Sunday, March 30, 2008

a common framework

when people think about something like avolokiteshvera or j. random hindu deity, or the western concepts of cherubs and angels, they don't end up putting them in the same framework, which leads to an awful amount of confusion all around: the atheists have their cake and eat it too, the agnostics just drink gin and tonics or ginger ale depending on their countenance: the upshot (or perhaps the downshot) of the phrenomics is that the western angel and the eastern multiarmed deity are two different out-of-reality cross sections of what humans might be seen to do if they could have multiple arms, or their arms could do more than a given thing at a time.

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