http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/05/15/blogging-is-dukkha/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blogging-is-dukkha n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/05/15/blogging-is-dukkha/comment-page-1/#comment-10753 conradg Fri, 16 May 2008 04:07:10 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/05/15/blogging-is-dukkha/#comment-10753 The problem here, of course, is that everyone thinks that their religion has the true, universal core of reality going for it, whereas everyone else's religion is a cultural artifact with some relationship to that core, perhaps, but is otherwise "in error". Even the neuro-spiritualists (and on some days, in some contexts, that might include me) think they've boiled it all down to the essence, the very "nature" of Nature. The most probably truth is that everyone has it wrong in one way or another, and simply can't see their own mistakes well enough to overcome them. The problem here, of course, is that everyone thinks that their religion has the true, universal core of reality going for it, whereas everyone else’s religion is a cultural artifact with some relationship to that core, perhaps, but is otherwise “in error”. Even the neuro-spiritualists (and on some days, in some contexts, that might include me) think they’ve boiled it all down to the essence, the very “nature” of Nature. The most probably truth is that everyone has it wrong in one way or another, and simply can’t see their own mistakes well enough to overcome them.

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