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By Eric Claus, published 5/4/2006University graduates need a good dose of free thinking and an understanding of ethics.
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-Propellor head.
-Dying Cockroach.
At least you have not joined Irf's camp and begun slinging around the lazy "Armchair Nazi" slogan.
Your quote about Buddhist meditation and brain function, while providing some interesting scientific observation of neurological fact, does little to address my challenge of:
a) The authenticiy and reliability of Pauls letter
b) The eternal implications of its content(particularly Chapter 15 of First Corinthians.)
But I won't persue that further for now, I think I've provided sufficient information with which you can grapple in your private times.
But before I conclude this post, let me touch on the Buddhist experience. Buddhism has nothing to do with any concept of a 'greater being'. It has to do with 'detachment' and the attainment of a state called Nirvana, complete detachment from all passion, lust, selfishness etc and that which causes suffering and pain. Needless to say, that a person achieving such a state, would experience substantial cognitive resonance as opposed to dissonance, where their actions and attitudes are in full harmony.
But a problem I see in this, is that it constitutes a psyhological state which probably cannot exist apart from a state of deep meditation, rather than a functional member of the human race in the real day to day, blow by blow world.
Further, it is just a psychological state, not the outcome of a living relationship with a risen Christ.
Here endeth the lesson.
Have a wonderful day all who have contributed to this thread. I think it has run its course.