XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Ned wrote:   
   > Tang Huyen wrote in message   
   >> On 9/8/2016 8:31 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  I hadn't heard.  Will this require the extermination of all turtles?   
   >>   
   >> Vanish the thought! If it is turtles all the way   
   >> down, what is left if they are fully exterminated?   
   >> Will thought and the imagination, mind overall,   
   >> still exist?   
   >>   
   >> On one hand, those inclined to cynicism will say   
   >> that God knows to have fun at our expense, on   
   >> the other those inclined to grace will say that   
   >> God knows to redeem himself by way of us, but   
   >> if all vanishes, up and down, what is left, God   
   >> included? And if all vanishes, will the ensuing   
   >> nothingness still exist, forever and ever more?   
   >> Would that fall to God's competence to decide?   
   >> Er, what kind of vicious circles am I getting into?   
   >>   
   >> Tang Huyen   
   >>   
   >   
   >  The thing about circles is they always take you back to   
   >where you started.   
   >   
   >  Thus, God is a circle.  An infinite stack of turtles is quite   
   >another thing, however. "Thought, imagination and mind   
   >overall" are little jokes we play on ourselves, and have no   
   >reality.  Think of a computer or a DNA molecule.  The   
   >computer sometimes gets overloaded with its processing   
   >and then crashes.  That's thought and imagination.  The   
   >DNA molecule is somewhat of a record of everything it   
   >has ever been, like a bit-coin block chain. Most of that   
   >is irrelevant extraneous baggage (like about 99%). That's   
   >thought and memory.   
   >   
   >  It's not a matter of IF it all vanishes.  It is a matter of   
   >WHEN it all vanishes.  God and nothingness devour   
   >each other, like a ouroboros, eating its tail.  Seriously,   
   >think about what you are saying - if nothingness still   
   >exists, then it's not nothingness.  Right?   
   >   
   >  Where does that leave you?   
      
   Lost in thought?   
      
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