Bob Loblaw
Bluelight Crew
I don't identify with many Conservative Christian beliefs (e.g. anti-abortion, anti-gay rights), Christian Scientists and Scientologists seem way out in left field heh.
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it was his third post and he asked for someone to explain this to him in his fourth
he may have meant it<<<<<I missed that part!!
(i didn't forget your message in my inbox. i just can't concentrate on a long answer these days. maybe later)[/QUOTE
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>Hey I like your posts these days they carry your essence through them! I sense you, not just head stuff alone!
>Doesn't have to be a long one>>>>> Hiis a shorter message
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On the topic:
I take the scriptures metaphorically so in this sense, they meet with transcendance and inner spirituality!
^ A really neat property of Hinduism, to me at least, is that it has a place in its cosmology for all other faiths and systems of belief. (Jesus is seen as an avatar of Vishnu, for example). It is, in its most stripped down definition, a culturally Indian perspective on all spirituality in general. All worldviews are really compatible with Hinduism, because any can be filtered through a traditional Indian metaphysical perspective. The flipside of this is that Hinduism doesn't export well -- one cannot truly understand what it feels like to be Hindu without a good understanding and familiarity with the Indian cultural and social mindset.
Buddhism (Dharmic), and Islam (Abrahamic), by contrast, are really designed to be exportable across cultural boundaries. They are worded and transmitted in such a way that can be grasped, appreciated, and integrated even by people who have little in common with the religions' founders.
This is not a statement of endorsement of any kind, on my part. Just an interesting aside about the sociology of religion.