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To: muawiyah
"Gnostics believe there to be an objective reality."

You don't believe there is an objective reality? Too bad for you. There is one.

As I said, post-modernism isn't my thing. It's too left-wing for me.
655 posted on 04/06/2006 6:25:53 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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657 posted on 04/06/2006 6:27:23 AM PDT by ml1954 (NOT the disruptive troll seen frequently on CREVO threads.)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Then you are a Gnostic. The rest of us aren't, although most Moslems tend toward that sort of belief ~ Sharia Law certainly assumes there can actually be one fixed, immutable law.

Fascists with their fuhrer principle, and the Commies with Democratic Centrism, also believe in an objective reality which they can create and which everybody will believe even if they have to kill off the nonbelievers.

I think you should reassess your understanding of the place of "objective reality" in a universe where religious folks, of all stripes, accept change, revelations, miraculous occurrences, and so forth ~ all inexplicble at the time, but maybe explainable ultimately, and still useful in assisting in comprehending our existence for the time being.

Such mysticism allow them to accept the change that is constantly occurring.

665 posted on 04/06/2006 6:36:52 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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