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To: hosepipe; Alamo-Girl; Hank Kerchief; xzins
... as you said, being free of the human condition may be the only way....

But that's precisely what I cannot say, and will not say, dear brother in Christ!

The human condition, to my mind, is precisely what needs to be embraced, in order for us mortals to see how very much the human condition carries out God's Plan for the Creation.

To my mind, what you seem to propose here is nothing less than some kind of prescription that allows us to cut ourselves off from our Maker. That somehow human existence can in any way be considered as meaningful, absent any universal (read: divine) standard of meaning.

But I think you recognize as well as I do, the dangers that pertain whenever man decides to make himself (i.e., human experience per se) the "measure" of reality....

1,273 posted on 07/06/2009 5:26:12 PM PDT by betty boop
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To: hosepipe; Alamo-Girl; xzins; Hank Kerchief

p.s.: I think Bob Dylan was a very wise man, to notice that human beings by their very nature (it seems) must “serve somebody”; i.e., must serve something larger than themselves and their immediate concerns, whatever they might happen to be.


1,274 posted on 07/06/2009 5:30:17 PM PDT by betty boop
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