Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00394)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@e...> 
wrote:
> Dec 29th 2003
> 
> Dear Friend:
> 
> I tried to understand what you wrote, but I believe I may express 
some
> of the ideas a little different from you. Please consider:
> 
> 
> Concerning WISDOM and TRUTH..
> 
> As Ideals they exist of themselves. They are the LAWS inherent 
since
> all time in Nature (the Universe). Some call them "God's Laws." 
> 
> How they are described varies with thinkers, seers and writers. The
> words will also vary with races, languages and cycles of time.
> 
> Vanity (as I understand it to be) is a disguised desire for 
authority
> and showing off ones actual or pretended abilities. But all true 
wisdom
> or truths are self existent, they have to be "common-sense.". They 
are
> the laws of Nature and prevalent uniformly in nature. No one owns 
them
> and no one has a single master-key to them and to understanding 
them.
> They are the general property of the World / Universe. All 
thinking men
> and women have equal access to them. 
> 
> Obedience to wisdom is first an understanding of it, and then a 
willing
> adoption of its evident, common-sense processes. These are always
> cooperative; and uniformly and impersonally, life-supporting. In 
fact
> every being and everything and being is already subject to the 
Laws of
> Nature. There are no exceptions. We all use them even if we cannot
> explain them.
> 
> Brotherhood and peace as I understand them, are normal states of
> co-existence and cooperation -- each being is in its place and helps
> others as needed.
> 
> Disorder, strife, confusion and sorrow are the result of 
selfishness and
> ceasing to obey Nature's laws. In some cases this is the result of
> ignorance, and in others it is deliberate WRONG-DOING. The motives 
being
> different, the resultant Karma will differ.
> 
> Our Universe, our World, and finally our own bodies are good 
examples of
> "Unity in diversity." Also of the ability of many different types 
and
> kinds of atoms, molecules, cells, and more complex structures --
> extending to a vague comprehension of the exactitude needed to 
guide a
> living COSMOS -- Some primal; force, power, urge in every one, .. 
etc.
> .. to live together in full cooperation. 
> 
> But who guides? What is the final purpose of living and of our
> endeavors? Why are we all here? And when a life ends, and the body 
is
> dissipated - is there no future? Is reincarnation a reasonable
> alternative to fruitless living? How do we explain individual
> consciousness, and increments of intelligence? 
> 
> These are, of course, the way in which I would express my ideas on 
these
> subjects.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Dallas
> 
> =======================================
> 
> Dallas,

I found your dissertation to be both eloquent
and sound. What about truth? Once it is possessed
or claimed to be known, does it need to be defended?
Or just shared!

Alden

> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alden
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 8:31 AM
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