Theos-Talk Archives (July 2006 Message tt00113)

Daniel,

Have you being reading Sidgwick's book on "The Methods of Ethics"? 
Or is it instinctive? 

Regards,  Carlos. 




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Data:Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:01:34 -0000

Assunto:[Spam] Theos-World In the Public Market Place of Ideas

> In the public market place of ideas,
> which can be seen, for example, on the
> WWW, on television, in books, etc., there
> are many, many competing and contradictory
> ideas, teachings, supposed "truths", etc.
> 
> For example, there are persons who tell you
> that you have only one life to live and after
> that, you go either to heaven or hell, to enjoy 
> heavenly delights for all eternity or
> to suffer forever in hell.
> 
> There are those who tell you that you
> have only one life to live and after that,
> you will enter either the kingdom of God which will
> be this physical world reborn or you will
> be (as a soul) utterly destroyed and annihilated
> in Gehenna.
> 
> There are those who tell you that science
> shows that there is no life after death.
> Once our physical body is dead, our psychological
> life also ceases. We are merely material physical
> entities and the concept of a soul is sheer nonsense.
> 
> There are those who tell you that this is
> the first life of many "lives", but that our
> future lives with all be in higher non-physical realms.
> 
> There are those who tell you that we live
> many lives besides this life, but that many
> of these lives are actually on other planets
> in our solar system or even on other star systems.
> 
> There are those who tell you that there is
> a ceaseless round of births, deaths and rebirths
> for each of us but that we will be trapped
> in these lower worlds UNTIL we find a true
> physical guru who can help us to escape this suffering
> round of births and deaths.
> 
> There are those who tell you that we don't
> need to reincarnate after death in another
> physical body in this world, but that we
> can choose any kind of life we want. We need
> only to believe it's true and it is!
> 
> There are those who tell you that we belong
> to different group souls and that we will not
> necessarily exist after the death of our physical
> body as a separate entity but will be absorbed
> back into a certain group soul. The essence
> of our being will merge with the group soul.
> 
> And the list goes on.
> 
> Even in Theosophical teachings, there are many
> conflicting and contradictory ideas depending on
> the Theosophical book you happen to read.
> 
> Where lies the "truth" in this morass of beliefs, claims
> and counterclaims?
> 
> Daniel
> http://hpb.cc
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