For you folks who think that Dan's suicide was crazy nuts and are rather high strung about how New Agers are waxing on about Dan, I'm asking if you see that that's a religious position. Meaning that you're displaying values which, like religious values, are matters of faith much more than fact.
I have, say, three, four, five and who knows how many more theories about what happens after death, and given your alarm about Dan, the atmosphere for discussion here is seriously dampened. Edification here? Sure.... Why would anyone try to get closure here with some sort of framing about Dan that they can abide with? No matter the theory, someone here is sure to stompsmashshit on it. This is not a healing place now is it? That's the bane of FFL -- you have to be a fool to post anything that your heart is (perhaps temporarily yes) resonating with. This place is great at rending, and that's a service I've benefited often and deeply from, because, yah, I gots delusions like the next guy, and one can get rapidly sandpapered here, but this righteous anger about the closure-memes of the New Agers seems tawdry -- like someone shouting out "He went to hell" at Dan's funeral. Given the black tragedies of the world, Dan's pales to ecru. On the Earth we have 60,000,000 people with IQs over 140 -- geniuses all -- yet Gaia is in such deep despair. Get it? Figuring out Dan's why-whats would have been figured if it could have been figured at all and figured thousands of years ago and be yet seen being taught in hieroglyphics or live desert scrolls whatever. This is a time for deep consideration, but such cannot happen if one's explorations into this unknown are relentlessly scoffed at by FFL's dolts and atheists and smarm lords. (Pick yer slot! If you're angry, choose "dolt.") And don't you see that this is exactly the world's attitude towards Dan-types who make untoward proclamations? As much as the handcuffing expectations of New Agers may have painted Dan into a psychological corner he could not bear, far more massively did the world at large have this negativity -- a resistance -- that presented itself as impermeable as the Berlin Wall. The sheer certainty behind the rancor of the anti-New Agers is the exact snag that Dan helped me confront in my own philosophical prejudices. We are as if finding faces in the clouds and then yelling at each other for being ridiculous only to see every interpretation become rapidly invalid by the winds above. That's the amness that is the divine Rorschach upon which all conceptuals are projected, and Dan taught that this parsing of reality was the problem -- it was this "Adam complex" in which one is naming all the beasts, and that keeps Adam thinking he's Adam-the-namer donchasee? Down with certainty!!!! A concept is a crime against infinity.
