I'll draw your attention to two intersecting Points:
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3945550M/Religion_as_entertainment
and also
http://www.4shared.com/office/mi0A53Qd/Taste_the_secret_meaning_of_th.html
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3945550M/Religion_as_entertainment
and also
http://www.4shared.com/office/mi0A53Qd/Taste_the_secret_meaning_of_th.html
Thesis:
It is my considered opinion that we have been having, essentially:
Th wrong conversations on the topic of 'religion'.
For a number of years I have used the following definitions
1) Spirituality: the methodologies we use to explore and integrate the experience of the Numinous
2) Religion: the methodologies we use to Teach our Children our understandings of our experiences of 1) spirituality
3) Philosophy: the methodologies and motivations put into pragmatic use to interact with our Fellow Human Beings, as informed by 2) religion and 1) spirituality
It is my considered opinion that we have been having, essentially:
Th wrong conversations on the topic of 'religion'.
For a number of years I have used the following definitions
1) Spirituality: the methodologies we use to explore and integrate the experience of the Numinous
2) Religion: the methodologies we use to Teach our Children our understandings of our experiences of 1) spirituality
3) Philosophy: the methodologies and motivations put into pragmatic use to interact with our Fellow Human Beings, as informed by 2) religion and 1) spirituality
Put in Those Terms? By These definitions?
All 'religious' disagreement comes down to a philosophical discussion.
But a philosophical discussion of a particular Kind:
All 'religious' disagreement comes down to a philosophical discussion.
But a philosophical discussion of a particular Kind:
Although we can have the philosophical discussion formed and informed with logic,
or rhetoric, or even semantics & linguistics,
or rhetoric, or even semantics & linguistics,
these are not the central disagreement.
The Central Discussion is,
In Point of Fact:
a Question of Aesthetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
In Point of Fact:
a Question of Aesthetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
SEE (comments attached to):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3562811246098&set=p.3562811246098&type=1&theater
Engineering= The Gentle Art of Problem Solving w/ Limited Resources'
-As an 'artsy' kinda guy, I didn't really understand 'Engineers',
until I came to this understanding..."Architects", Yes. Engineers, no.
Fortunately.....I do, Now: 'Understand'. I 'get' It.
Religion= "The Gentle Art of Teaching our Children How We Found Meaning"
Not much Religion in this ol' world, by that definiton, huh?
More on this Topic as I receive either Insight or Feedback.
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