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#078 Minimum Wage of Death
The wages of sin are not death. Humanity wins out over sin every time. The possibility of redemption is a purely human capacity. This becomes easily more graspable if you elevate Jesus to "human" status. Compassion is a mammalian trait that took millions of years to evolve - you can put your faith in that. -
#077 Oh Happy Doubt
Oh happy doubt, you keep me pure ( Read more... ) -
#076 - Under Scrutiny
if you put the magnifying glass upon any belief system be it religious, political, scientific or psychological for instance; you will find flaws in that belief. This is fine, except when a belief becomes to inflexible, then it runs the risk of doing more harm than good ( Read more... ) -
Straight up Cripp
They say i'm disabled but thats bull shit, I'm a cripple you dig ( Read more... ) -
I took the Buddhist precepts and here are my personalizations of them.
Now, receiving the Great Precepts, I vow to requite my deep obligation to the Buddhas and Ancestral Teachers. I pledge to establish these Precepts as essential teachings for human beings and other beings so that all will inherit the wisdom of the Buddha ( Read more... ) -
#075 - An Invitation
Dear Catholic church,
I would like to offer you a sincere invitation for forgiveness for the various evils committed by your organization over the last two thousand years (too innumerable to list here) with the hope of gaining your cooperation in the future when you join the rest of humanity.
Thank you in advance.
- sluk -
Real Music School: What I learned from...
Zappa: anger, moral outrage, reveling in difference, sadistic humor ( Read more... ) -
#074 waking up
Buddhists talk about "waking up"; This metaphor is a bit confusing. Many believe it means to become aware of another reality. It does not mean this. To look for another reality is to ignore the reality is right before you and that is Delusion.
Science has played the greatest role in helping humanity wake up to reality by dispelling every delusion ( Read more... ) -
#073 Positive and negative thinking are two sides of the same coin.
Positive and negative thinking are two sides of the same coin; both are anxiety driven. if you believe negative thoughts cause bad things to happen you then you have a distrustful and infantile view of suffering. Its hard to accept that the universe is chaotic and that often times bad things might occur completely at random. These "bad" things are ( Read more... )