just ignore and let this one die

Um... Gabrielle?!

/me glares sternly around the thread

That was the first thing that attracted me about Hinduism - everyone is right, because everyone views God differently. When Gandhi was asked if he was a Hindu, he replied "yes, and a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew". That's the epitome of tolerance and acceptance to me; disconcern about who's religion is "right", and concern that people treat each other with respect.

ROFL!!!!
Like the "Eat here, get gas" signs.

Another thing: if you take Intelligent Design to its logical conclusion, you end up a Hindu.

That's all well and good and the Golden Rule is a great one- it's the Supreme Deity or Deities that I find a bit hard to accept. Hubris perhaps, but one cannot force oneself to believe in something and it just doesn't seem logical to me.

Preface to say, if you read me enough you will know this is not meant as anything but what it appears on the surface, an honest request for information:

Please expound, I would like to see your views on this and why you arrive at that conclusion.



Further, it would take accepting Intelligent Design as fact, which just takes us back to faith which rather negates the need for provable facts.

I saw him once... I mean was standing next to him... at the Metropolitan Museum. The friend I was with flipped out and kept whispering, "That's Harlan Ellison! That's Harlan Ellison" and I was like, "Who, the little guy? Who is he?"

Just found this thought it was cool:

http://www.literature-map.com/harlan+ellsion.html

I'm interested in everyones thoughts on...

Eating a bowl of chocolate pudding, naked, by a campfire singing coombiya.

Really...just wanted to add to this HUNORMOUS post. Holy poor keyboards batman.

"...it's turtles all the way down..."

Okay. First off, I don't believe in ID. I regard the following as a half-joke, and I don't remember all my reasons or examples, but in a nutshell.

Intelligent Design says that the way the world is made, the way it fits together, is a very intricate design. The presence of a design indicates a designer.

However, the world doesn't fit together so neatly. There are oddities, such as the fact that poison ivy only affects humans.

Also, the presence of diseases, some of which are quite horrible, indicates something quite disturbing about this designer's mental health, or at least his or her intentions regarding humanity.

The apparent inconsistencies and horrible things are easily explained by assuming that there are many or at least several designers, each of whom has their own agenda, and some of whom are (to say the least) whimsical.

If you look for a living religion that could accomodate such a view, the only one that I know of is Hinduism.

QED

LMNOP

Rather fond of the Orouborus myself

Ah thank you muchly - sort of Design by Committee

Well...I love chocolate pudding, campfires and Kumbaya, so...it's all good. I'm hoping there's a blanket by that campfire, though.

Hey there, Harmony! Glad you stopped by! For your first post here:

thank you hehe. On a serious note though, I think a great book to read that sort of touches on the subject lightly is "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. Very excellent read.

Well,I like everything but that stupid ass song. I always thought it was mandatory to be naked while eating chocolate pudding.....

/me waves at Rio and her boots! Did you guys get the freebie purple ones i gave the slurl to in Cartel chat last night?

OMG!! The last time that book was mentioned here, it got quite.........interesting.

(danger...geek mode on!)
In part Amara, I think it depends too on whether you take a positivist or interpretive view on the various myths. Do you look at a myth literally? See that it cannot have possibly been that way, and reject it as silly and false? Or do you view the myth as allegorical? And there-in see something hidden both true and profound?

For a biblical example...are Jacob's sons viewed as actual people? Or as an allegory for the relationships between the early tribes of Isreal? Is Levi the patron of the Levites? Or is he the embodiment of their early history?

It isn't an easy question to answer. And the answer is certainly different for each.
(danger passed...geek mode off...)

No, I was at Aeble's party at the time. So I forgot by the time I left. I'm old. Can you please post SLURL or send me a LM in world later?

If there's pudding, naked, and campfire...

Kumbaya is NOT what will be crossing these lips.

I will need to try and remember to do so -- tomorrow -- since sadly RL is tossing my SL a loop tonight.

Oo I'll just look in my chat archives. I smaht like that. Thanks.

Prefer the Golden un-rule: Do not do unto others what you would not want done to you.

Gets rid of the whole idea of doing unto others from the get-go. Even then, still has one weakness (but still a good starting point, like "First, do no harm.": It is surprising what some people think other people would enjoy having done to them, especially if it includes saving their soul.

Well- keeping in mind my own screwed up religious up bringing- reminder a hundred pages back we talked about JW's - I was taught to take the Bible literally as well as allegorically- meaning there was room for both and the meanings changed or could be interpreted both ways simultaneously. So while Job is a parable, Sodom & Gomorrah are literal- I happen to have a huge problem with both of those since Job's wife got really screwed in the bargain and Lot was ready to turn his girls over to rape and mayhem for the sake of strangers he did not know were angels.

And just for the sake of whatever- I love Song of Solomon as poetry and do not care a fig for the symbolism there.