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>Relatif Tuinn wrote to Mark Bloss about (Im)perfection
 
 MB>  Nope.
 RT> So what is the reason for this imperfection?
 Our imperfection is the perfection of how we are made.  Or rather, that's
 one answer.  Since I am fully aware I don't have all the answers, I can
 only come up with a few possible explanations which agree with observations.
 
 Perhaps we _are_ capable of perfection, in the sense that we ourselves
 can become, during billions of eons, omnipotent, creating universes
 all over the place for ourselves to be Gods of.  But at this point in
 time, we are finite beings with finite understandings - none of us
 have "infinite" knowledge, nor eternal life in a human body.  Now, that
 is not to say that our spirit - or consciousness - doesn't "live"
 eternally - we have no physical evidence to disprove or confirm that;
 so it remains a _possibility_.  But if "eternal life" means that the
 essence of our beings, in our genes, get passed on to infinite ages,
 evolving on to infinite improvements - then we are but building blocks
 for future generations - only temporarily in human form.  It is how we
 are made - human - but are we not improving?  Or are we degenerating?
 Again, we have no physical evidence which confirms or disproves it.
 
 And how would one be able to gauge improvement, or degeneration, without
 the ideal of perfection, or abject despostism, clearly within our grasp?
 
 And since we cannot tell whether we are improving or degenerating, in
 concrete terms, then we do NOT have the ideal of perfection clearly 
 within our grasp, and therefore remain imperfect.  Yet, by this 
 imperfection we have learned, and are a step above the chimpanzee
 and the orangutan.  Now, tell me, is the chimp perfect?  No, but there
 is a perfect chimp.  And there are no humans perfect, but there are
 perfect humans, in all their fallibility and consternation - because
 that is what _makes_ a human, human.  
 
... "God not only plays dice, he throws them where we can't see them."
--- GEcho 1.11++TAG 2.7c
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