I mean insights into human nature.  I would not use he term "laws" in
this context.



--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
<curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > "I'm willing to bet that the Platonic Mysteries taught this about the
> > Greek Gods also..."
> > 
> > I am more of a Joseph Campbell man concerning myths from the past. 
> > Equating any set of ancient gods with the laws of nature we discover
> > in science seems too reductionist.  I believe the guys who wrote those
> > stories were better writers than that.  They weren't asking the same
> > questions we are asking with science's discovery of laws of nature. 
> > The two systems may not be compatible except by analogy.
> > 
> > I would much rather hear a psychologist talk about the connections
> > with myths than a physicist.  I think ancient cultures recorded a lot
> > of wisdom about human nature and the nature of society in those myths.
> 
> The laws of nature in Hinduism also refer to the laws of *human*
nature. Or rather, the laws 
> of human nature are simplistically reflected in what Westerners call
laws of nature.
>





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