All dogma aside, how about just basic energy management for spiritual
evolution.  Our body is bioelectric.  It radiates energy on several
different frequencies as demonstrated with Kirlian photography
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syn
ergy-co.com%2Fkirlian.html.
All we need to do it clear away the emotional static, "When you gain static,
you loose ground."
Eliminate the energy drains, "When you lay down with dogs, you wake up with
fleas.
Build on the energy we have, "Everything that goes up, must come down,
unless it gains enough velocity."
These are basic laws.  We have monitored meditating monks and know what goes
on inside their heads.  We can bring a brain to the same brain wave pattern
in minutes, rather than decades of training.
Or, we can get wrapped up with how to flog ourselves on the holiest of days,
and which way to face when you genuflect several times a day, and what kind
of tree was the tree of knowledge?

Guy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Phillips" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Ah, but in the bigger picture of the answer to "Life, the Universe, and
> Everything", it does indeed, because the "How" implies the "Why".  That
is,
> the mechanism used to generate life provides the purpose for that life.
>
> Intelligent design theory (and, for the sake of this discussion, I include
> creationism - Judeo-Christian or otherwise - in that theory) says that
some
> Creator, an outside force, purposely started life (at whatever level) on
> this planet (there is some dissension about whether this Creator
> continued/continues to direct the life it started).  This implies that the
> Creator had a purpose for this life.  Most theologies are formed to
discern
> this purpose, which is usually some higher goal that lies outside mankind.
> Thus we have the eight-fold path, the ten commandments, the Hammurabic
Code,
> etc. (ethical/moral laws) because adherents are trying to find out what
> standard of conduct the Creator intended for its creation to meet.
>
> Evolution says that there was no Creator, no outside force whatsoever,
that
> had any hand in creating life.  Life just began by pure, blind chance.
Not
> only that, but each step up the evolutionary ladder was also the product
of
> pure, blind chance.  Since there is no purpose for the creation of life,
> then there can be no standard of conduct for that life and one set of
> standards is pretty much as good as any other.  There can be no
> ethical/moral law, only a law of consensus or societal constraints that
have
> no absolutes to call upon.
>
>
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