Breathing is bound to be just about the most worthless thing you do :-P

We've started openly talking about religeon in this thread and so far no one has freaked out, started screaming, or started tossing out death threats.

Wouldn't it be nice if the rest of the world was like GoG? Minus Dark Reign; hate that game!

Same here I also have to tip my hat to Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama

Well, I do it automatically, so it's hardly even a thing for me UNTIL SOMEONE CALLS ATTENTION TO IT, THAT IS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Now I have to do it on purpose until I manage to forget about it.

There are cults of saints. And claiming that "there IS someone greater than me : God" is not exactly the highest form of humility either. Seriously, rank quite high in the religious moral hierarchy, it's not for nothing that they are used as intermediaries between God and humans.


That's basically the case of most aspects of all religions. They're mostly cool stuff, and don't require belief to be appreciated (one could argue that not believing even helps appreciating more of them).

You just described me perfectly. I think that's what makes me a better writer. When I read mythos be it religeous or not I can really get into it and immerse myself in the style, content, characters, plot, etc etc etc without having to contend with how the biblical context is supposed to be running my life.

Dunno. I think being a true believer could be pretty cool. Like being in love, in a strange way. It certainly has inspired many great works of art, literary and otherwise.

Point taken.

Wordplay exercise:

What kind of person is "touched" and what is the original, full expression?

----

Anyway, its kind of interesting that dogs know how to live like dog, birds know how to fly, flowers "know" how to bloom and ants know how to build their nests - in essence, nature doesnt really have identity crisis.

On the other hand, we humans grow in science, but still seem to understand less and less about anything at all.

I have to agree with certain, perhaps over quoted dictator: "Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. "

Actually, we understand more and more, that's precisely the problem :-P I've had a discussion with my wife some time ago, her dad is a mason. I was wondering whether I'd be able to do his job and what does it entail. Her first answer was: "You'd be a terible mason, you'd completely overthink it." And ... Yeah. Without suggesting that I'm any smarter than her dad (who actually is pretty clever, he just actually enjoys his job), I just want to say that the more you think about something, the more you discover and understand, the more complicated is your life going to get.

That's a difficult issue, for me. In the unlikely case that I ever "find god" and join a religion, the only realistic choices are Catholicism and Protestantism. I'm now 28 years old, and for better or worse, have been indoctrinated by Christianity for the whole time. In turn, I've developed an understanding for and intimacy with that faith that no other will be able to match. Judaism might suit me more, or Eastern spirituality might fascinate me, but I don't think that studying for three years under some monk in Tibet will make me really understand Buddhism. It's just too alien. I don't get it. Hell, even Orthodox Christianity seems very far away.

On the other hand, the thought of joining these jokers makes me sick.

But it makes it exclusive. While a non-believer may have access to a wider wange of mythologies, without one being disqualified by the endorsement of another.
Given the context of this discussion, it took me three re-reads to understand that, by "mason", you meant : "mason".

Hehe, thank you for proving my point :-P

Describes me, though I'm technically Catholic (I'm Irish what did you expect :P) I appreciate and admire all religions as they're interesting and have great philosophy. Though I feel I'm slowly turning away from religion I'm afriad of becoming an Atheist for fear of becoming narrow-minded and cynical when it comes to life. That's only my opinion, no offence to Atheists.


It has inspired science as well which some people tend to forget, for example the Arabs had advanced maths for the time due to trying to measure the distance to mecca and other such religious "experiments".