On 10/12/2012 2:45 PM, Joe wrote:
> People have gotten and do get in trouble with religion when they make
> it literal or take it literally and forget that it is metaphor.
> Religionists -- keepers of religion -- have done this too.
>
> Scientists get in trouble this way when they take MODELS literally,
> and forget Nature.
Some religions call this "Original Sin", the "Fall from Grace", or being
"Cast from the Garden". Others call it "Maya" or "Delusion" or
"illusion". Still others identify it as "Mistaking the map for the
territory" or as a form of "attribution error".
Zen calls this "Ordinary mind".
KG
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