corpus callosum wrote:Hyperspace Fool wrote:
As for not being able to compare us to a god... it is really easy. To go with the Pantheism idea a bit, how would a red blood cell in your body know if it was part of a being such as yourself. Does it's ignorance make it any less you? You can say it is a "part" of you... but alas, it contains your entire DNA.
A mature red blood cell does not contain any DNA.The analogy HF uses would be more acceptable if he referred to white blood cells.
I would
like to say I
meant white blood cell... but alas, my ignorance of biology betrays me. A simple glance at the internet shows you to be obviously correct vis a vis red blood cells.
Of course, it
has been a few decades since my University days, and my main interest in human biology tended to be in the areas of drugs, nutrition, and yoga etc.
Kind of embarrassing, but even I don't know everything. (at least not when I am not in my
G*d mode... ;-)
Swap out a nice DNA containing cell for my analogy in your mind, retroactively. While red blood cells are
still clearly part of you, the point I was getting at is that we have the potential of the whole organism in us... despite how ridiculously insignificant we might seem to its cosmic form.
Thanks CC for pointing that out.
"Curiouser and curiouser..." ~ Alice
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." ~ Buddha