Burqa (5 Viewers)

[Sheik Yerbouti]

In the end, it's not about the people who are religious, but religions themselves. Specifically, theistic religions, and not the ones like Buddhism or Jainism who believe there is no God, creator or heaven and hell.

You know, I think I'll write a blog post about my religious views just to clear things up.

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Alen]

speaking of that Alen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWSOUTWb0kk

Exactly
One of my grandmas that comes from southern Balkans wore it too. She also had a cross tattooed between the eyebrows
Like this woman:

I loved my grandma. Her cross was tattooed to protect her from the Turks, even though the Turks left 4 years before she was born
She was "sick and going to die anytime" ever since I knew her but she still managed to die at 92.

 

[Snoop]

Exactly
One of my grandmas that comes from southern Balkans wore it too. She also had a cross tattooed between the eyebrows
Like this woman:

I loved my grandma. Her cross was tattooed to protect her from the Turks, even though the Turks left 4 years before she was born
She was "sick and going to die anytime" ever since I knew her but she still managed to die at 92.

Were Turks vampires then?

 

[Alen]

Were Turks vampires then?

One of the versions I heard was that the Turks didn't even come close to the girls with a cross on their forehead, so there was no danger the girl to be abducted by some Turkish bey. At least that's what my grandmother was telling me. Later I found out that the reasons for that tattoo were different and the cross was tattooed even before the Turks came in the Balkans.

 

[Snoop]

crazy times!

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Exactly
One of my grandmas that comes from southern Balkans wore it too. She also had a cross tattooed between the eyebrows
Like this woman:

I loved my grandma. Her cross was tattooed to protect her from the Turks, even though the Turks left 4 years before she was born
She was "sick and going to die anytime" ever since I knew her but she still managed to die at 92.

tough cookie

 

[GordoDeCentral]

In the end, it's not about the people who are religious, but religions themselves. Specifically, theistic religions, and not the ones like Buddhism or Jainism who believe there is no God, creator or heaven and hell.

You know, I think I'll write a blog post about my religious views just to clear things up.

wrong both are offshoots of hinduism, with gods demi-gods demons, sukkha dukkha no different

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

wrong both are offshoots of hinduism, with gods demi-gods demons, sukkha dukkha no different

No different? Come one. The difference is obvious. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. There really are no Gods or creation myth in Buddhism and Jainism. Sukkha and dukkha just means tranquillity and suffering. 2 human emotions that is common to everyone. Achieving tranquillity and peace and avoiding or ending suffering is a much more believable concept than heaven or hell. They don't have a holy book similar to the Bible, Quran, Gita or Torah. And at least their moral values and guidelines to live a good life are clearer than anything else I've heard or read.

Oh they are different alright.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

No different? Come one. The difference is obvious. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. There really are no Gods or creation myth in Buddhism and Jainism. Sukkha and dukkha just means tranquillity and suffering. 2 human emotions that is common to everyone. Achieving tranquillity and peace and avoiding or ending suffering is a much more believable concept than heaven or hell. They don't have a holy book similar to the Bible, Quran, Gita or Torah. And at least their moral values and guidelines to live a good life are clearer than anything else I've heard or read.

Oh they are different alright.

judaism doesnt have a hell per se, and christians dont have a consensus of what 'hell' is, the majority beleive hell is the absence of God i.e peace and tranquility. all dogmas preach more or less the same but you can choose to read what you want in anything.


N.B: buddhism has a holy book with sutras and all

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

judaism doesnt have a hell per se, and christians dont have a consensus of what 'hell' is, the majority beleive hell is the absence of God i.e peace and tranquility. all dogmas preach more or less the same but you can choose to read what you want in anything.


N.B: buddhism has a holy book with sutras and all

Deneb, are you kidding me? I've not heard even one Christian or Muslim claim that heaven is just a state of being in peace and tranquillity. Not one. So I've just been dreaming up all this shit about a fiery pit with endless burning and suffering, lake of fire and the full of smoke kind of description of Hell? The claim of an afterlife? Paradise, beautiful trees, animals, birds, I'm just dreaming this stuff up? Am I the delusional psycho here? FFS!

Yes, there is a book of sutras and mantras, but does it have mythical, non-sensical stories about men born from virgins, parting seas, beheading their son and amalgamating him with the head of an elephant! They may be books, but what they claim is completely different. It's not about choosing what you read it. It's about what is actually written there. And to me, the difference is obvious.

I gotta ask you, are you just trolling?

 

[GordoDeCentral]

seriously bro go read on the subject

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

seriously bro go read on the subject

I've been taught at least the basics of these religions(Islam and Judaism aside) in school to know the difference. They are not similar. They may have a few things in common, but they seem to go about it different ways. I do not need to read the books all over to know this.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

I've been taught at least the basics of these religions(Islam and Judaism aside) in school to know the difference. They are not similar. They may have a few things in common, but they seem to go about it different ways. I do not need to read the books all over to know this.

dont read their 'books', but books on the subject. and for comparative religions i recommend joseph campbell(he has a lot of lectures on youtube)

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

dont read their 'books', but books on the subject. and for comparative religions i recommend joseph campbell(he has a lot of lectures on youtube)

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.

But really, do you think there's no difference between them?

 

[swag]

Deneb, are you kidding me? I've not heard even one Christian or Muslim claim that heaven is just a state of being in peace and tranquillity.

I do. People who call themselves Christians who believe that "heaven" can be in the here and now on this earth.

dont read their 'books', but books on the subject. and for comparative religions i recommend joseph campbell(he has a lot of lectures on youtube)

Joseph Campbell rules.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.

But really, do you think there's no difference between them?

there are differences of course ut when it comes to what makes humans click it is the same imo it appeals to the same primal emotions of fear and hope, all religion play on those

 

[Ahmed]

I'd rethink the idea of starting a blog on 'religious views' Sheik.

 

[swag]

I'd rethink the idea of starting a blog on 'religious views' Sheik.

Dhee-Dhee's daily "Your religion sucks" post?

 

[X Æ A-12]

Do it, Sheik.

The world needs to hear from you.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I'd rethink the idea of starting a blog on 'religious views' Sheik.

I wouldn't. It's just an outlet of my idea and opinions about the matter. I know that I don't know everything about it. I know that I can be wrong about certain things. But that's exactly what I expect from all this. I'm still in the process of forming a solid opinion TBH, and such discussions always help as long as I keep an open mind and not let emotions take over (which I admit I let happen a few posts back). I don't expect to get theology, let alone anything else, right in the first attempt.

@deneb: That's what I feel too. I think of it as fear-mongering sometimes.