Lots of anger in other forums

....there is nothing original here...I got the ideas direct from the Bible and my beloved Zen ( no I don't see a conflict )>>>>>>>> JN

That's funny! When I was 16 I read Budhism and thought the Bible a condeming chain. When I was almost 30 I re-read the Bible and realized what it was and what it meant. So I too have a kind of Zen Redneck approach to God.


munk
 
Nice work, munk, clearblue and everybuddy.

One way or another, we're all in this together.
 
Something called Occam's razor. When considering a lot of possible answers to a problem, the simplest, least convoluted answer is usually the correct one :D
 
munk said:
....there is nothing original here...I got the ideas direct from the Bible and my beloved Zen ( no I don't see a conflict )>>>>>>>> JN

That's funny! When I was 16 I read Budhism and thought the Bible a condeming chain. When I was almost 30 I re-read the Bible and realized what it was and what it meant. So I too have a kind of Zen Redneck approach to God.


munk
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I think that is a pretty common finding, especially if you are willing to open your heart and think about what you read.
 
I had no real religious background, 45/70. The Book is used to hammer a lot of pain into people's lives. That's what men do too often. The Book itself, though, has writing in it beyond Shakespeare, beyond men imho, and words that strike the heart the same as our maker's name is written there. I was stunned at age 30 when I re-read it.



munk
 
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Every thread has it's own reality. Apparently I've been killed in one dimension, but am still alive and heavily armed in another. munk/QUOTE]

Facinating thought. One philosophical shift I made after the 5 heart bypasses and cancer, virtually back to back, was from being self centered....believe me, the old ego was pretty tattered at that point...to being other centered.

Many years ago, while serving search warrants on dope houses in Detroit or parachuting into labs in S.E.Asia or S. America, I had a 'It's Me or them' attitude. Having made the mental switch, I'm probably a lot easier to live with.
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It's strange how the Gods have put so many paths in so many roundabout ways to reach this same point in infinity and eternity, hunh Mac? ;)
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