The demand of loving one's neighbor as oneself can seem not just difficult but absurd, but wasteful or even at times suicidal. Consider though who your neighbor is when not present - a superposition. They left an impression of words and signal within your nervous system, uniquely from them to you. Who they are to others is always different story. When one thinks about things, people, words, names, ideas, all of this is instantiated within one's body. How could anything, any name, any word, form or number...not be within oneself, as oneself, in oneself? And the body, that consciousness clearly depends on, is more than its apparent 3D form. The body is, scientifically, one with the river of all space and time, for where does it end or begin? The real form of the human body could very well be formless, boundless... as when I look out of these eyes, neuroscience justifies the claim that all 'out there' is processed within me. We know that a healthy human body depends on a good, integrated signal, as a dead body doesn't have these. Death is likely a bad idea...not justified scientifically nor by any means but as a measure of the un-explicated bloodsport of life, where who's right or smart is largely measured by status. Death is a sapping of the program or signal in the body, when someone frowns at your idea, instills false doubt, often to give themselves reassurance that nothing new is to be learned or considered from your point of view, and that what you see means nothing. What did I do to intimidate my brother? What false spirit carried me away to this place where the truth I speak, a truth needed to be told, is corrupted by an age-old tinge of resentment? My consideration of him as I digest the Word of him within me, (think about him) to find out how to better treat him in reality, has a limit...when no amount of reason suffices, but only intimidates him even more. I will be no scapegoat. We all take on the sins of each other in varying degrees....but it's an insult to us all for someone to waste their fullest human potential to enable their brother's vice. "Bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who abuse you" ... ...it may be helpful for westerners to think of this as simple - aa neuro-linguistic programming, something to emphasize within more than without, for their names, all names, all words, all mathematics...is within the Self, which is eternal - the realm of ideal forms is the realm of imagination. God is imaginary, like the 'meta' is above the physique...but it in our nature to make dreams come true, and not to persist in wasteful fantasies. ############################ To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1