In Search of God!

[Stocktracker]

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Religion: Whatever the holy book says is good!
Philosophy: Arguing what is good!
Practical Philosophy: Just being good!

 

[dealmaker]

"Don't bend, don't water it down;
Don't try to make it logical;
Don't edit your soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
- Franz Kafka

 

[dealmaker]

"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what
miracle is and you'll see them all around you."

-Jon Bon Jovi

 

[Zr1Trader]

All you ever have is the present moment. -Tolle

 

[Zr1Trader]

As soon as we free ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time, we are alive again, as in childhood, to the ecstasies of ordinary life.-Alan Watts

 

[OddTrader]

Moses conned the Israelites BUT for their own good. Did he really find the 10 Commandments written in stone on a mountain ? Of course not, he had them made and inspired the weary travellers to carry on a bit further to The Promised Land.
The problem of all the religions is that they are so old and dated. They can't evolve at all. And if someone tries to they are called heretics and persecuted.
The same is for revered Constitutions. Evolve boys as people get smarter even if it is only from trial and error.

Perhaps the worldwide governments should allow legally only authorised holy books that are printed with 'official comments' provided by committee of scholars.

These 'official comments' would be focused on only the controversial verses that could be unfairly/ wrongly/ irrationally interpreted, leading to extreme actions.

Therefore, moderate believers can rely on the 'official comments' added in authorised holy books to counteract extremists' interpretations.

Never too late!!! LOL

 

[Humpy]

Hundreds of years ago God was a great way to thwart the King's ambition. There was something higher up than the King.The Church sometimes calluded with the King when it was in their interests but sometimes vehemently opposed the King, as in the case of St. Thomas Beckett The greatest sin one could accuse another was blasphemy, sodomy or worshipping the devil.
In times of war both sides invariably claimed the justice of their cause and God was on their side.

 

[dealmaker]

"And other spirits there are standing apart.
Upon the forehead of age to come;
These, these will give the world another heart,
And other pulses. Hear ye not the hum.
Of mighty workings in a distant mart?
Listen awhile, ye nations, and be dumb.

- John Keats

 

[Zr1Trader]

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."-Alan Watts

 

[dealmaker]

"There is a way of breathing that's a shame and suffocation.
And there is another way of expiring a love-breath that let's you open infinitely."

- Rumi