Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 16, 2003, 12:31 |
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At 20:25 14.11.2003, Ray Brown wrote:
>Certainly there are echos. We even studied the
>first part of Silmarilion in an adult catachesis
>class. In part for its beauty, in part because
>himself was a devout Catholic and it shows.
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>It seems to me that we're largely in agreement.
Yet reading JRRT strengthens my Buddhist sensibilities!
There is a strong sense of the impermanence of things,
and karma seems to be working, since good deeds do
eventually bear fruit in good experiences, and bad
deeds in bad experiences.
/BP 8^)
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