--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 wrote:
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> It's an interesting idea, but indeed may not show much.
> Wouldn't the capacity for language be "hard-wired" into
> the human brain? The fact that feral children don't
> develop language skills doesn't invalidate that the
> capacity exist
It's an interesting idea, but indeed may not show much. Wouldn't the
capacity for language be "hard-wired" into the human brain? The fact
that feral children don't develop language skills doesn't invalidate
that the capacity exists.
Jill Bolte Taylor's articulation of her experience having a strok
I have a great idea Sal - Why doesn't Rick make you the Grammar Cop here on
FFL? That way you can be the final arbiter on whether or not posts actually see
the light of day! You can join the self-proclaimed Posting Time Police too. Its
an exciting prospect, don'cha think?
The other benefit is
On Mar 26, 2011, at 5:07 PM, tartbrain wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote:
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>> Actually the only God the separate and isolated ego will accept as real is
>> the one it is better than; the God that can be judged, figured out and
>> controlled; the illusory God th
Yeah, the term "open mind" used conventionally is all the things you say - not
really open at all, for all the baggage it carries. Perhaps calling it an
innocent mind or a mind always open to any possibility beyond conception is a
better way to put it. A desire for liberation, even at the expens
An open mind that leads to the 3 V's to Vaairagya, Viveka and Vichaara and not
intellectual self deception.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote:
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> Even an open mind is all about concepts, analysis, conclusions,
> understandings, frameworks, and all. Seems a pretty weak to
Even an open mind is all about concepts, analysis, conclusions, understandings,
frameworks, and all. Seems a pretty weak tool to become aware of
unboundedness, beyond concepts, beyond logic, beyond conclusions, beyond
frameworks.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote:
An open one.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote:
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>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote:
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> > Actually the only God the separate and isolated ego will accept as real is
> > the one it is better than; the God that can be judged, figured out and
> >
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote:
> Actually the only God the separate and isolated ego will accept as real is
> the one it is better than; the God that can be judged, figured out and
> controlled; the illusory God than loses every argument. Actual God can never
> be k
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine
> wrote:
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> > On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:10 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
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> > > I did a couple of Google searches to see if
> > > I could find any instance of one of these
> > > feral ki
Also, how can a *theory* ever be true? Either the reality is lived, or it
isn't. Static theories are less useful than dirt.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb
> wrote:
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> > If the theory that God is "hard-wired" int
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine
wrote:
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> On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:10 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> > I did a couple of Google searches to see if
> > I could find any instance of one of these
> > feral kids developing a sense of God or some
> > kind of deity on their own, and found
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb
wrote:
> If the theory that God is "hard-wired" into
> our brains is true, one would think that such
> feral kids would develop a sense of God. But
> my short reading of "feral children stories"
> does not suggest that any such thing ever
> happen
I think the reason people become alienated from religion is not because God
doesn't exist, but that religion has forgotten how to provide the tools for our
direct experience of God. Instead the leaders of the Christians, Jews, Hindus,
Buddhists and Muslims insist that they are the necessary inte
On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:10 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
>> 'm not convinced at all there is any inherent
>> "need" to believe in some kind of unseen "order," way.
>> Supposedly humans have to be seriously
>> indoctrinated in the idea of a deity because the
>> brain on its own just doesn't want to go the
Something is wrong with this survey. When people say that they have no
religious affiliation, it does not mean they have no religion. They may have
some religious belief, but they're just not affiliated with any of the churches
in their country.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoi
Sal Sunshine:
> I'm not convinced at all there is any inherent
> "need" to believe in some kind of unseen "order,"
> way...
>
There once was a teacher who, always looking up
at the clouds, fell into a ditch, and hurt himself
really bad. You can test this by climbing to a very
high mountain and ju
turquoiseb:
> My experience on this planet is that those who
> profess a belief in determinism and a lack of
> belief in free will is that compassion and
> spending time helping others are...uh...not
> actly the qualities that these people believe
> live...
>
There are innumerable proofs that
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote:
> >
> > I'm not convinced at all there is any inherent
> > "need" to believe in some kind of unseen "order," way.
> > Supposedly humans have to be seriously
> > indoctrinated i
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote:
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> On Mar 25, 2011, at 8:22 AM, wayback71 wrote:
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>
> > am not sure that the idea of relative utility applies to all aspects of
> > religion or spiritual belief - altho certainly to some aspects. I think
> > there is something ab
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced at all there is any inherent
> "need" to believe in some kind of unseen "order," way.
> Supposedly humans have to be seriously
> indoctrinated in the idea of a deity because the
> brain on its own just doesn't want to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
> > >
> > > The bottom line of the study is in the first sentence:
> > > "A new study claims that religion may b
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote:
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> On Mar 25, 2011, at 8:22 AM, wayback71 wrote:
>
>
> > am not sure that the idea of relative utility applies to all
> >aspects of religion or spiritual belief -
Well, belief aside there is spiritual experience.
Yep, like in the p
On Mar 25, 2011, at 8:22 AM, wayback71 wrote:
> am not sure that the idea of relative utility applies to all aspects of
> religion or spiritual belief - altho certainly to some aspects. I think
> there is something about religious belief (which may not mean you are a
> church member) that i
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
> >
> > The bottom line of the study is in the first sentence:
> > "A new study claims that religion may be on the way out
> > in some parts of Europe, largely because it isn't
The bottom line of the study is in the first sentence: "A new study
claims that religion may be on the way out in some parts of Europe,
largely because it isn't as useful to adherents as it once was."
Tens of thousands of people are attending rival mass rallies in Yemen's capital
Sanaa, a week
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> Now *this* is a study I'd love people to get into discussing here, if
> they can do so without rancor. ( OK, I know that's a lot like saying
> "Here's a bone I'd like this pack of wild dogs to appreciate without
> fighting over," but on
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
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>
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 6:05 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > The bottom line of the study is in the first sentence: "A new study
> > claims that religion may be on the way out in some parts of Europe,
> > largely because it isn't as u
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