tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post5489358286764688094..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): religion as a buttress and bulwarkgenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-34106573514830590162017-11-17T19:29:45.664-05:002017-11-17T19:29:45.664-05:00Andy -- Tnx esp. for pointing out a confusing refe...Andy -- Tnx esp. for pointing out a confusing references to whom I was talking about. Your words prompted a small rewrite. Unfortunately, I have no one looking over my shoulder and can get tangled in my own shoelaces.genkakuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-23177338553186038102017-11-17T16:53:38.947-05:002017-11-17T16:53:38.947-05:00Feel sorry for your friend and her family.
I’m co...Feel sorry for your friend and her family.<br /><br />I’m confused about who did the railing the boy friend or the father. Whoever it was got tripped up by one of the oldest traps in the book of religion: expecting magical improvements in this life for doing good deeds. I know of no religion that teachers that simplistic notion, but it is very common.<br /><br />As to whether those good deeds will be rewarded in some way in some beyond is at best guaranteed by some supposed laws of karma or Heavenly Award, but at worst should only be seen as being completely unrelated. The reward, the result was to be garnered in the act of helping itself. The smile, the relief, the gratitude.<br /><br />I’d personally be more upset if I meticulously watched my diet, exercised moderately for two hours a day, conscientiously slept 8 hours a day and took my meds, visited the doctor according to scheduled and then got a serious decease than if I prayed, chanted, meditated and did numerous good works and still got a serious disease. I think we studied Job in Relgion in Grammar School where we were taught “God Works in Mysterious Ways.” By a religion that had its share of deep thinkers, deep prayers, superior administrators and successful politicians. (As well as degenerate slime balls.)<br /><br />A Buddhist meditation teacher I once studied with frequently would remark, “It’s all in how you take it.” I have little doubt he was onto something.<br /><br />I know nothing about the 7-Dayers but given the reaction, the incident leaves me with a head scratcher.<br /><br />As for watching Fox News only. That sends shivers up and down my spine. That’s cult behavior.<br /><br />I watch Fox from time to time. They present an alternative universe. A universe with few facts but lots of opinion stated as fact. I remember when Canada refused them a license when the regulators confronted the network with its lies and then network would not promise to stop.<br /><br />The last time I watched Fox they were praising Dr. Ben Carson as the smartest and wisest African American. Linguistically alone it was a bizarro form of racism, factually it was an insult to all other Black Scholars, Scientists, Artists and Businessmen.<br /><br />I most respectfully beseech your friend to google critical thinking skills, learn them and apply them.<br /> <br />Andy Shizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15215297395548845513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-16917197841644148642017-11-17T13:17:35.466-05:002017-11-17T13:17:35.466-05:00He apparently had an expectation.
He apparently had an expectation.<br />olcharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00309255390011851502noreply@blogger.com