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    Why Is It So Hard For People to Conceed a Point?

    The whole thing about making points, defending, attacking, conceding - sounds familiar. This is what war is about - it's just being done on a smaller less violent scale here. We think it's safe to do so - no one seems to be getting hurt really. But if we see this 'harmless' process of...
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    Spiritual Materialism

    In reply, yes, there's the experience of real humility 'I don't know' - 'the more I know - the less I know', etc. That immediate realization that our mind and ability to know is recognized and understood. No games there. I think you are mistaken when you say that we stop at that point -...
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    Spiritual Materialism

    Thanks for the welcome. : ) There's often pride and sense of accomplishement with spiritual matters. "I've found it!", 'I've meditated - now enlightened!', I've read the holy scriptures, I've compared religions, and now I have some knowledge about all this. I'm proud, humbly pleased or...
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    Spiritual Materialism

    It occurs to me that there is little to no difference between the person who accumulates wealth and worldly power and one who accumulates ‘spiritual knowledge’ (could be aquired in religious study) and spiritual authority. It seems that both types of accumulation are designed to improve...
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    Man-Made Faith

    Halcyon says: 'So what do you think? Can a person invent their own religion and ever have their beliefs respected? Do you know anybody that has done so? Will there one day be religions whose 'prophets' include St. Luke Skywalker, and Paul "Mua'dib" Atreides? Or does a religion have to be...
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    Can drugs be used for religious experiences?

    Halucinagens (synthetic and naturally occurring) alter the normal patterns of mind. In some cases they have a somewhat minor effect, at others a more profound effect where 'other worldly' or beyond self experiences can happen. You can take a particular drug one time and it will have one effect...
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    'Us' and 'Them'

    Lintu, the problem is not that we have differences of culture - you eat different food, wear different closes and so forth. The problem has to do with when we identify with a certain ideology that differentiates or divides us in terms of valuation - either stated or implied. In other words, I...
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