i want to be completely honest with you... The last post was loooong and i mentioned a group who I don't entirely know. I don't want to come across as targeting this particular group, i was just citing an example of the opposite of my thinking and this is what i found. Events in my life have called me to take a stance on this issue and it was by no means an all out attack on Xenos... merely they had something in writing that others were verbally saying in my immediate environment. On a reread, I think i came down hard on this particular church that is doing a great good for a large amount of people in the c-bus area, one that my sister gets a lot of joy out of... i hope this clarifies why i don't share their view.
Thich Nhat Hanh, a veitnamese buddhist, wrote the last post in a much shorter and better phrased way.
"Truth has no boundaries. Most of the boundaries we have created are artificial. Our differences may be mostly differences in emphasis.
You are born into your tradition, and naturally you become a Buddhist or Christian. Buddhism or Christianity is part of your culture and civilization.You are familiar with your culture and appreciate the good things in it. You may not be aware that in other cultures and civilizations there are values that people are attached to. If you are open enough, you will understand that your tadition does not contain all truths and values. It is easy to get caught in the idea that salvation is not possible outside your tradition. A deep and correct practice of your tradition may release you from that dangerous belief."
from Living Buddha, Living Christ pages 154-155.
My good buddy Ron emailed me that to show more of the relativity of mathmatics. He states, "I did however want to let you know that 1+1 is not always 2 in mathematics. Sometimes 1+1=0 in mathematics. How you ask? It's binary addition. It's what makes the switches and electronic stuff in your house work. Thought you might like that little bit of that inside information to blow your mind some more."
how cool is that?! yeah, not only do i have a reader, but he blew my mind! that is why the world is sooo cool to me. there's so many different ways of looking at something, why can't we rejoice in it? the world is not static and boring and is proof that a divine genius placed such an abundance before us. we should never be bored with our explorations. if i have other readers that don't share this view, feel free to comment! i'm open to all trains of thought.
i shall now end with Selections From The Bahai Writings on Peace that sound pretty close to my own Christian tradition:
“…Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world.”
"With the joyful tidings of light I hail thee: rejoice! To the court of holiness I summon thee; abide therein that thou mayest live in peace for evermore."
“The fundamental truth of the Manifestations is peace. This underlies all religion, all justice.”
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I've been reading the posting and its was very enteresting, now, i've alaways tried to keep things simple ( when possible ). Can there be only one way to God? Ghandi said: logic should lead us to God not the other way. Now, let's supose that i've been created by a God, that God also created what is the most splendid thing on my, my mind, now it would be silly and totaly unfair of God to create us, asking us to finding him but at the same time infiltrating into us something that wont lead us to him, it would be cheating, so i truly believe that logic should and must lead us to a/the true God, but, can it be more thn one logic? sure many logical expression can be true, but the thing is as im watching over those many logical expression... sure most of them lead us to same goels of good and evil, winners, losers... but still not the same, cause the major diference between those expression its where they start, is the fact that they dont share the same idea in got, so they start at diferent places but they hit the same target ( mostly )... some silly many say thats a miracle, but thats a mistake... see in binary logic there is two ways to get it right and true, either A is right and B is right or they are both wrong, so now way to start at diferent places and make it together, cause logic must lead us to God...
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