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Patience, you can be a good teacher of philosophy. Very good writing.

Thanks Das, that's kind of you, but I don't know about being a teacher of philosophy! (smile) But I do know a lot about DID or as it is often called, Multiple Personality Disorder! I am moving toward integration with one of my major 'parts' at present. This part is very much the 'logical' part of me, so perhaps it is she you are hearing!

Patience.

Folks,

apologies for the fact that I sometimes can't get on the forum for a few days.

Patience, thanks so much for that insight into DID. I suspected your original point was not too serious but nonetheless from a philosophical point of view it certainly does raise some interesting questions about personal identity. For example, might it be possible for the child to split before birth due to some trauma in the womb and if so who would the primary or original person be then? And even without any splitting of personalities, just when do we become who we are? Can we pinpoint that at all?

Conversely, what about Siamese twins who share some brain functions and seem to have only one personality between them? (I don't actually know if this physically possible so keep me right if I'm talking bollo.... nonsense.) Would we say that although there are two bodies there is only one person, or how would we describe this?

Alexandra, yup I'm with you on the "god in man's image" analysis. These days I tend to see religion very much in a sociological context. A social system created or evolving because it was useful. But that's a whole different debate.

On the Buddhist teachings regarding emptiness, a couple of years ago here at Samye Ling I sat in on parts of a course taught by, I think, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and found myself being reminded of The Meditations of Rene Descartes.

You can probably guess I'm quite hard nosed when it comes to questions about the existence of the physical world but it never does any harm to question things. I wasn't convinced by the conclusion that material objects are illusory - if walls don't exist why do Lama's always use the door? :o) - but the point that our perceptions are only one of many possible perspectives is a truly important point to remember.

Finally das, the argument above about not surviving after death was not meant to catch you out or score points over you, but I think you know that okay. Like Alexandra I just love exploring the paths where logic leads.

All the best to you all,

Chik

because it's not there.... *Cheezy grin*

Patience, I suffer from PTSD.
I am right now on Cipralex but I get very quick mood swings.
Do you know much about PTSD?

Why does God make crippled children?

Hi Cathy!!! Welcome to the board!!! JesusFreak is band in all his her it s many alters txdave jesusislord....there were many!!

but to answer your question have you ever read or heard the story the Craked pot or the crippled lamb? they are storyes about how God can do good things with what we think are broken or unusible...

the cracked pot is a story about a woman who carried to pots on a stick across her shoulders so she could carrie water back to the house but one pot was craked when someone asked her why she did this she replied because the pot is old but it still carries the water. even though it leeks It waters the flowers along my path!"

the crippled lamb I have forgoten parts of the story.... it has been years sense i have read or heard it but the parts that I remember i love!

the point to the stories is God takes the infermities and the weak the people and things that we look past or throw away and He does great things in their lives and in the eyes of others.

cripple kids are a daily reminder to be thankful for what we have healthy children or our own health but they also teach us faith love and hope. if you have ever worked with a downs child you will see unconditional love! if you ever work with a child with canser you see bravery! determenation to do such little things that we take forgranted a child who cant walk but is determent to do it any ways!

yeah God has a reason and a plan! if the only thing that a young life taken far to early from this earth does it make an impacted in one persons life to make a positive change in their life and in the world....then the death was not in vain and there life was worth living even for a short time.