My mind in meditation runs much as Vam describes, though the content is often disappointing. For once Lee, I'm sure you have it all wrong. If sexual orientation wasn't a choice, how do you explain why all those women who refuse to sleep with me are not Lesbians? Or am I missing something again? I wouldn't worry too much about numbers Twirl, or a great big Pythagorean will come and eat you. If cornered, the etiquette is not to offer it beans or anything picked up from the floor. These offend its wonderful mind. In another sense, a dose of Monty Python would do you good.
Hard to say what I'm getting at in a few words Lee. I used to teach Iranian Marxists who were absolute zealots. They had definitely chosen to give up on god, but replaced him with what little they knew of Marx, which sounded much like the social bits of Islam. Not much rationality was involved and I suspect, in conversion, there is not much room for choice (and less change than we might think). Do you remember the South Park in which Mormonism is dum, dum, dum de dum? Yet at the end, the smart kid sees they just choose the life the togetherness brings? The word choice is a tough nut. I choose (in an admittedly shaky way) not to believe in god/gods, you choose to seek - both are allowable in as far as we seem to be able to get in epistemology. We have our particular reasons, which probably matter little in our view of each other (say less than knowing we'd both help an old woman across the road). The particular state of a brain with a much more active god-spot may not allow either of our type of choice. In fairly strict argument we can only bottom at choice being allowable, and not the choice to take. But who bothers with strict argument much? Blair has become Catholic, but is still a snide, deluded, self-seeking toe-rag. The Pope has offered to take on the Anglicans who hate homosexuality. Almost worth choosing to be a Proddy again and visit Francis in my new Lutherian robes! I thought about being a Sikh, but have a phobia of and tendency to fall on my own sword. In epistemology we have to make choices and assess what is important. Some make choice of god the important issue. Some do this and are utterly decent, others only learn in this choice to hate those who do not make the same choice. Not keen on the latter. On 19 Jan, 13:09, Twirlip <[email protected]> wrote: > The numbering seems to have sorted itself out now. I've never seen > that particular glitch on Google before.
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