On 26/3/2008 12:49 AM, thomas malloy wrote:
Harry Veeder wrote:
*There was interesting pragrom recently on CBC radio on the role*
*of translation on western philosophy and thought.*
*One guest pointed out that the King James bible is not really the word*
*of God but a human
OrionWorks wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Some follow-up thoughts.
Terry Blanton wrote:
Particularly is the Thai Buddhist concept of Nirvana.
and proclaim it's all New Age Schick. - aka: schtic (Thank you,
Terry!)
No, it grows out out a particular world view.
You appear to state
Hi Thomas,
A couple of additional musings.
Is she destined to be a lost lamb for the rest of her miserable
life, to eventually burn in hell simply because she walked out
on Prager???
I think that her mind was already made up. My point was that
Dennis' comments cut her to the quick.
It
Harry Veeder wrote:
*There was interesting pragrom recently on CBC radio on the role*
*of translation on western philosophy and thought.*
*One guest pointed out that the King James bible is not really the word*
*of God but a human translation of the word of God. ;-)*
**
They're absolutely
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:55 AM, thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry Blanton wrote:
Particularly is the Thai
Buddhist concept of Nirvana.
The individual lives but a brief life before striking
the earth whereby the mote returns to the dust and the drop makes it
way to the sea.
Hi Thomas,
Some follow-up thoughts.
Terry Blanton wrote:
Particularly is the Thai
Buddhist concept of Nirvana.
The individual lives but a brief life before striking
the earth whereby the mote returns to the dust and the
drop makes it way to the sea.
Terry
Classic New Age Schick.
IOW,
There was interesting pragrom recently on CBC radioon the role
of translation on western philosophy and thought.
One guest pointed out that theKing Jamesbible is not really the word
of God but ahuman translation of the word of God. ;-)
Harry
- Original Message -
From: thomas malloy
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was interesting pragrom recently on CBC radio on the role
of translation on western philosophy and thought.
One guest pointed out that the King James bible is not really the word
of God but a human
Terry Blanton wrote:
Particularly is the Thai
Buddhist concept of Nirvana.
The individual lives but a brief life before striking
the earth whereby the mote returns to the dust and the drop makes it
way to the sea.
Classic New Age Schick.
Terry
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM,
Terry sez:
...
Sir Arthur pitied the overlords, forever the midwife but never the bride.
...
Eh, grasshopper? :-)
Terry
Grasshopper oh s badly wanted to be one of the Overlords. It sure
beat the alternative, of having one's home planet personality
evaporated!
Regards
Steven
I sense another tremor in diatribe forces...
It might see ironic, perhaps even contradictory to some, that Sir
Arthur, being the resolute atheist that he was, would also appear to
have had a ...deep seated yearning toward the mystical as Jed
speculated. I would like to suggest that such a
I found a series of books, beginning with Bangkok 8, to be quite
enlighening regarding spiritual matters. Particularly is the Thai
Buddhist concept of Nirvana. Nirvana is equated with zero. Zero is
the total elimination of the self and reuniting with The Force. :-)
I think of it to be similar
On March 24, 1989, I picked up the Wall Street Journal and had one of
the biggest shocks in my life. I read about cold fusion. I distinctly
remember thinking:
* If this is real, it changes everything. As a scientist remarked a
few weeks later, if true it is the most important discovery since
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What ran through my mind then were the words from the prologue of
Clarke's Childhood's End describing the invasion of Earth by a
fleet of extraterrestrial spacecraft:
This was the moment when history held its breath,
Terry Blanton wrote:
I never did understand what inspired Sir Clarke to write this novel.
That should be Sir Arthur.
That's an interesting question. Yesterday a reviewer wrote: In
Childhood's End, Clarke revealed himself as a fatalist and a mystic.
I told him I disagree. He referred me to:
- Original Message
From: Jed Rothwell
I would like to see that. If anyone has a copy, please send it to me.
I will check the Chamblee library.
Looks like there is CD ROM version from Grolier which is only available to
libraries:
Terry sez:
I never did understand what inspired Sir Clarke to write this novel.
Terry
Like Jed, I'll take a stab at answering this conundrum. I'll also be
the first to admit that my comments are highly eccentric, personally
opinionated, and filled with a kind of new age mystic drivel that
@Jed
Yes, Sir Arthur; but, it reminds me of the mythical king. Actually
apropos! :-)
@SVJ
I, too, felt the pain of the demise of the earth in my teenage
reading; but, as an adult I saw it as a metaphor for the
ornithological egg or the cocoon of the butterfly. Extending the
metaphor, the
- Original Message -
Like Jed, I'll take a stab at answering this conundrum. I'll also be the first to admit that my comments are highly eccentric, personally opinionated, and filled with a kind of new age mystic drivel that would have likely irked Sir Arthur, being the
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