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From: jtm@syteka.UUCP (Jim McCrae)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Believing In God
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:05:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 19:05:37 1985
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I believe in God. I don't go to any church or adhere to any
religion, and I don't believe I'm meat with software in it,
either. I'm happy with an old line of logic that has yet to
be improved upon, in my humble, somewhat educated opinion.
What part of me is consciousness with no object before it?
When I think or am at all aware of myself, I am myself as
an object of some consciousness. If I move one step "deeper"
into my "self", I am aware of my being conscious. "I" must
always be aware of something; that is the nature of being
one of us separated-out things, we who see a whole world
distinct from ourselves. At some level in the mechanics of
the process of awareness, there is the "stuff" of consciousness,
the raw being of consciousness. God is right there. And I'll
probably never find out any more about it until I die. Probably.
I frequently think Buddhism explains things in a way I can
agree with, but then they get into the pain and denial and
pointlessness of it all and I get skeptical. Begins to sound
like a few Botthisattvas had a grudge against an old girlfriend.

Humbly submitted by: Jim McCrae - {decvax,hplabs}!sytek!jtm