Re: MD Access to Quality

From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 22 2005 - 06:34:07 BST

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    > Joe,
    >
    > It is interesting that you raise the etymology of "religion" - I threw
    > in an aside earlier, that despite my apparent hostility to religion,
    > it does have a useful valid purpose.
    >
    > What I reject is any fundamental / expalantory / causal purpose in religion.
    >
    > What I accept is the kind of thing implied here. When explantory
    > stories, derived over time, get too complicated, carrying all sorts of
    > baggage and flaws, juggling too many balls in the air at once - it
    > helps if the peers in a space can agree a summary - an agreed working
    > statement, in order to move on for 99% of practical life. The mistake
    > that gets made is when that working agreement gets treated as dogma,
    > or something of fundamental knowldege ... then ... well just look at 2
    > millenia of history.
    >
    > Magic, thanks for that Joe.
    > Ian
    >
    >

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