From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 14:39:29 GMT
Mark,
You say:
"Christians believe in God do they not?
Buddhists do not believe in God do they?"
Eckhart said: "I pray to God to rid me of God".
Then there is the whole tradition of negative theology, the death-of-God
theologians, or Don Cupitt's book "After God".
Then there are Buddhists who do nothing but chant "Namu Amida Butsu", or spin
prayer wheels, etc. etc.
Your characterization above is overly simplistic.
- Scott
Mark 7-12-03: Hello Scott, You cannot be a Christian without believing in
God. As far as i know, that is the state of the matter. The Buddha did not
believe in God, as far as i know, that is the state of the matter.
Scott (for it is he)
P.S. I find it ironic that you think better of Buddhism than Christianity
because a "Buddhist may be more open to the MoQ", but then flame those who
disagree with you, as you did with Bo and as you are now doing with Matt.
Mark 7-12-03: I do not know what Bo or Matt think regarding this issue? But i
am not talking to them, i am talking to you, unless of course you feel it to
be your responsibility to talk for other people - a trait i find disturbing
and a bit fascistic.
But look here, we have wandered way from the issue, which is typical of your
correspondence.
The issue is one of faith - does faith flavour rational enquiry? Christians
hold a faith, Buddhists do not. Therefore, if faith flavours rational enquiry,
and as Buddhists do not hold such faith, Buddhists may be more open to more
flavours of rational enquiry. I think in MoQ terms you will find that to be a
conflict between social and intellectual endeavours?
Now you are going to ask what, 'Flavouring' rationality means aren't you,
because you have not been listening? 'Flavour' is a word i believe we may both
understand to indicate preference. How do we preference our rational enquiry? We
do that because rationality is an aesthetic intellectual sense and therefore
creative - if we could not preference our rational enquiry, we would all be
robots following one rational.
To sum up, the aesthetic of rational enquiry may be influenced by faith.
And to add, an antidote to faith may be scepticism, but how far can a
Christian sceptic push scepticism before faith is called into question? You know,
it's a matter of static patterning!
Scott:
I would think, given the MOQ, that you would have more respect for
intellectual differences, and not characterize them as conspiracies or psychological
failings.
Mark 7-12-03: Humans do have failings and do play games as a matter of life.
If you don't know this then go back to your ickle wickle bubble and donny
wonny wowy aboush it.
Mark
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