Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

sat nam.

J.C. said...

Gullible humans have been duped by spiritual predators for thousands of years.
Unlike religion Buddha did not preach religion. He preached, 'Do not harm anything'
That includes dogs.
Do not even mindlessly pick leaves off the trees.
Spirituality and religion (Jesus Crap) are polar opposites.
Religion as a construct is a well designed bullshit to sublimate all the unfair caste and class system constructs from India to the U.S.
Religion is for saps.

Anonymous said...

breathe skip, breathe.

and don't practice it. it's not mandatory.

you're letting them make you crazy.

it's bad for your nervous system.

Anonymous said...

Skip:

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and
compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness.

-Dalai Lama

J.C. said...

I wish that were true sankofa.

Thanks Jasai, beauty.

the good nurse said...

Wow Skip,
It is unfortunate that U must call names. Those of us who trust and acknowledge the only true living God do not condone cruelty to any of God's creatures. I continue to pray for the lost..including u.
the good nurse

Anonymous said...

"Religious life IS life."

Thich Nhat Hhan.

Big J

Anonymous said...

"Religious life IS life."

Thich Nhat Hhan.

Big J

Anonymous said...

i don't know if "religious life" in the way most americans know and practice it - which is half assed and convenience based at best - IS life.

I just don't know.

Denmark Vesey said...

jasai said...

i don't know if "religious life" in the way most americans know and practice it - which is half assed and convenience based at best - IS life.

I just don't know.

Sista Jasai,

Measuring anything by the way "most" do it, is an exercise in futility.

"Most" Americans eat a diet that makes them obese, sick and sad. It is half assed and convenience based.

That doesn't make food bad.

Let us not allow religious malpractice to represent "religion" any more than quackery represents science.

Anonymous said...

hear here.

Intellectual Insurgent said...

Well said DV.

J.C. said...

All religion is malpractice, which is a legal term, a civil society term, which is why religion was invented in the first place. Civil society.
That time and place is over.
Religion was trussed up with Politics at the beginning to control the sheeple.
Religion is another word for bigotry.
It has to be that way. They are brothers/sisters together walking, and laughing down the road.
It is always an inside joke though.
As it was in the beginning.
Word of the day.
Even the people that invented religion did not believe it.
IT WAS AN INSIDE JOKE ha ha.