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I posted these questions to the ADF Druidry list...more stuff to think about. A little less practical than previous questions, but no less interesting...this is just copied and pasted from my email...

What's more important- actual experience, or the memory of an experience?
I was just thinking of the movie Blade Runner. The replicant Rachel doesn't know she's not human. She has memories of piano lessons, a spider outside her bedrom window, a picture of her with her mother when she was a little girl. This was what made her unique from the other replicants- memories and no defined lifespan. The memories were not real, but they were real to her.

Does my memory of the college classes I've taken and the things that I learned from them matter more than the fact that I actualy took those classes? In respect to teaching the lesson of not touching a hot stonve- does a child's memory of getting burned on a matter more, or the fact that he was actually burned?

If you believe in certain deities, or a certain pantheon...to what extent should you believe in their particular myths? Or is it okay if you see them as parables, metaphors or some other non-literal teaching tool?

If you had the chance to know the absolute truth about everything- how the world really came to being, how humans became humans, who or what really controls everything, does anyone actually already have it right... Would you take that chance? What if you had the chance to know the absolute truth about any one question- would you take it? What truth would you want to know?

Where do you draw the line between life and existance? Or is there a line?

What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about? (Okay, now I'm just being silly.)
How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop? (Sorry, couldn't resist...)