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Ciel,

One of the most thorough, balanced, and wise posts I have ever read!

Great job! Outstanding, from beginning to end!

Gerald

posted by GEPRUITT on January 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM | link to this | reply

I say live and let live or believe and let believe. If that makes sense.

A rose from me

and a smile

from that wonderfully goofy wonder dog =^..^= Bo!

posted by Whacky on January 5, 2008 at 8:52 PM | link to this | reply

you gotta believe in what you know

i have to write a post

about belief being based on the knowledge of the time.

and then belief refusing to accept new knowledge that changed the belief.

posted by Xeno-x on January 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM | link to this | reply

b2008-- I agree!

Wisdom is an interesting topic in itself: an effect of living with an open mind, tolerance, patience and humanity.

I agree also that even those that have a smaller bag of puzzle pieces, may yet have some essential pieces that someone with a bigger bag lacks, and needs.

Sorry for misspelling your ID previously, with p instead of b-- I think I've got it now!

posted by Ciel on January 5, 2008 at 10:29 AM | link to this | reply

Ciel, wisdom is what a lot of...

...people need to seek because then there is no reason to be narrow-minded. We should never close our minds off from acquiring additional knowledge of any kind. You are never too old or too intelligent to learn something from the most meek of people if you are open to discussion.

posted by b2008 on January 5, 2008 at 10:03 AM | link to this | reply

hagi, you are right, I didn't mention those in the center of the debate

as I was mainly addressing the issue of the opposed ends of the continuum. So I'm glad you have brought it up so eloquently.

I also know people who are simply not engaged in the debate. They live as they believe, and their lives are the illustration of what they hold to be true. It is evident from their lives that they have an understanding of how things work, what does and doesn't work in creating a lifetime.

Does anyone agonize over the problem of gravity? Or need to delve into the mysteries of walking? Those do, who have problems with those things. The ones who have no problems with it, just get on with other things they find more interesting.

And some of us invest lifetimes poking at everything to do with this particular mystery of reconciling science and mysticism, or body and spirit, or is there or is there not a God...?

Some of us really want to know, to be sure of something that seems so important; for others. they consider it unnecessary to poke at it constantly because why mess with something that seems to be working just fine?

Thanks so much for your comment, and welcome to Blogit!

posted by Ciel on January 5, 2008 at 10:03 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Sam I think it is safe to assume that you will be

--that we all are known by actions and deeds more than anything else.

posted by Ciel on January 5, 2008 at 9:47 AM | link to this | reply

You seem to have excluded (or wasn't I reading carefully enough?) those folks who are in a state of ongoing search - and research - on the subject. Like me, for example (I have a certain feeling that there is something more in this life than physical reality, but is it God (as a separate being)? or is it sacredness of everything that somehow emanates, creating an invisible mixture of "auras"? or is it an universal law that I feel and mistake for something, well, more lively? - and although I would very much like to rest in assuredness of something, I don't see I'll reach any final conclusions in near future.

And also there are people (not many thou) who somehow seem not to care, but not because they're stupid or narrow-minded, just because any belief doesn't change what they feel to be right. Like my husband, for example - when I met him I was amazed at how deeply and readily he connected with that universal force one may call God. It was like he was able to meditate within a second. And I was even more amazed when I realized he didn't actually believe anything. I didn't know it was possible - to be spiritually very balanced and still have absolutely no religious opinion. He seems to believe what can be proved (like scientific facts), but that which cannot be proved he just leaves alone, not accepting, not denying. I'm still trying to figure him out, but this seems almost as hard as figuring out God, forgive this awkward comparison.