"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." -Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Dire que le monde ne vaut rien, que cette vie ne vaut rien, et donner pour preuve le mal est absurde, car si cela ne vaut rien, de quoi le mal prive-t-il?"
-Simone Weil

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Re: Conversion Post

In case you haven't yet noticed the comments on the conversion post: check them out. Thank you Jeff and Rositsa for your excellent contributions to the discussion. I've been thinking a lot about your comments over the last few days, and plan to respond sometime later this week.

In the meantime, I would genuinely love to hear from more readers of this blog on this topic, so please feel free to comment! It would be great to get some specific perspectives on various understandings of conversion in different traditions (Kirsten - Conversion to Islam?; Christopher, Elizabeth - Conversion to Orthodoxy? Ethan - I know you're internet fasting - but any Buddhist perspectives on the Identity/Self distinction? Evan - What would Dostoyevski and Tolstoy say? Kara, Brandon - Any thoughts?)

P.S. In case you're worried about using names on this site: this is a closed blog (i.e. it cannot be found via internet searches).

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