Great rap. If you don't mind, I'll riff off of the parts that resonate with me, and leave the other parts for other posters to do justice to. I'm pretty sure that with my world view, I couldn't. :-)
--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, as for whether it makes any sense to think of the universe > as having some intrinsic "threeness," well, I do. For me it's a > belief, a theory. > > Not to deny unity, but for the purposes of discussion only, I > love to think about "what if such and such were true?" I get off on the same thing. Fun, isn't it? I get off equally on the question, "What if such and such were NOT true." > If there has to be a God, what would that God be like? To me, > I can chew on that all day... Possibly because I was raised religionless, I never got off on that question very much. I didn't give the whole concept of God much thought until I ran into the curious fact that Buddhism, arguably a fairly serious path to realization, had no need for a God as part of that path. That caused me to ponder the subject and realize that, for most of my life, neither had I. To me, the world seemed to work very well on its own, like some kind of eternal Operating System, nothing more (nor less) than the interaction of karma and free will. Nothing more was *needed* to explain all of the phenomena I saw around me. Therefore, using Occam's Razor, the simpest, most elegant solution is the most probable solution, so I "probably-d" that I had no need for a God in the theories about the universe that I occas- ionally come up with to amuse myself. > I mean, we can all just close our eyes and be done with the > jawin', right? Silence is the only truth. I see it more as Just Another Truth, not the only truth. Silence exists. But so does noise. And so does music, and the song of birds and the waves crashing on the shore. Just as a predilection, I really don't "weight" the silence more than I weight the cacophony of life. They *both* have their place, and they *both* attract me. And they don't even attract me in different ways. As far as I can tell, it is the *same* "natural tendency of the mind" that draws me to silence, and to the roller-coaster ride of the relative world. I can "transcend" on either. My pet theory for why this is so is that there is no difference between the silence and the diversity. But that's Just Another Theory, and I'm not very attached to it. Tomorrow might bring a new set of experiences, and thus a new set of theories. I'm sure they'll be as full of black holes as this one, ready to suck me into them and through them, to the next experience and the next theory. :-)
