Auntie Bill,
Just wondering if you wanted to pick up our discussion where we left off. Let me know. Thanks.
--Mike
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Auntie Bill: Still out there?
Mike,
Hi! Yes I'm still here.
I'm back in Australia, recovered from jet lag and the hideous trip over etc.
You raised some interesting points but the fact is, I agree with Captain Bloodloss and Erich Zahn....they were able to articulate some of the things I feel and believe about ethics better than I could.
I'd like to give the ethics/morality discussion a rest.
With Buddhism, I've come through what I can only describe as "a bit of a dark night of the soul" that I had been in for about a year and I am still a Buddhist.
At the moment, whilst I do have access to the net, it's not as untrammelled as it was in Canada, so if I'm a bit slow to reply, bear with me.
Also, I'm going to be joining a nursing agency and going back to work. Unfortunately this will mean that I will have considerably less time and less mental energy to spend on this board.
Regards,
Brad
[This message has been edited by Auntie Bill (edited December 31, 2000).]
Hi! Yes I'm still here.
I'm back in Australia, recovered from jet lag and the hideous trip over etc.
You raised some interesting points but the fact is, I agree with Captain Bloodloss and Erich Zahn....they were able to articulate some of the things I feel and believe about ethics better than I could.
I'd like to give the ethics/morality discussion a rest.
With Buddhism, I've come through what I can only describe as "a bit of a dark night of the soul" that I had been in for about a year and I am still a Buddhist.
At the moment, whilst I do have access to the net, it's not as untrammelled as it was in Canada, so if I'm a bit slow to reply, bear with me.
Also, I'm going to be joining a nursing agency and going back to work. Unfortunately this will mean that I will have considerably less time and less mental energy to spend on this board.
Regards,
Brad
[This message has been edited by Auntie Bill (edited December 31, 2000).]
Auntie Bill,
No problem. I think the one thing where I got turned around on for a while and that I wanted to set straight is that I didn't really come to the conclusion in my pre-Christian life that we must receive our morality from an external source. I was pressing pretty close to the boundary between my pre-Christian and Christian philospohizing there and I think I swiped a little from the Christian side in arguing that particular point.
The point that did come from my pre-Christian philosophy was pretty much the last point to come up in my discussion with Captain Bloodloss. Here's the gist of it.
And, as I probably brought up before, Christianity was the only religion out there that actually said, "You're right. Now come see what God has done about it."
--Mike
No problem. I think the one thing where I got turned around on for a while and that I wanted to set straight is that I didn't really come to the conclusion in my pre-Christian life that we must receive our morality from an external source. I was pressing pretty close to the boundary between my pre-Christian and Christian philospohizing there and I think I swiped a little from the Christian side in arguing that particular point.
The point that did come from my pre-Christian philosophy was pretty much the last point to come up in my discussion with Captain Bloodloss. Here's the gist of it.
That's it in a nutshell. No matter what set of principles I established for myself, I realized that I had already violated them and probably would violate them again at some point -- essentially, I was a bad person no matter how I looked at it, and there was nothing I could do about it....no matter what [objective moral] system I tried to devise, I was automatically confronted by the fact that I had violated it in one way or another.
And, as I probably brought up before, Christianity was the only religion out there that actually said, "You're right. Now come see what God has done about it."
--Mike