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[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I don't know what you're trying to say. F God and F the Big Bang.

We exist, at this brief moment, on this small planet, at this size, small enough to be humble, big enough to be complex - and our consciousness (spirit?) is both too limited to know and understand everything much less what we can even perceive - including our own over-complex consciousnesses and their interactions. I can live with not knowing. Many people cannot. And many people make up and pass down stories to cover that up and provide comfort as well as weaponize it for social discipline-stability and/or power and control.

My mind is eternally trapped within my body paradoxically. I don't need a soul or spirit to bridge between them. The two are real and more than enough to manage without complicating it with extra shit when we also have the diverse external world and all of its internal motivations to deal with.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

We exist, at this brief moment, on this small planet, at this size, small enough to be humble, big enough to be complex - and our consciousness (spirit?)

Literally what Yeshua preached.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe I'm the next JC?

But still. Fuck the "spirit" and the "soul" and over-complicating things with all this woo. My neighbour is always talking about "soul" (not religiously but spiritually), the one who fell, and it's beyond tedious and no longer comical. It's the noise of a feedback loop that interrupts everything.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well Talmudic rabbis think you have a lower soul than a cow. Soul is spirit, it is the potential goodness in everyone had they followed Christ or in my opinion the Father's teachingsof love.

Most people don't read the new testament but if they did and thought about it all on a spiritual revolutionary perspective they might think differently about Christianity and what Jesus really wanted, which is lacking entirely in all religions. If you were to mix the action of Christ with the self-renouncement (minus the gold shrines of Buddhism and hinduism) of ego in Buddhism, then your following "The Way." Which means to be a disciple to truth in the present moment, always and to never, ever worry.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't care what rabbis think, nor about souls or spirits.

A mind may be temperamental and psychology a new science, but that's the better way to approach people who may or may not exude "goodness".

Love is too extreme and drives Christian people into hypocrisy because they just can't.

Zen Buddhism, which is basically existentialism with some Tao (a basic fundamental philosophy) and dogma on top, doesn't demand that you love everyone, even the unlovable. It simply asks for compassion (understanding, sympathy, fairness, justice). To me that's FAAAAR more realistic.

" Which means to be a disciple to truth in the present moment, always and to never, ever worry. "

I do my best, but often wonder if it's enough, and I'm perpetually haunted by regrets.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If nothing else, Yeshua's words are the truth and no other religion has spoken them in full.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't go so far as to even say it's in full, otherwise there'd be no confusion. Both Jesus and Buddha, among others, taught great things - and people haven't learned not to corrupt them.