Theos-Talk Archives (March 2002 Message tt00413)

Dallas:

> From antiquity, the dictum has been "Man Know Thyself" and no one has come 
up with anything better.

Until such time anyone of us is able to say "I Know Myself", all we can do 
is to consider various pieces information as working hypothesis, because I 
do not think we can take a "pill" and instantly and miraculously Know 
Ourselves (If anyone can find one, we can make a lot of money and have many 
of the things money can buy!!!!). And we, in my opinion, is in the same 
position like the blind men trying to understand and figure out the elephant.

As I mentioned some time ago, when I talked to a group in the local Church 
about the Eastern beliefs of reincarnation and karma, I explained to them 
that the principle behind is that each of us is ultimately responsible for 
everything we initiate and accounts have to be balanced sooner or later.

And this sounded very reasonable to the audience, since in day to day life, 
it is very common to find people to pass on the blame to someone else -- an 
easy thing to do and make us feel good and make us look good in the eyes of 
others.

My 0.02.

mkr

At 04:35 AM 3/23/02 -0800, dalval14@earthlink.net wrote:
> Each individual is for himself his own authority. We cannot
> delegate the ultimate responsibility of choice to any one, nor
> can we blame any one if we adopt another's program or views.