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It's all true if you believe it in your heart! There are many roads in life and many roads that can lead to the same destination...
Everyone has a soul, and every-one's soul has been programmed with either some religion are no religion, whatever religion you choose or not choose to believe is embedded in our souls as the one and only way.
Christians believe in heaven and hell and of meeting Jesus someday, this is true, if you believe it to be true.
Orthodox Jews believe they will keep coming back in reincarnated lives until they have lived the perfect life that the L-rd intended. This is also true if it is ingrained in your mind.
Mormons, Jehovah witnesses, Seven day Adventists, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, even agnostic and atheists are all correct. From Hava Nagila to silent night, even white Christmas which by the way was written by Irving Berlin a Jew, are also truths if you so believe.
The powers of prayer and positive energies are greater when you are in a group of people who think similar, you may have euphoric feelings and energies so intense that they can heal and even hurt people if so desired.
So many wars have been fought over religion, and so many have died in vain, when in theory we are all one.
Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!
Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.
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via facebook;"One of my favorite quotes was from the noted agnostic Bertrand Russell. While he was widely reviled by those of faith, he could sometimes surprise.
In referring to the mythology of religious superstitions, he said, "Some say that 'all men ...grovel in darkness,' but I prefer to say, 'All men glimpse the truth.' "
The meaning was that, while all religions contain factual errors, in most cases (other than intentional fraud), they began as the sincere best efforts of primitive peoples to explain a universe that was beyond their comprehension."
Doug, beautifully stated!
via facebook;""I agree w/ "all men glimpse the truth."
via facebook;"I agree w/ "all men glimpse the truth." Its been said that we only know 10% of the universe, and have heard we also only know 10% of the bug world as well. Makes me wonder where we come up with these numbers. Someone I guess has determined ...somehow there is a missing 90%? Or in otherwords they seem to think they know where the end of the universe is?
In the same light some are arrogant enough to tag someone elses truth as "mythology" or "superstition", as if they know enough to be the final word. Of course such statements will be followed with "I will only believe what can be seen or proven".
Problems proving things arise when you believe in an eternal, unseen world, and always will.
With our knowledge around 10% at best, I would have to think we are no different than primative man, when trying to explain the universe. In fact I recently heard someone say that 40 years ago we thought we know about 50%....yet with increase in technology, better science, much larger universe than once thought, etc....we are now down to 10%.....ummm....makes me wonder if in another 20 years we will only have two choices....to plead total ignorance, or be forced to admit there has to be a very creative God."
via facebook;"my what big spaces I put between my lines..!! How did I do that? lol"
your big spaces are a metaphor for sometimes there just isn't any justification from paragraph indents to what one believe is the truth.
via facebok;""or big spaces are my personal black hole, between glimpses of truth?"
big spaces happen as well as no spaces when we least expect it, in life and in laying out blogs on da computer... :D)
via facebook;"Davis D. Danizier Steven — I would be extremely surprised if it turns out that, at this stage of our knowledge, we know as much as 10% of the universe.
I would be more incline to think that, in all its vastness, the amount that we puny human mortals know is... an infinitesimal fraction of 1%.
But the fact that we do not understand or have knowledge of the rest of it does not mean that the only explanation is god. Mind you, I am not ruling out that possibility; on the contrary, my own personal OPINION is that some form of higher power (if not omnipotent, at least higher than humans) has some role to play in the universe.
But the fact that a vast universe extends beyond the puny limits of mortal capacity is not, itself, an argument for god, only for the human desire to have a higher being we can turn to. It is this drive, I believe, that impelled our earlier, more primitive ancestors to devise myths centered around a SUPERnatural, because the natural was, itself, as it still remains, too immense for us to grasp.
As for the existence of a god, I believe that it is objectively not knowable in our present human condition. However, as I said, as a matter of conjecture about the best explanation for that which is not knowable, I have compiled some of the arguments for and against a belief in god, and explained why I feel that, even absent certainty, a belief in a god seems to have a place in explaining the unknowable:"
http://danizier.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/is-there-a-god/
via facebook;" I agree...the statement that no one can prove there is a god or God, should in itself keep the same people from making statements that there is not a god.......but it seems many quickly do anyway.
And I must ask...is there such a thing as creatures that are 1/2 man and 1/2 goat? (-:"
via facebook;"I do not agree with those who say with certainty that there is no god. In purely objective terms, it is unknowable.
And are there really such things as gods? As satyrs?
Those who are too literal miss the truths that are hidden it the myste...ry of metaphor.
One errs in believing too literally in the literal reality of gods or satyrs; one also errs in not believing sufficiently in the metaphoric symbolism of gods, satyrs ... or Santa Claus."
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