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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:24:38 -0400
From: Mike Ryder
Subject: Re: Possible enlightenment.
To: [Family member B]
Cc: [Family member A]
Hi there folks
I'm trying valiantly to respond to each and every email - I have some
catching up to do.
[Family member B],
I thank you for your sincere effort to invoke supernatural assistance
on my behalf.
Unfortunately, from my point of view, the enlightenment of which you
speak would require me to close my mind to reason and logic and blinker
myself in research and discussion. Honesty and integrity alone prevent
me from doing this, to say nothing of desire.
Your inability to elucidate further on your experience is a
shame. Lacking further evidence or data, solely from my
perspective, I would ascribe such an experience to a state of mental
agitation combined with a predisposition toward the ready acceptance of
mystical apparitions.
Please understand that I realise that to you it was and is real.
(However we choose to define real)
I did read the attachment you sent (from 'The bible for Dummies'?), and
have the following comments
1. Mid-life crises are a common occurrence, A goal
generally appears more exciting and rewarding prior to its
achievement. I wonder idly if this principle might also apply to
eternal life.... FYI I am pretty happy with my life.
2. I could hardly believe such asinine logic as conveyed in the
following highlighted quote. "with wisdom comes much sorrow; the more
knowledge, the more grief". So mortified was I at the
implications of this statement that I had to check its accuracy.
Upon investigation I read it as a mis-quote or at least a misleading
quote. I sure hope so!
I don't find the passage applicable no my situation - but I can see how
you might perceive it so.
Mike
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