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Thread #150301   Message #3501326
Posted By: GUEST,Blandiver
10-Apr-13 - 06:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Spiritualism as opposed to religion?
Subject: RE: BS: Spiritualism as opposed to religion?
Our Spirituality, like our Sexuality, is common to all yet unique to each and every one of us in terms of the empirical experience of the beauty of the thing. Religion is to Spirituality what Pornography is to Sexuality - it exploits that which is perfectly natural and best experienced in all wonder, love, passion, mystery, awe & innocent reverie.

It gets so bad that some find they need Religion and/or Pornography to get off, but I think most of us still prefer the real thing. Far from being mutually exclusive, Erotica & Religiosity combine at a very base & ancient level giving their fundamental significances in our lives - Birth / Biology / Death and our attendant hopes & fears / joys & sorrows. But, as with music, there is no truth, just a matter of personal & individual taste & myriad diversities arising, which will always give the lie to notions of God and Absolutism.

They can't all be right, but they CAN all be wrong, and if one is wrong, then, quite simply, they all simply must be wrong. All Religions were made up, just like every other aspect of human culture; wondrous concepts indeed, but not one as wondrous as the simple joys of holy communion with a lover or the loving living light we see in our children's eyes or else the tears we weep in mourning the passing of a loved one.

Daily we experience the sweet Epiphany of Empirical life made all the sweeter by the fact that MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, an is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLoQ-sNvhec

Daily we experience the ranting of those who claim have the answers. To them, it must be said, we haven't even figured out what the questions are yet. Personally, I doubt we ever will.