Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Chui  I don't have time to deliver a proper response to that post (I intend to, later), but I wanted to pop out this question:
Let's say there exist only three religions, for the sake of argument: Shintoism, Babylonian, and Scientology. Are you saying that it's better to randomly choose one of these and concentrate on it, rather than learning about all three? If so, how do you choose? |
Well that's hypothetical that's not practical to answer IMHOP, anymore than 'lets say there's one religion were you sacrofice virgins, another where you sacrifice children'.....
My general advice is this; study the one that is closest to your culture...if you have none , then choose the one that predominate in your societiy's culture - in america that would be some form of protestantism... in India, some form of hinduism (though say in Punjab it might be Sikhism or islam) if something really pulls you into another religion, explore it..
when you have the cultural context, it is easier to stay undeceived by the 'exoticism' (which i think is a problem in cross cultural romance but that 's another issue)
If you're uncomfortable with that i would say just take some 'spiritual time' each week to explore the idea that there might be something beyond or bigger or stranger than reason, than science, than hate than love than time....if that makes any sense...and ultimately to think about the whys - which science really can't answer science can tell us the hows - science I don't think is the vehicle for contemplating the
meaning of life.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Angela If I understand you correctly, you're saying you can enjoy a creative work and that can be a spiritual act, or you can enjoy a creative work and that can be a non-spiritual act. You recommend I (all of us) explore the spiritual version. Right? |
well let's back up a bit - I am just trying use art as an example - and part analogy - we'd be missing out on a whole lot if we looked at a Turner seascape and just thought "oh there's some ultramarine blue - that's made with lapiz and linseed oil" - that certainly can be fun (its called ultramarine not because of the color but because it came from overseas) but you'd be missing out on a whole lot, wouldn't you? and trying to explain the beauty of the canvass in terms of chemical make up would be sort of convulted, woudln't ? or even saying we are stimulated by bright colors because of evolution.... I feel, in this analogy science is the fact part - taking in the beauty, ect is the 'religion' part