What is your faith, path or belief?

diemdepyro

diemdepyro

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the beekeepers said:
That is an incredibly enlightened and educated post. I agree with you completely
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I see there is another student of enlightenment. I have to ask.
Is your life fulfilled. My personal beliefs have given me true peace and fulfillment. This is what no organized religion could
for me. Teacher teach yourself.
 
the beekeepers

the beekeepers

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diemdepyro said:
I see there is another student of enlightenment. I have to ask.
Is your life fulfilled. My personal beliefs have given me true peace and fulfillment. This is what no organized religion could
for me. Teacher teach yourself.
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As long as I meditate everyday and practice mindfulness I do very well. If not the persistent and greedy ego tends to bubble up. For me it is the only path to enlightenment.

Organized religion is not my path.

"If you die without loss, you are eternal" Tao Te Ching
 
the beekeepers

the beekeepers

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diemdepyro said:
"Organized religion is not my path." beekeeper
That is the statement of a"satisfied mind"
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Thanks diemdepyro! It works for me. It also makes perfect sense to me to respect that other people have their own path. This Way is accepting and without judgement. I don't know any other religions or philosophies that teach that.
 
CrackerJax

CrackerJax

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One need only look to Tibet to see that if only one side believes in a peaceful solution to life, it will end in tears under the jack boots who don't..... and so it continues.

Religion is just ducky....


out. :blsmoke:
 
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humblesmurph

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i dunno, i see all these cats separating god and spirituality from religion. Seems weird to me. God and spirituality go hand in hand with religion. This whole "I'm spiritual but don't follow a religion" movement just seems like a cop out. Cats want the eternal bliss, but they kinda just want to do their own thing.

People think that religion was created as a subset of of god in order to control people. It's the other way around. God came about through religion. There had never been the separation before. Once man got it in his head that there was some sort of supreme being, we've been trying to please him with rituals ever since. Point being, simply believing in a god without going through the rituals is still being religious---and lazy. Without religion, none of you "spiritual, but not religious people wouldn't even believe in god....because there would be no god without religion.

Ain't no god, ain' t no afterlife either. i just do what i can with the few years i got left.
 
diemdepyro

diemdepyro

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humblesmurph said:
Without religion, none of you "spiritual, but not religious people wouldn't even believe in god....because there would be no god without religion.

Ain't no god, ain' t no afterlife either. i just do what i can with the few years i got left.
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WTF is that? Translate please!
 
diemdepyro

diemdepyro

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LOL God is always before religion.
That is the problem people put religion before God and mold him to their beliefs.
 
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humblesmurph

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diemdepyro said:
LOL God is always before religion.
That is the problem people put religion before God and mold him to their beliefs.
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Sure, you are taught that God is above religion--which he is of course. However, god as the concept we think of today didn't come before religion chronologically.
 
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WhatAmIDoing

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"heaven" is just a term. christianity makes a lot of sense in a certain respect: when it didn't matter so much, you just needed to live your life to live it well, and stay under control of some certain warring faction (king, queen, knight, duke, earl, w/e): speculation.
 
misshestermoffitt

misshestermoffitt

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I just try to do the right thing. It's not a religion, it's a way of life for me. If I'm putting on a holiday dinner and I find out someone doesn't have anything to do for the holiday, then I set them a place at the table.

I just think people should try to help each other a little more. It's not that much effort.
 
a brasileira

a brasileira

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CrackerJax said:
Uhhhh, can you spot the trouble?


Yo Bra :mrgreen:

Well that's the crux of the biscuit now isn't it...... once we invent a G*D how do we keep it homogenized for everybody?
Answer: We don't. We just fill in our societal factor inputs and spin the wheel ... and then war with each other over the differences of what we have MADE UP!!!

Yes, we should think of ourselves as so very smart, right? :shock:


out. :blsmoke:
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i don't think we invented God...we just define the ultimite force of life in the universe and CALL it "god". sure we make it look like us (if one is into idols and statues like me), because it helps us to see the divinity in everything (as part of the divine "spark" if you will.), especially in ourselves, and it helps us to connect with life, and to realize that we control our destinies, blah blah blah.

i don't think any of us is smart per se...except for the ones who realize that they are not.
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