Re: An Atheist's Faith

On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:33:48 -0800, Charles & Mambo Duckman
<duckman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Bhartrhari wrote:
>
>> Brahman
>>
>
>First of all, you have to show that Brahman actually is a deity in the
>strict sense of the word. Any time that terms like "transcendent reality",
>"sum of the Universe", "consciousness" and "world soul" are bandied about,
>it just indicates that we're dealing with mushy, fuzzy and completely
>fabricated concepts that someone pulled out of his ass at some time in the past.
>Next, if Brahman stands for the "sum of the Universe", then it is nothing
>more than the Universe itself, so we can simply discard it as an irrelevant
>synonym.

Worse than that, they're mostly meaningless gobbledygook.

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