Religion vs Spirituality

[East Coast Hustle]

Back to the main rant... why not madgijkeque? Seriously. You can't prove it doesn't exist any more than anyone can prove it does.

true, but most rational people agree that since proving a negative is impossible, the burden of proof lies with those who want ot prove that something DOES exist as opposed to those who want to prove that it doesn't.

also, believing in mahdjikque = no better than believing in Yaweh or Allah or any of that retarded, backwards, stone-age bullshit.

Humanity really needs to get over its collective need to assign personal characteristics to forces out of our control, then maybe we can start evolving.

[B_M_W]

I'm reverse hijacking my thread here.  Bastards.

I won't get dragged into arguments about genocide and how bad it is.  As a citizen of a country that would not exist without genocide, I am rather ambivalent about the issue.  I'm not here to talk about genocide.

Now, Spirituality with regards to Religion....

I stated before that Spirituality is composed mostly of getting to know one's own self.  Be that through belly button inspection or conversations with one of your glands, it is entirely a matter of inward examination.  Somewhere during this process one experiences "spiritual growth" in the form of enlightenment or some sort of epiphany.  In essence, you make up your own shit.

Religion, on the other hand, is where someone thought really highly of themselves and decided to push their shit on everyone else.  While it can lead to enlightenment and various epiphanies of a sort, the only ones who will benefit from it are those who think precisely as the founder thought.  In the case of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic pardigm, that is some really fucking scary shit.

Point of fact, every one of the Big Three religions were founded by murdering, thieving, rapist, racist bastards.  Moses and his band of merry fuckwits...  40 years in a desert....  fucking bandits.  "God" even told them to murder, rape and pillage.  The Almighty even kicked their asses when they stole animals He told them to ruthlessly slaughter.  Jesus, perhaps to his credit, was more like modern cult leaders.  Preached about hating your family and yourself, give everything to him, do as he said.  What a shitstain.  Mohammed was a violent bandit, no doubt about it.  Sure, he had delusions of righteousness, but so what.  He was scum.

Now is it really any wonder why the people who follow these teaching the closest are supremely fucked up individuals?  I do not think it is merely coincidence.  When one molds their innermost ego to the lingering taint of long dead madmen it only follows that they themselves will go mad.  It is a certainty, to be sure.

I'll go off and rant about "mahdgjihque" in another rant.

HOLY FUCKING RAH! This and the first one = w1n! DAMN I hate religion! And you just said it for me.

Rand. Prob., please continue to put out high quality rants about this disease of the world.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Anyone who believes in anything, even in the "self", is a fuck wit that deserves ridicule and anal fistulae.

nice, that should be in fnordi's "wise shit" thread

This is correct.

Also, I didn't bother mentioning commercial products such as Economics, Politics, Art, Music, or even Science specifically because they are just that, products.  Their form is secondary to the perceptions of their consumers, therefore they are secondary to any other discussion and largely irrelevant.

Many "educated" people are way too hung up on art.

Another note:

ridicule and anal fistulae.

I'm thinking this is a turn on for most clergy.....

I think that economics is the new religion of the world nowadays.

art, sciences, music, religions, alternative or mainstream spirituality, and all the rest are just the products.

"Got God?" Heh.

You're right about art. Too bad most art critics and fans never get the jokes that artists publish.

[East Coast Hustle]

good point.

after all, in much of the country (and indeed, the world) GAWD is Big Business.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

good point.

after all, in much of the country (and indeed, the world) GAWD is Big Business.

The economy even pwns Gawd. See?