On 2 Nov 2004 23:01:03 -0800, -ammitusen-@excite.com (Ayin) wrote:

>Jahnu <jahnudvip@removeyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:
 
>
> i have never understood why some folks believe that some guy, long
>dead and dust, has more authority than anyone else.

The Vedic sages are not dead and dust. They live for an unfathomable
length og time on the various higher planets of the universe. Some of
them live as log as the universe exists. To them you are like and ant.
You 'll have been born and died a 100 times before they even finished
their morning ablutions.

>why would i
>consider the imaginings of some "sage" or "holy man" to be more valid
>than my own imaginings?

Why should you imagine that the Vedas are just the imaginings of
someone? Why can't they be the manual from God, like they claim?

>i have a wonderful imagination and am able to
>imagine myself as male or female, i can imagine myself not only living
>in the past but in future scenarios too.  i can imagine myself flying
>as a bird or swimming as a dolphin or existing as some being on
>another planet.  in my imagination i can be .. well .. anything or
>anyone imaginable.

So you can imagne many things. Why can't imagine there is a God, and
He has provided humanity with a manual through which He and nature can
be known?
 
>knowledgable about God than anyone else?

Eh, maybe because they are.

>don't get me wrong .. i
>really enjoy the stories in the Gita.  the Krishna myths are very
>colorful, imaginative and lush .. lots of neat characters and cool
>battles with demons and such.  but i enjoy sci fi too and i got as
>much spiritual insight from Frank Herbert's Dune books as i did from
>any "sacred text" i've read.

That's ok. That doesn't say anything, though, about whether Bhagavad
Gita is just myth as you assume, or real facts about God. How will you
find out? Have you investigated the matter?

>there might be such a thing as reincarnation .. could be such things
>as parallel universes and simultaneous timelines too but since theres
>no way (as yet) to prove such concepts to be fact, i being self
>honest, will remain agnostic.  if there's anything to experience after
>my body dies i'll experience when i get there.  might be a real
>adventure .. might be nothing at all.

Why be satisfied with speculation and belief when you can know for
certain?


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