04-27-2010, 06:36 AM
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warrior bodhisattva
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Location: East-central Canada
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Originally Posted by DaveOrion
Wow, you mean there are contradictions in a book that was.............
* written over a 1500 year span (from 1400 B.C to A.D. 100)
* over 40 generations
* over 40 authors from many walks of life (i.e. - kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, scholars)
* in different places (i.e. - wilderness, dungeon, palaces)
* at different times (i.e. - war, peace)
* in different moods (i.e. - heights of joy, depths of despair)
* on three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe)
* in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek)
* before scientific methodology
Go Figure?
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They should set up an editorial panel and do a complete revision. Maybe call it the Revised Testament or something.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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