--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > . . . > As it turns out, my "challenge" is an old > and famous one, one that actually had an > answer. It was proposed (at different times, > obviously) by the Biblical King Solomon and > by Abraham Lincoln, who challenged someone > to produce a saying that would be true at > all times and in all situations. The pro- > posed answer to THAT challenge was, "This > too shall pass," which is essentially the > same as your answer. Congratulations... > you now officially have the "wisdom of > Solomon." > . . . > [ For the record, however, would Solomon's > answer actually *be* absolute, given the > Vedic concept (which I do not agree with) > of creations "coming and going," and there > being a time "in between" creations where > there is no relative, only Absolute? If > one believes that myth to be true, then > even "This too (in this case, the Absolute) > shall pass" is not true. ]
Just for fun, and to show how easy it would have been to play this game instead of play- ing 'gotcha' yet again, here is *my* candidate for an "absolute truth." It depends on rejecting the childish anthropo- morphism of the Vedic creation/dissolution/ newcreation myth and believing instead in the Buddhist view, which is that there has never been a time when creation was not in exis- tence and never will be a time when it is not in existence -- creation (both relative and absolute) is, has always been, and will always be. If that were true, then a possible candidate for an "absolute truth" might be: "While creation is ever-changing, 'ever' is eternal." I'll even bet on this axiom being an "absolute truth." Any amount you want. All you have to do to collect is wait for creation to dissolve and become unmanifest and then email me. I'll send your money right away. :-) :-) :-)
