This is the religion of peace! 1161artie morty Abstinence is definitely not in the rules, but a varying scale of moderation can never hurt. As for the fishing, perhaps one of the 10 suggestions (f*** 10 commandments, gotta worry...
Mate, if you could set up a chapter of the Drunken Jedi on Kangaroo Island, just down from my favorite fishing spot at American River, and within walking distance of the bottle-shop in Kingscote, I'd become your first priest (as long as abstinence is not in the rules).
Can we have AC-DC's 'Have A Drink On Me' as the theme song?
Of course - you'd have to be a fool to hate the majority of any religion for the actions of a few. But you would also be a fool to ignore the threat.
I don't hold these people as religious - more so as fanatics hiding within a religion so as to be able to justify their fundamentalist views.
I don't believe in any man made or written religious text. Mankind is too cruel, vindictive, narrow minded and just plain mean to be given the responsibility of putting the teachings of God into text.
I recon all religious text is more a Freudian attemp by scholars of the time to explain the universe at a point in history when scientific knowledge was at an absolute minimum. Hence the glaring errors in the futile attempt for an explanation.
It would be interesting if a new Koran or Bible was written from scratch, but with todays scientific knowledge, rather than that which existed a few thousand years ago.
Wonder if they would read the same?
This is the religion of peace! 1163As long as the meaning comes through, it doesn't matter. Crap expressed in iambic pentameter is still crap. I tend to feel that simplicity is...
That is quite profound - and pretty well expresses my feelings as well. I must admit that I had the feeling of a higher being (perhaps wishful thinking) when my Dad died. Hard to accept the fact that all that he was just dissapeared. I'd like to think he is up there looking down on me sometimes.
Sounds more than fair.
I like Carl Sagan - he had an insatiable desire for scientific knowledge. His need for justification, and his desire to express it, was the thing that added boredom to his work. His book 'Cosmos' was my Harry Potter when I was a kid.
Problem with having a certain type of programmers mentality, I suppose (you say 3, I say 10). My wife always says I'm too much maths and too little emotion.
Actually, I have no idea what she's raving on about. Maybe giving her a new calculator for Valentines Day wasn't such a good idea. Should have stuck with the flowers (mental note for next year).
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