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Wed, 25 Sep 2002

Buddhism, Islam, and the world
I'm tired. Class ran late this evening and I didn't get out until 10:15pm. Considering I was at work at 7:30am, that was close to 15 hours on campus today -- ouch. Class was held up by some girl who couldn't understand some of the concepts in Mahavida Buddhism - namely the concept of reality being an illusion, and the way we (society/culture groups/whatever) have a shared group of experiences to allow us to perceive the same illusory object in the same way.

I don't really believe this, of course. I believe instead that my reality is really the only reality. Everyone I perceive is a manifestation of my own ego, and everything is illusory. Of course, everyone that is capable of independent thought has their own reality as well, and if our realities cross-pass, so be it but we'd never really know. We'd really never know simply because of the fact that we can't perceive the illusion of our own creation(s); the self-created illusion is convincing enough that we can't comprehend that other 'sentient beings' are really just our own illusions.

My 'project group' for Religion is going to be doing a report on Islamic stereotypes. It should be interesting, but I'll put $0.02 that Sandy thinks I picked the topic on purpose.

At any rate, after talking with Chris last week (well, email), we decided to send a note to the cavers list to see if anyone cared. Boom, traffic has swelled. Shows you what I get :-). A side note, the chief called last week to ask some questions about the list. When I get done with school I'd really like to go diving again, well after the trip to Tierra del Fuego...

Posted at: 03:48 on 25/09/2002   [ /diary ] #


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