Wow I'd really be impressive if I could spell! Now religion, err religion is fine as long as you separate it from the religious experience. I mean some one like Jesus or Buddha has a moment of searing insight, he experiences God or Enlightenment, a transcendent moment when he sees the Truth of all of existence. This knowledge is impossible to demonstrate to others, it has to be experienced, but he tries, going all around the countryside preaching his story, eyes on fire, and the people are drawn to this speaker that they begin to follow him and commit every word to memory, the legend grows up around the holy man, it is written down and become sacred text. When the Holy man dies, everything is preserved and revered as dogma. So now we have a religion, but the Holy Man's indescribable transcendent experience, that has eluded everyone. Bleh, I'm not saying it right, but religion is but a poor sad husk of the religious experience. -- Eddie Pedantic Gasbag Discussion Group

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Date Posted: 03:21:12 07/18/01 Wed
Author: spoot
Subject: Wow I'd really be impressive if I could spell! Now religion, err religion is fine as long as you separate it from the religious experience. I mean some one like Jesus or Buddha has a moment of searing insight, he experiences God or Enlightenment, a transcendent moment when he sees the Truth of all of existence. This knowledge is impossible to demonstrate to others, it has to be experienced, but he tries, going all around the countryside preaching his story, eyes on fire, and the people are drawn to this speaker that they begin to follow him and commit every word to memory, the legend grows up around the holy man, it is written down and become sacred text. When the Holy man dies, everything is preserved and revered as dogma. So now we have a religion, but the Holy Man's indescribable transcendent experience, that has eluded everyone. Bleh, I'm not saying it right, but religion is but a poor sad husk of the religious experience.
In reply to: spoot 's message, "Now sex, notice I'm doing this in separate posts, I don't know shy but it's gonna look real impressive I think. Uh sex, yes, more of it, any combination you like, as long as it doesn't involve children, animals or any kind of violent or abusive acts. As for gender, I'm beginning to feel it is a red herring, I don't know what is truly gender specific behavior or attitude or viewpoint. Everything I can think of as either "male" or "female" attributes seem to be equally natural for either. Aggressiveness, intuition, nurturing, logic, bitchiness, passivity, strength, action, allure, submission, domination, all of them are either male or female, depending on the person expressing them. As Moira says, we are all souls encases in wrappings, we just have been trained to think ourselves as one or the other." on 02:53:17 07/18/01 Wed

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