--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: <snip> > > > > Well, I was thinking about the type of > > > > Gnosticism that denounces the world as > > > > evil, an abortion created by a monstrously > > > > incompetent and malevolent lesser deity. > > > > > > "The world is as you are..."- That Same Guy > > > > Gee, thanks, Jim. > > That Same Guy = Maharishi. It is a literal truth is it not that the > world is a perfect reflection of us; we create the world we > perceive? Or are our perceptions of the world not ours? And if not > ours, whose are they?
The Gnostic idea is that "we" didn't have any say in how the world (including, of course, ourselves) was created and set up. You may have missed the context. In my previous post, I had said: "On my darker days, I tend to think I could have pissed a better system than we're stuck with. Take away my TM, and I'd be a really gnarly Gnostic." This was in response to Llundrub's complaint about the Gita's stance on war and how people have no way to know for sure what's dharmic and what isn't. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
