--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > The real problem is the need to compete. It can take > > > > > > many forms, depending on the nature of the competing > > > > > > religions. > > > > > > > > > > > Well said. The need to compete keeps us attached to the > > > > > birth and death of ideas, the birth and death of desires, > > > > > and the birth and death of the body. > > > > > > > > Or the other way around, the need to compete is a > > > > function of attachment. > > > > > > Right. Kind of a snake chasing its tail type of thing. Either > > > way it is a circle. > > > > Plus the irony that if religion can be said to > > have a goal, it's to break that vicious circle. > > Yes. *Very* ironic! A close friend of mine remarked that they > thought the main goal of any religion is to prepare us for death.
Oy gevalt. Well, death is transcendence of a sort. Or transcendence is a sort of death. So he wasn't far wrong, conceptually at least. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
