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Do you look up to any human religious leader?
I still have tremendous admiration for my former priest, although I have obviously taken a different path. There are many religious leaders whose writings admire -- mostly Buddhists and Quakers -- but most of them are dead, and I don't consider any of them as authorities.Do you look up to any human religious leader?
Do you look up to any human religious leader?
I wouldn't say "follow" people like Campbell or the Nearings or Krishnamurti or even Russell. I do follow their advice (and Sakyamuni's) not to follow anybody, including themselves.doppelgänger;959334 said:I might also consider Joseph Campbell, but to honor what Joseph Campbell taught is to make your own hero's journey of your life . . . but then you'd be following Campbell . . .
I've never seen it done. Jesus' teachings are notoriously inconvenient to follow.I am hoping that any Christian will follow Yeshua's (Jesus') teachings.
I've never seen it done. Jesus' teachings are notoriously inconvenient to follow.
I wouldn't say "follow" people like Campbell or the Nearings or Krishnamurti or even Russell. I do follow their advice (and Sakyamuni's) not to follow anybody, including themselves.
He's not forgotten at all in mine.Krishnamurti is one of those forgotten gems, in my mind.
Helen and Scott Nearing are best known for their book Living the Good Life, and in their old age they became sort of elders and gurus of the back-to-the-land, self-sufficient movement. The initial reason they went back to the land, though, was that Scott was a teacher who became unemployable because of he was a Socialist, peace activist, feminist, and all-around troublemaker. During the Depression, they decided it would be easier to live poor in the country than in the city. Helen was his second wife, twenty years his junior, a free-thinker and a vegetarian. She was a close friend of Krishnamurti in the 1920s and was his lifelong admirer; Krishnamurti is said to have been in love with her. Scott died in 1983 at the age of 100, by his own choice, and Helen in 1995 at the age of 91 when she ran her pickup truck off the road in the rain.*Never heard of the "Nearings"
In terms of living people, I look up to the Dalai Lama and Bishop Tutu.Do you look up to any human religious leader?
She was a close friend of Krishnamurti in the 1920s and was his lifelong admirer; Krishnamurti is said to have been in love with her.
We say that our lives are short, but apparently, they lived through too much. What was the reason Scott killed himself?Scott died in 1983 at the age of 100, by his own choice, and Helen in 1995 at the age of 91 when she ran her pickup truck off the road in the rain.