[ Home | Contents | Search | Post | Reply | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: David
Category: Category 1
Date: 6/09/05
Time: 17:44:08
Remote Name: 222.153.93.133
Allan,
Your post is well expressed and certainly merits a reply from somebody "out there ". We are all prone (vulnerable) to suggestion . Some people are likely to succumb more than others - for a multitude of reasons . To explain - they will use subjective words such as " Personal Revelation " etc. etc. and good luck to them . Our lives must have parameters in various respects . That is simply the way we are if we want to make sense of the world . Religion is just one option of those many parameters and I am sure , having been there , it could be comforting and / or disquieting .
Few thinking people would argue in their heart of hearts that there is not an intelligence at play within or outside our individual reality or experience . That intelligence may be a collective consciousness that is itself evolving or a static a priori initial force . The choices are ours as to how we define that phenomenon , if we even choose to make that attempt . Some even go to the lengths of anthropomorphising the unknowable . Rather than accept ,say, the apparent caprice of the Quantum World as an explanation , or countless other options . Despite the best of science available to us - all is ultimately but the absolute height of speculation . In the end the group cannot walk the path for the individual . No matter what church nor how many numbers it boasts nor with what assurance they speak . No matter how seemingly profound and convincing the statements made from the pulpit - all is but speculation .
In the meantime it is a beautiful world out there . And , if we are truly mature , the unknowable can remain a delightful enigma and ,in some sense,a rather special friend .