on 8/21/2000 11:16 PM, Thryth <thrythlind@yahoo.com> wrote:
by the way...I'm of the opinion that nurture and
nature are about even...free will and all
that...besides which I also believe that the body is
more or less a tool...the best way I've heard it put
is in Empire Strikes Back..."Luminous beings are we,
not this crude matter."...is it such a stretch that
the soul fashions a body that it would be happy with?
My own opinion is that nature fashions our basic temperament and emotional
makeup, and what we do with it is up to us.
Deborah