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At 07:48 PM 11/1/03 -0500, Eli wrote:<br><br>
Why must Buddha be the mouthpiece of a future civilization to be
respected? Why can't he be an ordinary human, absolutely no
different from you, in the midst of squalor and ignorance, who decided
*on his own and without any help* to be nice to people? Isn't this
truth more tragic and heroic and beautiful and, above all, true, than any
bad science fiction that might be written about it? Why must the
explanation sound mystical to be accepted?<br><br>
Excellent. Beautiful. Yes.<br><br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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