Jason P. Van Patten Website Development [email protected] Infogenix: www.infogenix.com
On 5/27/2011 1:43 PM, Alan Young wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 13:26, Jason Van Patten<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 5/27/2011 1:19 PM, Alan Young wrote: >>> Why would the soul *have* to share that information while instantiated >>> in corporeal form? >> out of a desire to prevent the consequences of good or evil actions to >> it's other forms > Ok ... I see where you're coming from. But just because the soul > *wanted* to do that doesn't automatically mean it is *able* to. And, > even if it were able to share that information why would it > automatically follow that the consequences of actions would be > ameliorated? How would the sharing of said information ameliorate the > consequences? in effect the idea would be that if fire will burn me (something i learned from a previous or alternate avatar) why would i want to experience that again? I know the result duplication of the event is both painful and wasteful. Why not spend my time doing something better? If it can't communicate information or simply choses not to the then of what relevance is a soul to its corporeal entities i.e. me? >> good or evil actions on the part of a coporeal form were meaning full to >> a soul then it would create a means (if it could or didn't already have >> one) to communicate and prevent undesirable consequences in it's avatars > Again, I don't see how sharing of information could prevent > undesirable (and enhance desirable) consequences. As a matter of > fact, it seems to me that the sharing of such information would > actually improve the soul as a whole as well as each instance. And > wouldn't that be the purpose? If this life (and the other > instantiations) are temporary then the soul's purpose would be for its > own improvement, not necessarily the improvement of any one instance > of itself. which is what i'm ultimately getting at. if the information could be shared why wouldn't it? One of the reasons i find Buddhism hard to swallow is this very fact. What is the value of a previous or alternat life if the soul cannot impart that knowledge to it current incarnations. Seems like a grand waste of time unless the motive is to simply gain experience. In that case the experience i gain is more important than the morality of it. This is not who i chose to be. I want to believe that the consequences of a moral choice are more valuable than the the immoral choice. >> if good or evil is irrelevant to the soul then morality would seem to be >> optional to any grand truth that might exist. > While I think your logic is sound, based on the assumption that good > or evil would be irrelevant in this model, I disagree with this > assumption. fair enough. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
