so its no surprise that i'm not a big fan of 'religion'...there was always something about man imposed rules that bothered me...i think i always knew deep down, even as a young kiddo that it wasn't really god that made those rules-but people...people who were in positions of power like the roman constantin centuries ago, who for political reasons, decided then what roman catholicism would entail and, yes, which parts of the bible he would put in after picking and choosing only those apostles that fit his religious agenda...
...its funny how only mark, matthew, luke and john are in the bible as gospels, but there are so many others who wrote gospels, like mary magdalene and thomas who never made it in the bible...yet, they too like the others published in the bible, all had important messages to pass down..
yet another reason to lose respect for structured religion...
only few know of these hidden gospels, and their messages, which is sad since they portray a whole new viewpoint to jesus' life on earth (gnostics etc...) and that, till this day, remains unpopular...once the bible was written (which, by the way, was written 300 years after jesus died, so lots lost in translation there too), it had its first and longest lasting impact (no matter how biased it was to the interpreters and writers), leaving less room for the other gospels, even though they were and are equally important and worth studying...
...i'm not downplaying the bible and its sacred messages,(afterall, i read the whole thing from start to finish), but one shouldn't take it word for word...for one thing, there are many inconsistencies and contradictions in the bible that lead you to question what really happened...for example, when two or more apostles are talking about any given event, in one version, so and so was there, and in another version, so and so wasn't there which led to different circumstances, so you have to ask yourself and challenge the bible's validity and accuracy of events...
...its good to live by the bible, more so the bigger picture of it and jesus' messages, and not bother with the smaller details since they're just not unfortunately accurate...
where was i going with this...oh yes, i started these thoughts today because my mom questioned me about eating meat on christmas eve and how we shouldn't be doing that because of 'our' custom...i told her not to place so much emphasis on what 'man' tells you what god wants from you...and it isn't rules, laws and practices or customs, its not eat this, don't eat that, fast then, give up for 40 days, its just simply, do to others as you would have done to you...love one another...that's it, nothing else, simple stupid...
..to find god, look inside, deep deep inside and you'll find him...or, in other words...
'be still and know that i am god'
amen.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
so my course is going okay so far, but i'm spending much less time on it than i thought i initially would...probably because the first book i've decided to start is the most boring and least relevant...i remember those courses that were mandatory when taking my psychology degree that had nothing to do with anything else, but for some reason, was deemed necessary for the rest of the degree...well, this is one of them...stress management..i guess it can be relevant, but i'm guessing it has to do more with those who would choose to later become workers of holistics...
hubby and i had a discussion a few nights ago watching a documentary about the 'universe' and the 'cosmos'...this is probably one subject where we have shared interest (believe it or not)...i for spiritual and metaphysical reasons, him for scientific reasons...
...anyhow, it was discussing how astronomers have recently discovered that the universe is so much bigger than initially thought...like totally totally massive and so much space, that "the conscious mind cannot grasp or make any sense of how large it really is"
..and this is really true. thank you for making the point i've been trying to make for so long and trying to articulate for so long...
...i like to think of it this way...
imagine you were born a fish...think of the amount of space you get to have being able to swim wherever you want in a vast ocean, and think of the space you swim over your whole life being a fish...lets say its 200km's...(that's a lot for a small fish, right?)
now being born a fish, you're instinctually born with certain traits...to look for food, to procreate, to defend etc...these are the traits needed to live as a fish...you instinctually know who your mamma is and who your enemies are, i say instinctually since you've never looked at yourself in a mirror to know what you look like and what, hence, your mamma looks like...in other words, how do you know you're a catfish for example, and not a clown fish?...how do you know your mamma isn't really a clown fish? (interesting eh?)
anyways, back on track...to this fish, its world is massive, it can probably keep on swimming on and on and on and on, in its mind, infinitely (and given the amount of ocean space, it wouldn't live long enough to swim every square inch of it)...but the fish doesn't really know where it ends-it doesn't really know that if it peeks its head out of the water and is able to look around and somehow see the whole earth at a glance, how large is really is after all...
that's kind of like us....the size of the solar system, then the universe, then the cosmos is so subjective because we're measuring it in terms of the five senses god gave us to work with...the traits needed to live here on earth, and not much else...we don't have what we need in order to understand the size and meaning of the universe, we were built like that on purpose, after all, we really don't NEED to know what's out there, we're just on earth to learn lessons and when we die, we get to find out the real meaning of life and the universe...
when the astronomers say "our conscious minds are too small to really understand the enormous space out there", they're right...human beings tend to approach knowledge very subjectively...the size of the universe to us humans is as proportionate as the size of the ocean space to the little fish...it can't possibly fathom how much space it really has and how much space really is out there after all...in order to study the massive concept of the universe from the viewpoint of a human being, we must liken it to the viewpoint of a fish toward its ocean..by studying things of a smaller scale and applying the same principles to those of a larger scale (the universe), we can begin to grasp what's really out there...
...we are in fact, probably just a speck of the larger order out there and part of a larger organism working together as one, interdependant upon each other just like a delicate ecosystem...
..humans will probably never get all the answers while here on earth, but they are trying!
the best position to take is this:
i'm a human being built instinctually with limited senses and traits that i need to survive and learn lessons on earth (just like the fish-nothing more, nothing less), and i don't begin to possess what's needed to understand or 'figure out' the universe and that will never change...
in other words, i'm fine with knowing that i don't know now and never will know...(at least in this life)..
hubby and i had a discussion a few nights ago watching a documentary about the 'universe' and the 'cosmos'...this is probably one subject where we have shared interest (believe it or not)...i for spiritual and metaphysical reasons, him for scientific reasons...
...anyhow, it was discussing how astronomers have recently discovered that the universe is so much bigger than initially thought...like totally totally massive and so much space, that "the conscious mind cannot grasp or make any sense of how large it really is"
..and this is really true. thank you for making the point i've been trying to make for so long and trying to articulate for so long...
...i like to think of it this way...
imagine you were born a fish...think of the amount of space you get to have being able to swim wherever you want in a vast ocean, and think of the space you swim over your whole life being a fish...lets say its 200km's...(that's a lot for a small fish, right?)
now being born a fish, you're instinctually born with certain traits...to look for food, to procreate, to defend etc...these are the traits needed to live as a fish...you instinctually know who your mamma is and who your enemies are, i say instinctually since you've never looked at yourself in a mirror to know what you look like and what, hence, your mamma looks like...in other words, how do you know you're a catfish for example, and not a clown fish?...how do you know your mamma isn't really a clown fish? (interesting eh?)
anyways, back on track...to this fish, its world is massive, it can probably keep on swimming on and on and on and on, in its mind, infinitely (and given the amount of ocean space, it wouldn't live long enough to swim every square inch of it)...but the fish doesn't really know where it ends-it doesn't really know that if it peeks its head out of the water and is able to look around and somehow see the whole earth at a glance, how large is really is after all...
that's kind of like us....the size of the solar system, then the universe, then the cosmos is so subjective because we're measuring it in terms of the five senses god gave us to work with...the traits needed to live here on earth, and not much else...we don't have what we need in order to understand the size and meaning of the universe, we were built like that on purpose, after all, we really don't NEED to know what's out there, we're just on earth to learn lessons and when we die, we get to find out the real meaning of life and the universe...
when the astronomers say "our conscious minds are too small to really understand the enormous space out there", they're right...human beings tend to approach knowledge very subjectively...the size of the universe to us humans is as proportionate as the size of the ocean space to the little fish...it can't possibly fathom how much space it really has and how much space really is out there after all...in order to study the massive concept of the universe from the viewpoint of a human being, we must liken it to the viewpoint of a fish toward its ocean..by studying things of a smaller scale and applying the same principles to those of a larger scale (the universe), we can begin to grasp what's really out there...
...we are in fact, probably just a speck of the larger order out there and part of a larger organism working together as one, interdependant upon each other just like a delicate ecosystem...
..humans will probably never get all the answers while here on earth, but they are trying!
the best position to take is this:
i'm a human being built instinctually with limited senses and traits that i need to survive and learn lessons on earth (just like the fish-nothing more, nothing less), and i don't begin to possess what's needed to understand or 'figure out' the universe and that will never change...
in other words, i'm fine with knowing that i don't know now and never will know...(at least in this life)..
Saturday, December 12, 2009
good bye sadd
thank heavens for sunlight lamps...i don't know if its just a coincidence but the day i got and started using my sunlight lamp, all my sadd symptoms are gone...gone...gone...no nausea, no fatigue and lack of energy, no depressive symptoms, and most importantly, the extreme incontrollable hunger...GONE! thank god for that one, i was on my way to getting real fat...although i did pack on some extra 5llbs that i'm now working on getting rid of which, as usual, isn't easy...
...on a sidenote, have since started my parapsychic science courses and i'm starting with the most boring and unrelated books first to get them out of the way (you know how in every degree program, there's always that one or two subject that you have to take that has nothing to do with what you're taking?)
...exciting stuff...
...on a sidenote, have since started my parapsychic science courses and i'm starting with the most boring and unrelated books first to get them out of the way (you know how in every degree program, there's always that one or two subject that you have to take that has nothing to do with what you're taking?)
...exciting stuff...
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