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Thread #100473   Message #2022248
Posted By: Bill D
11-Apr-07 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Have you changed your religious views?
Subject: RE: BS: Have you changed your religious views?
If infinity has any use at all in our daily discourse, it might be to refer to the number of "what ifs" we can posit to rationalize our various viewpoints *wry grin*.

It can be fascinating to speculate about 2-D gods & 3-D gods and n-dimensional space and meta-realms which we can only approach mathematically...but very few of these concepts have any relation to our need to cope with the practical problems of accepting or rejecting religious claims about how we should live our daily lives and who has the authority to decide.

Old saws like "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." are not just clever word play...they illustrate real problems in reconciling the possible & probable inherent in life.

My grandmother used to sing...."If I had the wings of an angel, over these prison walls I would fly." Yup...