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]]> By: auntiegrav http://samadhisoft.com/2008/08/19/soul-according-to-tom-robbins/comment-page-1/#comment-17023 auntiegrav Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:02:48 +0000 http://samadhisoft.com/2008/08/19/soul-according-to-tom-robbins/#comment-17023 Anytime someone says, "It's the question that cannot be answered." it means they are selling something to you that doesn't exist. I am a genius. In the words of my friend, "a f...king genius". There are NO paradoxes in the real universe, only our misunderstandings and imaginary theories about what is going on. The idea of a 'soul' is a paradox. God is a paradox. I'm not saying that some energy-based pattern of usefulness cannot exist in the universe, just that it cannot be what we hope it is. If there is a heaven where our patterns go, and there is some 'switch' we have to hit to get there, then anyone can get there, and the most important lesson from life is learning to live with other people's faults:"forgive those who trespass against us", because you won't be going to heaven just with the people you want, but with anyone and everyone who figures out the magic switch. Most likely, we just stop, but our brains are wired to 'believe' things, like that there may be a tiger hiding in the tall grass. Believing something is there that is not is a survival trait. Not believing in something that IS there is not. The real question about ourselves is "What are people FOR?" (see Wendell Berry) I think humans have at least the same amount of 'purpose' as any living thing: to create future usefulness over and above what we consume in resources. Our brains give us great power over other life, but with that power comes great responsibility if we are to pretend that we are actually 'thinkers' and not just 'reactionaries' to the environment and our emotions. So far, I have only seen the latter as a general rule. Humanity sold its soul for comfortable thoughts, as your example of religion illustrates. Anytime someone says, “It’s the question that cannot be answered.” it means they are selling something to you that doesn’t exist. I am a genius. In the words of my friend, “a f…king genius”. There are NO paradoxes in the real universe, only our misunderstandings and imaginary theories about what is going on. The idea of a ’soul’ is a paradox. God is a paradox. I’m not saying that some energy-based pattern of usefulness cannot exist in the universe, just that it cannot be what we hope it is. If there is a heaven where our patterns go, and there is some ’switch’ we have to hit to get there, then anyone can get there, and the most important lesson from life is learning to live with other people’s faults:”forgive those who trespass against us”, because you won’t be going to heaven just with the people you want, but with anyone and everyone who figures out the magic switch. Most likely, we just stop, but our brains are wired to ‘believe’ things, like that there may be a tiger hiding in the tall grass. Believing something is there that is not is a survival trait. Not believing in something that IS there is not. The real question about ourselves is “What are people FOR?” (see Wendell Berry) I think humans have at least the same amount of ‘purpose’ as any living thing: to create future usefulness over and above what we consume in resources. Our brains give us great power over other life, but with that power comes great responsibility if we are to pretend that we are actually ‘thinkers’ and not just ‘reactionaries’ to the environment and our emotions. So far, I have only seen the latter as a general rule. Humanity sold its soul for comfortable thoughts, as your example of religion illustrates.

]]> By: pookie http://samadhisoft.com/2008/08/19/soul-according-to-tom-robbins/comment-page-1/#comment-17021 pookie Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:59:08 +0000 http://samadhisoft.com/2008/08/19/soul-according-to-tom-robbins/#comment-17021 And then there's what Bart Simpson said about the subject: "There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson." And then there’s what Bart Simpson said about the subject:

“There’s no such thing as a soul. It’s just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.”

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