With this take....then devotees have "assigned" divine qualities to Amma and
hence the "anthropomorphism" label. It is perhaps splitting hairs to say that
another perspective is that devotees haven't "assigned" divine qualities - she
simply IS the divine. Of course, either way...these thoughts come out of a
human brain.
I don't profess to know for sure whether there is any intrinsic purpose to the
Universe or our existence in it - but our human brains sure have been puzzling
over this for eons - simply that evidence may be an argument one way or the
other.
--- On Sat, 6/18/11, maskedzebra <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
From: maskedzebra <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Visit with Amma
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 9:59 AM
Of course it's "anthropomorphism". I take it that the unstated premise of
people who write on this blog is that the universe expresses a providential
design and a providential execution. The existence of individual beings inside
a metaphysical context of perfect meaningfulness.
It is of course quite possible there is no such intrinsic purposefulness built
into the universe. For the sake of argument I am assuming the ontological truth
of this unproven assumption.
If you start without this a priori given, then there is nothing to say about
Amma but: This is BS—because I and you are cosmic accidents. And Amma cannot,
because of this, represent ANY kind of coherent philosophy that has some
intrinsic relationship to reality.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Denise Evans,
> >
> > If Amma were a good thing, the universe would, unequivocally,
> > be determined to demonstrate this.
>
> I have no dog in the Amma fight, but I'm wondering what
> evidence *you* have that "determination" in this sense
> is a quality of the universe. Sounds like anthropomorphism
> to me.
>
