Tobin wrote: Oh, let him preach Quasi. We need a Bible literalist to balance out gdemetz and Themis. If we could get a Quran literalist opening threads and posting the whole of the Quran, then I think that would be a bit much. But we aren't there yet.
Hey, I'd be up for quoting the Gita verse by verse. It would only take a couple of days of lazy posting. Easier yet, I could just post a link. http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/
I'm expecting everyone to read this and get back to me (especially you, Tobin )
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Tobin wrote: Oh, let him preach Quasi. We need a Bible literalist to balance out gdemetz and Themis. If we could get a Quran literalist opening threads and posting the whole of the Quran, then I think that would be a bit much. But we aren't there yet.
That might make a good thread "daily verse from other relgions' wierd books of scripture" Why should the Bible, Book of Mormon, D&C, PofGP, get all of the scrutiny?
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits
How about this just my first sample from the Bhagavad-Gita, chapter 2:
Better to live on beggar's bread With those we love alive, Than taste their blood in rich feasts spread, And guiltily survive! Ah! were it worse- who knows?- to be Victor or vanquished here, When those confront us angrily Whose death leaves living drear? In pity lost, by doubtings tossed, My thoughts- distracted- turn To Thee, the Guide I reverence most, That I may counsel learn: I know not what would heal the grief Burned into soul and sense, If I were earth's unchallenged chief- A god- and these gone thence!
Beautiful, original, ancient poetry with lots of metaphors?
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.
MCB wrote:How about this just my first sample from the Bhagavad-Gita, chapter 2:
Better to live on beggar's bread With those we love alive, Than taste their blood in rich feasts spread, And guiltily survive! Ah! were it worse- who knows?- to be Victor or vanquished here, When those confront us angrily Whose death leaves living drear? In pity lost, by doubtings tossed, My thoughts- distracted- turn To Thee, the Guide I reverence most, That I may counsel learn: I know not what would heal the grief Burned into soul and sense, If I were earth's unchallenged chief- A god- and these gone thence!
Beautiful, original, ancient poetry with lots of metaphors?
Chapter one is where the great metaphors start.
It's very early morning. The sun is just starting to rise. Arjuna asks his chariot driver (who turns out to be God... not one God, but the personification of all Gods to all people) to drive him into the "no man's land" between the two great armies about to engage in a terrible battle. He is despondent because the opposing force consists of his friends and relatives. The balance of the Gita is the conversation that takes place between a mortal (Arjuna) and God (Krishna).
Arjuna (the mortal) asks many poignant questions of God and he answers them. I don't think there is anything quite like it in any religion.
God is the chariot driver.
The setting is between to opposing forces just before a battle.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
I guess the best test is to read it, and see if it provides a better guide for living than the Bible.
Have you read the Bhagavad Gita? A very small book (it will take you a couple of hours to read). Available at any book store. It's lovely.
Its not a book. Its a part of the Mahabharata, which is an epic poem about ten times longer than both the Illiad and the Odyssey combined.
I do agree with the part about it being lovely though.
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. - O'Sensei
SteelHead wrote:Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
I understand Robert Oppenheimer was fond of this quote (and rightly so).
Something as offtopic as those above:
There were some Hungarians around him... Edward Teller (Teller Ede) Leó Szilárd (Szilárd Leó) Eugene Wigner (Wigner Jenő) John Von Neumann (Neumann János)
At a top secret meeting of the Manhattan Project General Groves left for the gents' room. Szilard then said: - Perhaps we may now continue in Hungarian!
The American word "movie" probably derived from the Hungarian "mozi". Cynics says that Hungarians created America's Hollywood before other Hungarians less destructively created America's A-bomb.
For other details, see The Martians on the Science History page of the site of KFKI (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).
And we have the "bottle dance", too...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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