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- THE SECRETS OF THE NILE
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- Program by Cheryl de Boissiere
- Text by Dave Moorman
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- Come with us to explore the
- ancient enigmas of the Pharoahs.
- Cheryl brings together her research
- and graphics for our entertainment and
- enlightenment.
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- In the process, she poses some
- very interesting questions for the
- three great religions that were born
- in the Middle East. During this season
- when we celebrate the Renewal of one
- of those faiths, the Birth of another,
- and simultaneously bomb the cussedness
- out of fundamentalist of the third, we
- probably need to take a few moments to
- remind outselves of one, certain
- truth:
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- No one has all the answers. As I
- see it, there may (or -- for agnostics
- and other questioners -- may not) be
- some meta-reality beyond the physical
- universe of our five senses. Since the
- only mind any of us has was built to
- deal with the physical world, and any
- language we might speak proceeds from
- that mind, we have no adequate words
- to discuss this meta-reality.
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- So what we have are bits and
- pieces -- borrowed, stolen, used
- without permission -- from 6,000 years
- of human experience. These are brought
- together in three primary ways -- and
- hundreds of variations -- to be the
- stuff of faith.
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- And yet, the "something" that is
- at the foundation of faith is not the
- particular words.
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- So why in the world must we fight
- over the particular words? Why is this
- meta-reality used so abusively. Can
- one group be right if it forces all
- the others to use the same language?
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- As you settle down for a long
- winter's nap, ponder this --
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- Being Right has nothing to do with
- righteousness. The "final quiz" is not
- about correct doctrine, but about how
- we each spent our lives. And we all
- know the right way to spend our lives
- because we have all been on the
- receiving end of the way others spend
- their lives.
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- Happy Winterfest!
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- DMM
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