Subj : Big fat warning, oh my!
To   : FRANK MASINGILL
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Wed Nov 01 2000 09:41 am

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>  TH> > I have not found that in my search for the truth of
>  TH> > existence that religious dogmatism is a huge problem.  As a
>  TH> > matter of fact as I look back upon my life and study, I
>  TH> > think I overcame that without too much difficulty because
>  TH> > the suspicion began in childhood.  But as to secular
>  TH> > dogmatism, I found, to my great surprise, that the
>  TH> > educational system through the universities there was also
>  TH> > tremendous closure and dogmatism.  I have had to struggle
>  TH> > against the freedom of what Bergson symbolized as the "elan
>  TH> > vitale" or the constancy of the Aristotelian "wonder" that
>  TH> > with Plato's nous is the heart center of philosophy as the
>  TH> > deadly opponent of "philodoxy" (love of dogma).  Since I
>  TH> > also do not consider the "God" symbol to be representative
>  TH> > of an "existing thing" I also have been insulated against
>  TH> > the mighty torrent of the "God is Dead" foolishness.
> 
>  TH> If would answer the repeated questions as to what you mean by
>  TH> a "nonexisting God", it might make it easier for people to
>  TH> understand you.
> 
>         You experience God as an existing thing among other existing
> things in the shaft???  And you experience such an existent thing as
> the ground of all other existing things???  That would appear to be


God exists outside the shaft. God created the shaft.
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