/lit/ - Literature

>>17611364
>it's a completely shit religion
Well you are going to have to do a better job to convince me other than "it is because I said so".
Why is your opinion not a 'shit opinion' deserving of contempt?

>>17610687
http://www.oocities.org/wu_weifarer/Yijing.html

>>17610585
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COS1yI8ZQZk

>>17608274
What do you mean by Agnosticism? There are several different meanings.

>>17610398
The classic religious texts deserve to be reread.
They are so profound and meaningful, even works written millennia ago can still have spiritual relevance.
Rereading allows for deeper insights and understanding, impossible to achieve in just one reading.
They are like deep wells of wisdom and spiritual truth, there is no reason to only take one sip when you can freely drink to your hearts content.

>>17609921
How do you know that is true?
Would be nice if life can be understood through simple statements, but a 'platitude' seems to carry an additional negative connotation.

>plat·i·tude | \ ˈpla-tə-ˌtüd
>a banal, trite, or stale remark
> a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché
>a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound

>>17607598
>Welcome to my fungus web page!
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/

>>17609577
The real question is what are you going to do about it?

>>17609682
If you actually read philosophy you would know you are making philosophical truth claims.

>>17605374
hmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jOPAGJq-M

>>17598573
>The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.

>>17601543
Define enlightenment first.
Its meaningless to try to achieve it if you dont even know what it is.

>>17602014
You contradict yourself by claiming to know that nobody knows anything.

>>17601943
Why do you speak like an uneducated vulgarian?
Even if you had a coherent argument, you put yourself to shame by talking like an uncultured simpleton.

>>17601598
Absolute simpleton objection considering God is classically defined as the First Cause, the Uncaused Cause,
ie. Aristotle's Unmoved Mover

>>17600638
Actually this is true, its amazing how easy it is the btfo pseuds with just a cursory glance of a wikipedia page.

>>17600537
People actually think he meant that literally, lol.

>>17598801
The English translations of Bahai writings by Shoghi Effendi are in the style of the KJV.

There is also a translation of the Quran that uses the same KJV style, and it also translates 'Allah' into 'God'.

>>17597389
I suppose this is Guenonian thought, or Perrenialism?
Did he actually think every religion was absolutely true in all regards, with no errors?

>>17597389
Religions can contain spiritual truth, wisdom, and value without having to be the manifestations of absolute Truth.
Religions can be a mixture of truths and errors, religions are true to the extent that they align with spiritual reality (God).

>>17597270
92:7.3.The many religions of Urantia are all good to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionists to conceive of their creed as The Truth; such attitudes bespeak more of theological arrogance than of certainty of faith. There is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth. Religionists would do better to borrow the best in their neighbors' living spiritual faith rather than to denounce the worst in their lingering superstitions and outworn rituals.

92:7.4.All these religions have arisen as a result of man's variable intellectual response to his identical spiritual leading. They can never hope to attain a uniformity of creeds, dogmas, and rituals—these are intellectual; but they can, and some day will, realize a unity in true worship of the Father of all, for this is spiritual, and it is forever true, in the spirit all men are equal.

>>17597135
In what sense of Gnosis do you mean?

And in your example, just because someone wants to reconcile two incompatible teachings, it doesnt mean they are right to do so; a rational person would have to have valid reasons to justify their syncretism. Religions and traditions can contain truth as well as errors.

>>17597135
Even sects within the same Tradition can have conflicting doctrines and incompatible viewpoints, but even then the best from each sect can be syncretically absorbed.

Karma can be seen in the idea of 'you reap what you sow'.

>>17597062
You jest, but the male organ here is referred to as a Jade Dragon, with the Dragon Head, Dragon Body, and Dragon Tail being the Three Palaces of the Jade Stem.