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David2006 -- that's about the reaction I expected
The point seems to have sailed over your head. You believe that there is a spiritual realm and speak to me, someone who does not believe that a spiritual realm exists, in absolutes. I am simply pointing out to you how rude that is. I am also certain that if I stopped by your postings and began speaking in absolute terms about things that I believe to be true that happen to be the opposite of what you believe, that I would garner the same reaction from you.
posted by
gomedome
on June 20, 2006 at 8:47 AM
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So I am insane to you. So what?
I find your points very entertaining. If you can't understand in the bases of your five physical senses. It must non-existant. So therefore by your defination of your reality. A sighted person is insane to unsighted one. Do you know how dead your spirit sopunds to me? Let your dead "human" spirit mull that one over. And by the by, what is your piont in sharing these views of yours anyway? If you can't refrain from rudly expressing yourself to one of a different view?
posted by
David2006
on June 20, 2006 at 8:11 AM
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pkcricket -- all I can add is the notion of how you would view the world if
you had not been indoctrinated into a specific religion.
It is safe to say that the process of experiencing different cultures would not be an exercise in fortifying your own beliefs but an experience of true discovery.
posted by
gomedome
on June 19, 2006 at 7:44 AM
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Regarding "blind faith"...I'm not sure if I like this term. At least in my life, experiences I have had and the things I see back up what is spoken of in the Bible and I believe in it because of that. Now, where experience cannot point or discern, I guess I could have blind faith, but it doesn't retard my intelligence. Nor do I let it stop my constant desire to want to learn.
And yet whatever I've learned about other cultures, faiths, philosophies, has only reinforced what I had already chosen to believe. Theology should always be a fluid concept, always open to change. I do not agree and even get annoyed with Christians who have been taught the same thing for years and years and so choose to follow that teaching for years and years. That's a wrong way to approach life. You must be willing to be wrong, because no one will get it right at the first try. Also, many Christians are not educated, and do not grasp completely
all the doctrines and teachings of Christianity. It is in learning, and testing, that one becomes more familiar with the things of God, and, if you truly are searching, God is the creator of everything and in control of everything, and therefore, every truth you find will point to Him. Just my input. Thanks. Cricket ><>
posted by
pkcricket
on June 19, 2006 at 7:07 AM
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cantey_1975 - we tend to forget that stupid people have their religious
perspectives just like everyone else.
. . and true of any perspective, on anything, it is quite often those who have the least to add to the debate that are the most vocal. We have to remind ourselves of that when we read some of what is posted here and also remind ourselves, that these people are not necessarily speaking for anyone but themselves.
posted by
gomedome
on June 19, 2006 at 6:26 AM
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I "think"
that some people are stupid even if they believe or not. Its just that they become even more of an insufferable asshole after they " get religion" because now they finally have something they can identify with. Kind of like the loner/loser who joins some skinhead gang or something, e.g. the movie " Higher Learning".
posted by
calmcantey75
on June 18, 2006 at 9:23 PM
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