Rainbow Mage

Hmmm negative? You know I'm not really sure...to be honest.

Sadistic? I'm not sure thats the right word.

Good.


Oh, wrote my intro to blog earlier. Nothing special though. Nothing on my take on anything yet though. Am planning on writing something in the next couple of days.

You left kind of quickly from chat earlier. You okay?

>>>I meant that I have done what the Buddha called "making peace with death". I've understood that death is inevitable, and do not fear it, and to the Buddha that meant one could move beyond birth and death.<<<

Right,
But, Until one could learn how to die compleatly before an incompleate death, there is fear of death moreover one can never go beyond deaths and births.

In other language we can also say: We are in this body, because the Fear, of loosing it, otherwise we would have been somewhere else insted of this body.

Respect for Buddha and brother Egyptian ji.
_/\_ Chinu.

Awesome posts.

Oh awesome.

I know EP. I am just asking if there is anything, a law, a theory anything that makes it completely impossible.

It means that I don't know what my path is and I'm a little lost spiritually- half the time I don't really know what I believe. But I'm searching for my path, I'm searching for truth.
The reason that I say 'Dharma' instead of 'religion' or something is because despite being confused about my beliefs and reality, I still consider the Bhagavad Gita to be the greatest source of wisdom and truth and I still consider Krishna to be my Ishta Dev. Even if Krishna isn't real in the earthy, manifest form that he is represented as, to me he still represents Love, which is the essence of my understanding of life and my experience of reality.

Good job man, thumbs up!

Yeah, I think there's a lot to that. Replacement theology, and shades of the Christ-killers libel, and the old Wandering Jew legends, and "witnesses to salvation" theology, and accusations that we're in league with Satan, and blood libels, and who knows what else. Even if people didn't take it all literally when they were Christians, even if they profess to leave it all behind when they stop believing, it stays with them. And it creates a fertile planting ground for anti-Semitism cloaked as anti-Zionism, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and anti-Semitic propaganda, too.

Awww, thank you EP, the feeling is mutual!

I find it to be so cool that despite going into religions thousands of miles apart, we agree on virtually everything. Delve past the surface, and it's just facets and terminology that are different, it seems.

You're welcome, hope you find this buddhu (fool) to have something useful to say once in a while.

I've never truly understood anti-Semitism: why people single out Jews for hatred is incomprehensible to me. But for whatever motivations, people have thought of Jews as something entirely Other. I think maybe it has to do with our complexity: we're not just a religion, and not just a culture/ethnicity, we're both/all at once, inextricably and simultaneously. And even as a religion, we don't really have much in common with the religions that Europeans and Americans are more intimately familiar with. So people don't really know who we are, or what we really do or think, and they presume that we are whatever crap they've heard people whisper that "Jews are...." But it still always astonishes me that so many people, even once they've been corrected, and offered some truth about us, refuse to pay attention, and would rather cling to hating us. And whatever it is, we can't win: we're always judged not enough one thing, or too much another....

Commented.

Well that's good to know!

LOL... well, okay, I can agree that the Egyptian religion has authority. I guess I like Akhenaten's religion because he was a monotheist, although whether he was a crazy iconoclast fanatic, or religiously another Manifestation of God, would be truly subjective. Come on; you believe in the gods, and I believe in only One.

Well, it is true that Baha'u'llah favoured Kingship, that's for sure. In any case, I do believe that Akhenaten was probably a Manifestation of God that probably didn't get the good end of the Egyptian peoples. I have much partiality towards Atenism.

I still do not consider Hinduism a pagan religion, lol.

you changed your name again!!! i know, a little late to the party, but i just figured it out...haven't been on as much lately...

Well, I would like to believe sometimes that there were different religions: Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Shaktism, way before the very idea of 'Hinduism' came to view. Historically, these three religions all believed in the Veda as the Revelation of God intimated to the sages, and have argued and fought and killed each other in the entirety of history. As another person said, these Dharmas still have an authority that alot of pagan religions don't.