Re: Brehons. . . Aicerno OCathasaigh akiernox_ocasey@hotmail.com Wed Mar 3 08:44:48 1999 Hmmm. . . that is a point to be made about sacrifices to be sure. But I've wondered about that. I cannot say I know, for I don't, indeed I know too little. Still. . . I am not saying so much as to deny life as to give those who choose to die an option on how they're going to go.*br*It is all individual choice, no question about it. As far as the issue that religions as a whole have moved away from those beliefs, I pose the question: Have we really moved away, or do we avoid such things because we fear that which the ceremony most connects to? After all, death and birth are such fundamentals of life that one could say that they are the same thing. For when one is born, do not they die whereever it is that their soul came from? The biological part is simple to understand the child is created from a mass of cells that come from the 'death' of the sperm and egg when they fuse. But I've come to notice that children, even when a day old or so, have something intrinsic that goes beyond the realm of biology (or is this a case of inherited memory?). ANd when one dies, are not they reborn in some other realm to await their death there and be reborn in this realm?*p* The most important thing about the entire concept is that it is discussed openly, so that knowledge can be aquired, and then used towards a certain end.*p* As I have to get to class shortly, I'll end here. . .*p*Slan is beannacht*p*Aicerno*br* Re: Brehons. . . Searles 391 Wed Mar 3 00:35:12 1999