22 Jun 20:22
--Yeah he's like the westerners guide to Taoism for dummies...pretty much.
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22 Jun 20:21
--Alan watts is a nice introduction to philosophy, not really deep and i think he gets more full of it the more you look into him.
22 Jun 20:19
--Oh I'm not advocating for systemic change. Before I might have but I think it's probably pointless. I just try and live my own life in a state of more awareness of it every moment, and do no harm, and maybe do some good if I can. The blubbering noise of civilisation can do what it will.
22 Jun 20:17
--Farms need farming, janits need janitoring. It's a society in need of robots that's why people are so replaceable.. It's a shitty system to begin with. But it is *the* system.
22 Jun 20:12
--Not a very efficient way of creating aware individuals...a good way of creating little meat robots though
22 Jun 20:12
--In a way I suppose so. I guess what I meant was a lot of the societal programming that happens to us as part of our "education", isn't really that useful or beneficial...but it gets done to us anyway and if you become aware of it, you spend a lot of time trying to deprogram that shit out of you.
22 Jun 20:09
--Didn't take it as one. Mom's a buddhist. Schools here force kids into Catholicism. Dad's side are hardcore, shove-down-your-throat protestants!
22 Jun 20:04
--@John, I'm actually not interested in assigning religious merit whatever that even is. Just curious though, I take it you were raised religious.? Not a loaded question just curious
22 Jun 19:56
--Yeah, well all people who haven't suffered from mental anguish as a result of Art put their hands up
22 Jun 18:13
--Who or what really gives religious merit? Is it the thoughts of the book club president or the number of members buying into it? Not saying every person's interpretation should be weighed in as equally as the other. I'm saying it's hard to discount any interpretation as worthless.
22 Jun 17:29
--Yeah sure thing. Though I think it's too easy a copout to say well everyone has a view so every view has just as much merit. I think there are ways to be a little more educated about why some views are actually idiotic for lots of very sensible and practical reasons, depending on what we are talking about. It's not about having the final say on the absoluteness of truth with a capital T, but being flexible enough to keep learning. Most religions are not flexible at all in their makeup how they are interpreted, and as such I find they make relatively poor models to live one's life by.
22 Jun 17:16
--By the way, in that Harry Potter statement. I'm not saying 'you' to specifically mean you! I'm generally talking about anyone who fits the bill!
22 Jun 17:13
--You know what is retarded? Have you ever filled up a form where there's a field for you to fill up under 'religion'? Why do people need to know your religion? What's stopping me from switching it back and forth from Catholic to Buddhist? Does it even matter?
22 Jun 17:10
--I mean. What makes your point of view of Harry Potter any more valid to someone else who just read the book?
22 Jun 17:08
--But that is human nature in general. We always tend to have a preference for something over something. I don't think there's such a thing as misinterpretations as much as they are just merely interpretations based on different set of eyes.
22 Jun 13:01
--Most of them John. definitely meaning the followers and perpetrators of most organised religions worldwide. A book is just a book, whatever the mythology surrounding it. It's people misinterpreting words that are claimed to be more right than words those people over there choose to believe, or thinking they adhere to some form of higher code than others or are in a special club because they believe in a certain book that is retarded. I have nothing against spirituality and what many religions try and say. And I am no atheist either...sometimes they are just as indoctrinated
22 Jun 04:59
--"That's why religions are so horrible" Not quite sure what you mean by this. Which one are you pertaining to? Is the book or the fan base?
22 Jun 04:55
--"That's why I was a bit confused that you would go to a dictionary to get moral codes": I was being sarcastic! I'm a dolt not pointing that out haha!