Reply #2: I agree with that.

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It seems like a contradictory thing - you might think those who operate from the head would NOT be operating out of emotions and reactions. Of course THAT is what the head would say :) .


I think that is part of what I have been wrestling with. It is one thing to intellectually reject god/desses - if one wants to be logical and all.

It's another thing to reject all that seems illogical - such as one's heart, one's intuition, the insights you get from meditation.

Even Sam Harris (the big anti-religionist) claims to meditate - to like Zen. Of course - I see Zen as a religion - so I see him as illogical :) .

Being overly sure in one's logic and being overly sure that others are illogical seems like a problem - esp. when it comes to religion.


Or the whole myth thing. Some people think that they are so smart because they don't believe in myths. But it seems to me that the thing about myths is the message in the myth. The fact that some (really illogical) people think that some myths are true should not keep people from learning the messages that can be found in myths. Of course - even then - people are not going to all agree about what the myths mean.

I've been reading about the Adam and Eve myth - and how the Gnostics had all of the interpretations that are completely contradictory to what is now the standard Christian interpretation. Religion shouldn't be about - "this is the only interpretation" of this thing. That is someone's logic (or what they think to be their logic) taking over.

Anyway - I agree that logic (or what we think is logic) can get in the way of productive thinking. As illogical as that can seem.

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