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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (24491)	8/20/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Having now read all the posts for the third time, I'm a little confused on who said what, but am left with sheer delight in the ideas and questions. When you ask if all the hoopla of organized religion is necessary, I'm not sure I understand. Organized religion is just another way of transmitting the universal themes. Someone has to be responsible for passing on the knowledge in every tribe, for telling the stories. Christianity believes that it is not just truth but the only truth, and not part of a general mythology. If you're talking that kind of organization, no I don't think we need it for moral behavior. I think jp wrote that a hero acts on behalf of something larger than himself, or other than himself. To me that requires some moral decision. And by the way, I thought her comment on the kitten rescue was perfect. And then she wrote that terrific thing about how we confuse heroic quests with big things and knock ourselves out of the equation. Those big myths are just symbols for possible action. Roadmaps. If we could see our everyday lives in terms of a quest, wouldn't we act more nobly? Wouldn't we find more meaning? Aren't all of our actions transcendental in ways? (OK-I'm getting too metaphysical here) You could have said to your child,"Oh grow up. Who cares about a cat. I don't want to get my feet wet." There was certainly the possibility of anti-heroic behavior. I thought you made all sorts of heroic decisions. Well, like jp--I'm wondering what I'm talking about. And I KNOW I'm going to get privately lambasted by Freddy, who spares me public humiliation because we're friends, but has no such qualms in private.