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View Article  How does Hinduism help us understand what life is? Part II of II
by Daniel J. Shepard on Sun 17 Sep 2006 01:00 AM EDT

How does Hinduism help us understand what life is?

 

Part II of II

...The universe is the location, environment within which the soul can travel, experience, and learn using the body as the means of travel, the vessel of transportation and connection to the physical.

 

The means of being capable of existing within our universe is achieved  through the spiritual – the soul, the physical – the universe, the means of travel – the body, the means of connecting the physical with the spiritual and the spiritual with the physical – the mind.

 

The body being the vessel of travel within a universe created by the Causative Force holds the essence of a human being.

The body is a vessel for the soul.

 

The soul, traveling the universe within the body, is able to function within the universe and learn, experience, participate within the universe through awareness.

 

Awareness being able to connect to the soul is the function of the mind.

 

And what of life?

 

Hinduism teaches us that life is not our short existence in this universe as we know it, but rather life is what we experience today and what we will experience after “death.”

 

The Hindus believe that life as we know it is an experience the soul passes through.

 

If this is true, you can be fairly sure that the complexity of creating such an intricate process has a purpose, for it would seem to be far too intricate to have been established for no reason.

 

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View Article  Phenomenological modern day Western Ethics: Part II of II
by Daniel J. Shepard on Sun 17 Sep 2006 12:00 AM EDT

Phenomenological modern day Western Ethics:

 

 

 

Part II of II

 

Singer is not an evil man. Singer is following rationality. Singer is a thinker. But Singer has taken rationality to the extreme limits of science: The physical exists – the end.

 

But Singer has missed a major factor in his development of a model of reality.

 

Singer has examined what we know of reality, taken it to the limit of our knowledge of the physical and stopped.

 

But what Singer has refused to do is keep moving.

 

Singer has ignored what the scientific tool of observation has told us: the physical universe is expanding and that tells us we can, we have the ability, to ask: What is the physical universe expanding into?

 

Singer has ignored the tool of reason which implies: There is existence other than the physical for we are capable of perceiving it, namely self-knowing, knowledge …

 

Singer has ignored the tool of faith which has been with humanity since humanity began and which has intuitively told us that there is something greater than the physical.

 

The error of singer is none other than the error of modern Western Civilization, namely: We have lost our way. We have succumbed to our sterile laboratories. We have succumbed to the process of inductive and deductive reasoning controlled by machines which tell us what it is we can ‘believe’ and/or ‘not believe because...

 

We have lost our way.

 

One need not despair, however, for just as we have willingly arrested our metaphysical abilities we can retake control of our ability to think metaphysically anytime we wish.

 

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