Theos-Talk Archives (October 1999 Message tt00034)

Randy,

In a message dated 10/10/99 8:44:15 AM, you wrote:

>I would like to discuss with interested parties self-evident truths.  If you 
>were alone on an isolated island, what could  you come up with in terms
>of your origin, purpose and destiny.  What I'm looking for is to assemble
>self-evident truths that could be apparent to any thinking person and not
> parroted constructs from"holy books" or  sages...unless these are revealing
>.

The question first has to be answered; What have we learned (or think we 
learned) about "such self-evident" or other accepted "truths"--before we 
became "alone on an isolated island"?  "Thinking persons"--having different 
backgrounds, different karma, and different heritage--are also different in 
how they think.  Therefore, what one person thinks is a "self evident truth" 
based on whatever point of view taken, what presumptions made, and what logic 
used, may not be so self evident to another.  Of course this doesn't preclude 
the "self evident truth" that one is what one has thought, as Buddha pointed 
out (and as Popeye confirmed when he said, "I am what I am, cause I am what I 
am").  

>My feeling is that this is the starting point for any grounded cosmogony
>or life philosophy.  Let me know if you are interested.  I can send you the
>ideas I have thus far assembled.

Don't know about that.  How can one base an understanding of a "cosmogony" or 
"philosophy of life" on anything "self evident" to someone else?  But, if you 
meant that the starting point is finding those "self evident truths" for 
yourself (with the help of such sages like HPB, Buddha or Krishna, for 
example)--I'm all for it.

So, I, for one, am interested in what ideas you have thus far assembled, and 
would very much like to see them discussed in an open forum such as this.  

LHM

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