Someone made a comment as to my using 'We' on the list of questions a few posts back. I used the word we in reference to we, as the human race! This is a semantic disagreement. It was 'We' not leaving myself out. If I say, "How long is the human race going to", it is a bit cold, depersonalized and it is sounds like I am leaving myself out. I then could be accused of thinking myself superior. If I would say, "How long are the the Jews or the Muslims or the Christians," it is separating myself from them.
Now, think about this in reference to religious works that were written hundreds and hundreds of years ago, which we expect to translate literally and were often times written in poetic language. If you add to this that we are all in human form and the consciousness of spirit has to filter down through a mind of certain time period's knowledge and experience, even in saints, and then add to that, holy books were often written way after the fact, and add to that a myraid layer of interpretative dialogues and works. You have got The Tower of Babel.
So what are the things that people are in agreement about: how about love, peace, respect, ending hunger, protecting the environment, safety at one's work, safety where one lives and education. What if we made that our religion, and the rest gets left inside one's self and not put on others.
Every day I think about the fact that here in the U.S. people who are pro life for an unborn child are also pro war, and I just shake my head. Perhaps, it is just to much to expect that we all give up our fanaticism for something greater. The world is as it is. We have all made mistakes.
The Indian Tribes were killing each other, and we just came in and killed bigger and better and with more clothes on. The Africans had slaves and sold them to the whites, and the present day radical Christians don't sound any different to me than the Muslims who think Jihad is attacking the enemy and not an internal battle. We are not better than families who have been feuding for generations. How long can this go on till we fall into the arms of something more civilized and more divine. And if someone is offended with my use of the word we, I suggest that they talk from where they have agreement to me, so as not to continue this mess. We are together in this, and we can destroy each other! Unfortunately, easily! Maybe, we should all become Buddhists, because there has never been a war fought in the name of Buddhism. Ahh, but then we have to think about what sect. The one's that the Chinese were persecuting, while they had the Olympics or the ones that are in Japan and have their own political party. It goes on and on and on and on. Just yesterday a friend told me that now the Baha'i are going door to door proselytizing in his neighborhood. He brought them in and had a conversation with them about what they agreed about!
Now, think about this in reference to religious works that were written hundreds and hundreds of years ago, which we expect to translate literally and were often times written in poetic language. If you add to this that we are all in human form and the consciousness of spirit has to filter down through a mind of certain time period's knowledge and experience, even in saints, and then add to that, holy books were often written way after the fact, and add to that a myraid layer of interpretative dialogues and works. You have got The Tower of Babel.
So what are the things that people are in agreement about: how about love, peace, respect, ending hunger, protecting the environment, safety at one's work, safety where one lives and education. What if we made that our religion, and the rest gets left inside one's self and not put on others.
Every day I think about the fact that here in the U.S. people who are pro life for an unborn child are also pro war, and I just shake my head. Perhaps, it is just to much to expect that we all give up our fanaticism for something greater. The world is as it is. We have all made mistakes.
The Indian Tribes were killing each other, and we just came in and killed bigger and better and with more clothes on. The Africans had slaves and sold them to the whites, and the present day radical Christians don't sound any different to me than the Muslims who think Jihad is attacking the enemy and not an internal battle. We are not better than families who have been feuding for generations. How long can this go on till we fall into the arms of something more civilized and more divine. And if someone is offended with my use of the word we, I suggest that they talk from where they have agreement to me, so as not to continue this mess. We are together in this, and we can destroy each other! Unfortunately, easily! Maybe, we should all become Buddhists, because there has never been a war fought in the name of Buddhism. Ahh, but then we have to think about what sect. The one's that the Chinese were persecuting, while they had the Olympics or the ones that are in Japan and have their own political party. It goes on and on and on and on. Just yesterday a friend told me that now the Baha'i are going door to door proselytizing in his neighborhood. He brought them in and had a conversation with them about what they agreed about!
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