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To: TigersEye
"I was just answering your questions. I never asked you anything."

Yes you did. #293 and #315

In #91 your _first_ post - you disputed what I wrote.

"A confession of atheism is simply an honest confession of ignorance of any realities that transcend the human ego, nothing more, nothing less. And why argue with a man who not only clings to ignorance, but is proud of the fact?" ~ Gagdad Bob

"..For reason is only a faculty of knowing something indirectly in the absence of direct vision, while God is known directly, the same way one knows one is alive, perceives reality, or is aware of free will. In order to see something, it is not necessary to logically prove the existence of sight. Many of the most important truths are known simply by their “superabundance of clarity,” by pure intellect, not by the reason which is its servant. Reason is not Intelligence in itself, only an instrument of intelligence. Few things create more mischief than reason in the hands of an unintelligent or immoral wonker. .[..]Not for nothing did Richard Weaver say that “every attack upon religion is inevitably an attack upon mind.” Naturally there are many forms of stupid religion, for there is nothing touched by humans wonkers that cannot be made stupid. But at least religion as such does not exclude the possibility and priority of Intelligence, and therefore, Truth. ..." ~ Gagdad Bob

319 posted on 07/03/2008 1:23:44 PM PDT by Matchett-PI ("It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire)
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To: Matchett-PI
If you want to be that literal I did ask three rhetorical questions in post #293 and in #315 I asked a clarifying question because you attributed one response of mine to a quote of a "Buddhist" when in fact it had been to a quote of Gagdad Bob's so it wasn't clear to me if you were confused about which quote I responded to or if Gagdad Bob was a Buddhist. I was just trying to straighten out the error you made there.

But I haven't asked you to explain your thinking to me. All of my responses have been to answer your detailed inquiry into my understanding of Buddhism and to correct the multiple misperceptions you have posted about it.

In #91 your _first_ post - you disputed what I wrote.

That's true and I stand by that. The statement I disputed is incorrect.

320 posted on 07/03/2008 2:42:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 Olympics for murdering regimes Beijing '08)
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