There are three major religions with origins in belief in the same deity. The root messages of all three religions are almost identical; only the rituals and surface trappings differ. If I report that a religion promotes honesty in one's dealings with others, charity for poor and needy, respect for oneself and others, humility, acceptance of the existence of a deity and wholehearted efforts to lead a good life all three of the great religions can accept this as a generic description of the teachings. People are still too uncivilized to see past the surface differences and accept the commonalities.I believe it is wrong to hold onto grudges either as individuals or as members of one or another religious group. As human beings we are rapidly approaching a barrier to our societal maturity. We need to learn to work together for the common good of all people and sincerely put aside arguments over the correct way to worship our common deity. If we continue to put more effort into proving ourselves better than the other group we will remain distracted from our real problems and never achieve the things we as human beings can accomplish.
Some things we can do might include:
1. Vastly improved life spans for everyone by advancing our real understanding of the mechanisms diseases and aging while learning how nutrition and lifestyle apply to lifespan
2. We can work through the barriers of knowledge that limit our understanding of the physical universe. With this knowledge we will become able to exercise the human nature of curiosity and exploration beyond this tiny little piece of the universe. This universe was not created just for decorating our sky. It is a tease to give us incentive to work together and spread humanity to the millions of worlds available to us.
3.Full medical knowledge will eliminate human suffering, especially that suffering caused by other humans.
The list of possibilities is limitless. Each of us, if we decide to, can think of something humans might achieve with cooperation. We each possess a built-in tendency to believe. The beliefs we accept are generally fed to us by religious leaders trained in certain styles. Religious style is very much like language. It provides for communication of abstract concepts in terms of concrete existence. The abstract concepts are the same - only the language differs. Once we accept this we begin the erode the barrier to our true destiny as the masters of this physical universe until we decide, each of his own accord, to pass on to the next level and share the next existence with our deity of choice and those who go before or come after.
DRP
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I think that you are right on this one. Personally, I do not care what anyone believes or does not believe when it comes to religion, sexual orientation, support abortion or not, support stem cell research or not, etc; I do not care. I do believe in our rights as Americans to have these freedoms, along with other freedoms that were written in our constitution by our founding fathers. I try to accept people as they are and not change them or force my ideas on them. As you well know, I am opinionated and will not apologize for being so. On the other hand, I do not want something forced upon me that I do not believe in and I should be able to say no, that is not the way that I see it and should not be called anti-American or unpatriotic. I am sick of watching everything that I speak for fear that I will say something that is not politically correct.
If you believe that Americans will ever unite, you saw it come about as close as it is going to get in the last election. The rest of the dream that people will come together is a dream and nothing more. Martin Luther King had that dream when you and I were youngsters. There is always going to be ignorance in this old world and people will judge other people by skin color, religion, sexual preference, whatever. The ignorance will overide what should be for the good of not the universe, but the American people. One of our biggest problems is that the US is too nosy for it's own good and we have our noses stuck into countries that do not want or appreciate our help. They do not want our opionions and our way of life shoved down their throats.
I do not want to live to the ripe old age of 90 plus years. What do we have to look forward to? I thought that at this age, if I was saving , most of the struggles from my younger life would be gone and I would not be rich, but comfortable to the point of not having to be stressed over financial issues. Well, that's not the way it is. You and I both know that we are trying to work and keep going physically, mentally, and spiritually when we are getting kicked around all the time just because we are at that age. No one really wants us. We are too young to retire and too old to be productive.
Most of the suffering caused by other humans is government political issues. My father used to say that war was a game played by beauracrats in Washington with other people's lives. He felt like he had served in WWII and Korea and there was no need for his only son to join any military branch. He felt that his debt to society had been paid. My brother joined the Navy.
The main thing that I see happening in this country is that if people would take care of their own business and stay out of their neighbors business and other countries businesses that do not want us there, we all would be better off. Bring our troops home and guard our borders and stop pushing democracy on people that really do not even know what it is about. I am not saying that we should not care for other people or help take care of them in our United States, but unless they request help. keep our noses where they belong. We are spead too thin and it is leaving our own country unprotected from future violence.
Cruel as it may seem, let them drink thir oil or pay the same for a barrel of wheat as they charge us for a barrel of oil. I have compassion for the poor, hungry, suffering people of this world, but the countries with the oil can feed their people with food bought by sales of that oil. We need the oil and they need the food. If their government does not care about it's own people, why should the US spend trillions on food and medicines? Why should it be on the backs of Americans to take care of what seems to be numerous countries when there are people in the US that are starving and doing without medical care? One nation can not support the rest of the world.
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