Ymar under a tree

The Urth list — 6 messages, 5 voices, 20 Jul 2010
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5669

António Pedro Marques20 Jul 2010, 21:27
Why does this scene keep popping up in the story?
Matthew Keeley20 Jul 2010, 21:44

↳ in reply to António Pedro Marques

Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating he has yet to achieve enlightenment?
brunians at brunians.org20 Jul 2010, 22:42

↳ in reply to Matthew Keeley

Would an enlightened person be just? .
2 quoted lines
Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating he has yet to achieve enlightenment? _______________________________________________
Adam Thornton20 Jul 2010, 23:01

↳ in reply to brunians at brunians.org

3 quoted lines
On 07/20/2010 05:42 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote: Would an enlightened person be just?
Just enlightened.
brunians at brunians.org20 Jul 2010, 23:09

↳ in reply to Adam Thornton

I think he might get close. But to be just, I just don't see it. .
4 quoted lines · 1–2 deep
On 07/20/2010 05:42 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
Would an enlightened person be just?
Just enlightened. _______________________________________________
John Watkins20 Jul 2010, 23:48

↳ in reply to Matthew Keeley

In Scholastic thought, the virtues as we know them, including justice, are not real things in themselves, but human participation in eternal virtues (the names of those escape me.) Humans in Heaven will attain these eternal virtues, but will find that even they are only the lesser shadows of divine virtues. So ever someone who is "just" on Earth is not "just" in the same sense as someone who is "just" in Heaven, and even that person would not be "just" in the sense that God is just.
4 quoted lines
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>wrote: Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating he has yet to achieve enlightenment? _______________________________________________

Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.