Ymar under a tree
The Urth list — 6 messages, 5 voices, 20 Jul 2010
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António Pedro Marques — 20 Jul 2010, 21:27

Why does this scene keep popping up in the story?

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Matthew Keeley — 20 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?

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brunians at brunians.org — 20 Jul 2010, 22:42
  in reply to Matthew Keeley

Would an enlightened person be just?

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> Maybe he's a Buddha-like figure? The "Almost" in his name indicating
> he has yet to achieve enlightenment?
> _______________________________________________

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Adam Thornton — 20 Jul 2010, 23:01
  in reply to brunians at brunians.org

> On 07/20/2010 05:42 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Would an enlightened person be just?
>    

Just enlightened.

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brunians at brunians.org — 20 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.

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> On 07/20/2010 05:42 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

> > Would an enlightened person be just?

> Just enlightened.
> _______________________________________________

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John Watkins — 20 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.

> 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?
>  _______________________________________________

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