I'm not sure the concept of perfection is
as relative as you make it out to be.
Maybe there are some gray areas, but is
it totally subjective? It seems that certain
things, such as those qualities which
lead to errors, mistakes, weakness and
powerlessness would be flaws, not
perfections. Aren't things like power,
knowledge, beauty, virtue objectively
valuable? If someone doesn't see
knowledge as valuable, maybe they're
just wrong.

Hinduism has an interesting take on
whether we would have created
ourselves flawed if we were really God.
One tradition says that we are "God
hiding from himself", playing a sort of
cosmic game of hide and seek. Long ago
God exploded his being into the tiny bits
we call human souls. One day it will be
ollie oliie oxen free, and we and we will all
be One again.

Prof. Borrowdale

On 10/31/02 4:15:00 PM, Lorena
Pengraph wrote:
>i know we are on a new person
>again, but i can't help
>continuing to think about
>descartes reasoning for god.
>first of all, IF we could have
>created ourselves, everyone
>has a different idea of what
>perfection is. second, if you
>were perfect, you'ld be
>leading a pretty boring life.
>and third, we couldn't have
>created ourselves, because we
>would have to have already
>been created (this goes into
>the whole which came first,
>the chicken or the egg thing)
>just a few thoughts.
>Wolf Runner



Prof. Borrowdale
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