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brightlotusmoon ([personal profile] brightlotusmoon) wrote2007-10-24 10:59 am

fluid spirituality

"If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview."
-Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

I replaced Buddhism with my own spiritual beliefs. I like the idea that science and faith need to work together to understand the universe. Religion should not stay five hundred yards away from science at all times.*
It's part of the reason my novel has elements of both magic and science, working in harmony.

*Name where that paraphrased quote comes from and you get a cookie.

[identity profile] poelaramont.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
True.

Well, if the subject was told that the cookie was poisoned, and that the subject would die a slow death upon ingestion, and then the cookie was forced into the subject's mouth, then the cookie would never be a source of joy for that person.

[identity profile] brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
No, the cookie would never be a source of joy... but what about other desserts?

[identity profile] poelaramont.livejournal.com 2007-10-28 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do you seek to assign labels to food? Labels just serve to divide them and prevent harmony.

[identity profile] brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com 2007-10-28 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't, I'm just thinking.

[identity profile] poelaramont.livejournal.com 2007-10-29 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't fool me. You're one of the food oppressors! I should have realized it was all a conspiracy.

You know, I'm surprised a discussion about cookies lasted this long.

[identity profile] brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com 2007-10-29 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigh.
*throws up hands*
Okay, you caught me. I am a food oppressor. It's a massive, global conspiracy, by the way. You cannot stop us!

So am I. It was fun!

[identity profile] poelaramont.livejournal.com 2007-10-29 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The Resistance shall not give up!

Ah, the philosophy of cookies. It was fun.