Posted by Woody on January 26, 19101 at 12:29:47:
In Reply to: Re: Px OS-ontology-epistemology-metaphysics-mysticism? thou/it posted by Woody on January 26, 19101 at 12:21:50:
: Loretta wrote: "Who was it that said to consider what would
happen if we conceived of this OS as a "thou" instead of an "it".
Maybe there is little practical consequence from which direction we
go here if we just call both the it and thou ---> consciousness? I
still easily square all of this with much of my Catholic
upbringing."
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: Kind of like Hegel? resolving everything dialectically, where *Spirit* (Geist) is not merely *substance* but *subject*? Loretta, this kind of monistic idealism results in a religious life that is ontological rather than ethical.
: The systems analyst running diagnostics on your Krishna OS will not be looking for throughput in the form of "fruits of the Spirit" but will enter an *infinite* loop error: "I'm finite. I'm infinite. I'm finite. I'm infinite. Ad infinitum, Ad absurdum."
: I respect that you have assimilated different religious experiences from different traditions. For the sake of clarity though, I would agree with Kierkegaard that the Hegelian philosophy yields up nothing but a pantheistic caricature of Christianity. I think that is how it would be looked upon officially in your faith of origin.
: respectfully,
: Woody