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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Logic based on different sets of assumptions (part 2 of 2)
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Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 16:17:18 EST
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From Mike Huybensz:

	The dishonest thing about all this is that here is where Occam's razor
	should properly be applied, not as in all the places in the previous
	note where Paul tried to misapply it.  Paul overlooks the Allah
	proposition, the Buddha proposition, the Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva
	proposition and a zillion others just like his.  What all those
	"propositions" have in common, is an assumption of one or more deities.

These propositions do *not* have this in common. You have Rich Rosen's
disease. I know a good many Hindus and even more Buddhists who would be
appalled that you consider either the Buddha, or Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva
deities. I know fewer Moslems, but those I know would claim that Paul's
God and Allah are *exectly* *the* *same* God and so he is not ignoring
their ``propositions'' -- merely the revelation of the Koran, which is,
of course, a very serious mistake -- rather much like the mistake both
Moslems and Christians agree that the Jews made in ignoring the
revelation of the New Testament.

	These "propositions" all share the "natural flow" with the scientific
	viewpoint.  Things happen -- that is the natural flow. These "propositions"
	just use a diety to power or direct the happenings.  Thus, the diety is
	an excess assumption.  It may exist, but it gives no more explanatory
	power.

Excuse me, but things do not happen. If you think that they do you are
stuck up to your ears in maya. When you finally understand that things do
not exist and thus do not happen, then you will be a lot closer to
enlightenment. In the meantime, how about not misprepresenting Buddhism,
okay?

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura