The Ten Thousand Faces of God
"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot,
yet he creates gods by the dozens." - Montaigne
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The Ten Thousand Faces of God |
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"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, |
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yet he creates gods by the dozens." - Montaigne |
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and please, no-one take offense...I respect everyone's right to believe in whatever they want, so long as it doesn't infringe on my right to be just as stupid ... so check out some folks' beliefs ... |
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Apocalyptic
Fundamentalist Christianity
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| And just to put some of my religious inclinations on the table, let me tell you a | |
| little about the closest thing to a sane religion I've found on good old planet earth. |
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First - I could never understand western monotheism; Judeo-Christo-Islam makes no sense to me and is too obviously a product of anthropomorphic externalization. I just can't accept that the creator of this universe is as petty as us humans. In India, Hinduism and Buddhism both start with a basic premise I can't accept - that life is shit. And all of these traditions consider humankind to be wholly other than nature. I don't buy that. As for China, most people have only heard of Confucius. But there is another major Chinese philosophy, Taoism. Lao Tsu, an elder contemporary of Confucius, was keeper of the imperial archives at Loyang in the province of Honan in the sixth century B.C. All his life he taught that "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao"; but, according to ancient legend, as he was riding off into the desert to die - sick at heart at the ways of men - he was persuaded by a gatekeeper in northwestern China to write down his teaching for posterity. The essence of Taoism is contained in the eighty-one chapters of the book - roughly some 3000 words - which have for 2500 years provided one of the major underlying influences in Chinese thought and culture, emerging also in proverbs and folklore. Whereas Confucianism is concerned with day-to-day rules of conduct, Taoism is concerned with a more spiritual level of being. A Taoist would agree that the only book that God has written, is nature. But read what Lao Tsu had to say... |
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the only book the Creator wrote, is nature |
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