Re: The Universe.

> > Exactly! The Universe is what each of us CHOOSE to create thru our percepti
> > It can also be like this: "What is Is & What isn't Is". When we die, so doe
> > our PERCEIVED Universe. OTOH I doubt the Universe will miss us.
> > So why not have fun and love & care for each other?
>      I strongly disagree. If it were so, how does fun, love, care, etc.
> follow from the idea that it is our perceptions that dictate reality? It
> would be just as well to rob, kill, rape, whatever satisfies our almighty
> being - since we may then merely perceive it to be acceptable.
>      I am glad this is NOT the case. I submit that reality exists without
> regard to our mental attention to it; we are merely ill equipped sensually
> and intellectually to be able to perceive it in it's true entirety ... and
> unable as well to come to agreement on it's attributes for much the same
> reasons.

We are BOTH RIGHT! Think about it. In the universe PERCEIVED by such men as
Hitler, Stalin, Gacy, Berkowitz, etc. "rob, kill, rape" is what the thought
was RIGHT.
OTOH Your second paragraph illustrates another viewpoint which is right also.
Dave B.