bowing to Jim> Don't swing so hard next time.
Remember, I'm part of the Jim collective ;) <insert maniacal laugh>
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