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Posted by rat on 4/17/2011, 4:47 am, in reply to "quick questions first"
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: hi rat - quick questions before delving
: further
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: --Previous Message--
: In other words I will
: keep my mind open to nearly any
: possibility"
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: 1) Including the possibility that dao is
: noble?
:
: 2) Re your use of 'nearly', which
: possibilities would not be included ?
:
: p.s.. I'm assuming we're still discussing
: the perspective of ti tao zhe; is that
: right? I'm spotting a lot of 'rat' in these
: ideas (-:
:
Hi Rene
Imo it is possible that the dao is noble, and it is possible that I am immortal; and it is possible that I will go to a hell when I die. Nearly everything is possible. It is also possible that I am wrong about nearly everything. Maybe what I think is possible, is not possible.
And on the other hand, to me, it is possible that rene cannot be wrong about almost everything.
(see chapter 2 of Zhuangzi to see if this is close to the experience of the dao ren zhe)
(in the above I am talking about phenomena, not math or logical contradictions; in other words whether pigs could fly, not whether 2 + 2 can equal 5)
Imo it is not possible that I (an apparently ever changing self-aware process) do not exist. In my way of thinking, if I experience, I ipso facto exist.
That said, there are still practical/useful reasons for me provisionally assuming that the dao is not noble.
love,
rat
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-Li Daoqun
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