On 03-14-98 Frank Masingill wrote to Keith Knapp... 
 FM>.  When you think about it deeply, does it appear reasonable 
 FM> that there 
 FM> could be a reality "external to ourselves?" 
Seems like I can conceive of a holodeck with nobody on it Frank. 
It could be in all other respects, identical to the one I live on. 
However, the emotional and other aspects of relational reality are 
not going to exist without us, and they are the ones we really do 
care about. 
 
 FM>  KK>   This seems to be the Buddhist view -- life just is. 
 FM>  
 FM>    There is a fundamental flaw in this reasoning, Keith, which you may 
 FM> not 
 FM> have noticed.  Whether or not life has ONE MEANING that we can some 
 FM> day know 
 FM> or agree upon, life can still have meanings and man is so constituted 
 FM> that... 
for sure. and for sure, the deck has groups of people with sets of 
ideas that define the meaning one can draw from the reality you'd 
see being with them.  Trying to expand your awareness of ideas to 
include all ideas of everyone is a bitch. 
 
 FM> within ourselves.  "Faith," in other words, is the antithesis of 
 FM> "assurance" 
 FM> no matter how many "preachers" and "theologians" wish it to be 
 FM> otherwise. 
perceptive.  does not faith always struggle with doubt?  
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