Re: Has anybody read this book?

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 21:21:43 GMT

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    On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 03:55 , Keith Henson wrote:

    > such people can change religions as often as underware.

    Is that seriously offered as an uncommon or pathological condition?

    I'm totally against such a thought. What religion you are,
    culturally, is a cultural thing, completely. The fact you
    _might_ want to approach any of them _could_ be hardwired.

    But, I ain't convinced.

    Whereas, I am convinced that stimulation of certain areas will
    produce 'religious' or 'spiritual' or 'mystical' experiences,
    and such experiences will come up against the wall of
    understanding of their genesis, and that wall, up until very
    recently, was filled with gods.

    And now, it isn't.

    Brave new world that has not such beings in it.

    - Wade

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