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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/30/2016 9:36 AM, Lee Dillion wrote:   
      
   > The law and the Law may be different, depending on your POV.   
      
   Rules and laws have been almost always   
   been proclaimed as Commands from On   
   High, God or the general will or whatever   
   that is taken to be the Greatest ever. But   
   as a sceptic like you, Lee my sweet and   
   loving son, well knows, or at least   
   suspects, the ultimate foundation seems   
   to be whatever prevails in convention at   
   the time and place. From the Word of the   
   Jewish Yahweh to modern Western ideas   
   of self-evident truths, to name a few   
   famous candidates, it all seems to be   
   imaginings of mere humans, admirable or   
   otherwise.   
      
   The thorn in the issue -- a black   
   sheep -- seems to come from a Nepalese,   
   the Buddha, who argues that freedom is in   
   abandoning all imaginings, concepts,   
   opinions, views, etc. Madame Guyon and   
   Fénelon rediscover the same, far though   
   they are from him in space, time, language,   
   culture, religion, etc. It can well be argued   
   that that, too, is a mere POV. Which all   
   three readily assent to, in unison. They   
   must be really lost, poor souls. Nothing   
   firm to stand on. Don't they sink right   
   down to hell, Avici specially? It couldn't be   
   more deserved.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)