The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83814   Message #1543943
Posted By: Amos
17-Aug-05 - 10:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
Don't follow leaders!
Watch thuh parkin' meters!


Most of what LH says is individually discoverable, and would have very little meaning in any other context. In a heuristic or academic or lab-experimental framework, his information would have little bearing, because it essenetially a description of thenature of the aware viewpoint behind all formal frameworks.

I admit he gets a little free with imponderables (like Capital-S Spirit) but essentially the separation between mortal form and spiritual self is purdy much as he describes it. The body is much like a highly evolved smart-card, designed to prove identity and prove that one is present in material scenarios.

That doesn't mean, however, that it is "what you are" or that there are not other kinds of scenarios. The SUV is not the driver; the telephone is not the speaker behind the voice; and the body is not the owner.

The strangest thing that we do not really know is who we each really are in full.

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