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Thread #150301   Message #3501379
Posted By: GUEST,Blandiver
10-Apr-13 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Spiritualism as opposed to religion?
Subject: RE: BS: Spiritualism as opposed to religion?
The religion (or spiritually)
that will do that for you is the best.


The point is there are no answers, Jack. We're all in this life together (all 7 billion of us, and counting!) yet we must each of us die alone even as life goes on rejoicing. Even as I write : 208,000 births, but only 88,0000 deaths. This much is self-evident, and inescapable - unlike religion. The only self-evident thing about religion is that it was made up by the powerful to pacify & dis-empower their prey by removing from them the potential for self-actualisation. It does not operate to make us more ethical, compassionate, sensible, loving, or humanitarian - on the contrary, it engenders a mawkish sanctimonious reaction to secular common-to-all-7-billion-of-us reality which is, self-evidently, and very wonderfully, the whole of the case.