2000 years ago. feels like this line of development got frozen in time.
how about instead of an eschatology we have an awakening? evolution and change are guaranteed in this world and not particularly our immediate concern. what if we wake up to our own responsibility to make the world a better place in our own time with the means we have?
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yes, the presence of that craving is the source of dissatisfaction (me getting slightly doctrinaire at this point, apologies). we ARE the cosmos on an essential level. our feeling of separateness from it is in many ways adaptive but psychologically distressing none-the-less.
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I've come to view this as a false dichotomy and one day I hope to know what words to use to communicate the insight properly. I fear it escapes me at the moment or else you'd be subjected to much too much of my word salad.
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I would believe them insofar as they are reporting what they really experienced. I would not accept any effort of theirs to get me to agree that their vision is an objective truth that applies universally. Their may be ethical principles that can be distilled out of it though.
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nothing needs to be saved but that does not mean we are not responsible for ourselves and our community and our planet. things can be ruined even though they need not be saved.
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