Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (29985)	9/28/2001 2:04:35 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The problem with some Religions is in how loudly they proclaim the existence of God , as if each was the more successful at establishing a beach~head procaiming a sole proprietorship upon an "infiniteness"... (with so often the tendency for mass displays of raucus sentimental fanaticism . ) Of that sense of a "divine other" which can only be heard in meditation ...and seen in silence . In prayer one talks to God, but in meditation one hears God. It is the supreme paradox of man , that in every one of his codified and created religions , while debating arguing , or railing about "their God"... ....each and every one of them most all universally agree , only thru the purity of ---> silence , does one ever come close to knowing the rapture and powerful sense of any creator. So why is there all this rancor ?

To: gao seng who wrote (29985)	9/28/2001 2:05:48 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Religion seems to me , man's way of proclaiming silently within himself , an awareness of being the universe ....beyond mere speculation and with a sense of wonder, prescence and quiete awe. In one sense , the first prophets of "God" , were the men who rubbed the first two sticks together with reverence and made fire from that friction... and they knew it was "good" . ( fire that was a destroyer , yet benficial in warmth, heat light and protection...If there is a "God" , he was just as much in existence then, as he is to be appreciated now ) from the ancient Hindu Svetasvatara Upanishad : As oil in sesame seeds, as butter in cream, as water in river beds, as fire in friction sticks, so is the soul grasped in one's own self when one searches for Him with truthfulness and austerity. The little Buddha (inside you) says: The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. -- Gautama Buddha (you) ;-)