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 | | From: | david | | Subject: | Re: new video email business opportunity | | Date: | Wed, 4 Jan 2005 19:18:15 GMT |
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their mental life." And Plato makes his view clearly known when he says
that "Woman's nature is inferior to that of men in capacity for virtue."
Women are singled out for special attention in the philosophic
religions. In Hinduism, women are known as the embodiment of maya
(illusion), and avidya (the power of delusion). Buddhism regards women
to be so far away from the requirements for spirituality that the task
is especially difficult for them. One famous Buddhist leader, Nichiren,
said that "women can no more attain Buddhahood than can a dried-up seed
sprout." And finally, Carl Jung points out that "Nature has created an
extreme difference between man and woman, so that he finds his opposite
in her, and she in him." Is all this pointing towards equality of the
es? I say not.
Are all the men referred to above ordinary and ignorant cloddish males?
Are they so insecure that they cannot think clearly, and are disparaging
women to reinforce their own possibly fragile male egos? I think it
would be naive to conclude such, no matter how inviting. They are simply
facing reality.
But let us put things back in perspective before you get too angry.
Ultimately, woman and man are equal, in that we have evolved in Nature
together and to be dependent on one another. We are equal in the eyes of
God if you please, but we are certainly not equal in everyday things.
For example, woman does not have the physical strength of man, due to
her genetic inheritance. In the same way she is less qualified for the
rigours of life as an
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