Roland wrote:Therefore, enjoy everything life has to offer in a way that is kindest to others, harming no one. Treat all others as if they live in a world in which you don't know how you yourself will be born: of what colour, whether possessing all or less than the normal human faculties, of what gender or orientation (or lack of it) or anything else.
Don't go by ancient texts or modern religious instruction. They are all immoral written by clever yet ignorants who themselves transgress what they teach and interpret those texts to follow the laws and morals of modern society instead of the other way around Those ancient scriptures make differences among us, teach us to hate, guide us with fear, burdening us with some guilt called sin as if as human beings we have evolved and live without any moral compass within us. If some God out of all the other Gods you believe is the true one, is omniscient, why would he or she create us knowing the kind of life which has been predestined for us under the guise of a free will. Can you really have a free will when your God already knows how you will exercise it? ----------------------------------------------------- Roland,Heaven, for me, is a peaceful spot where you can cast your line and catch a fish every third cast or so. It also is the place where one has all the ingredients and the time to try every seafood recipe known to the universe. Your buddies, who never grow old, come over every weekend for a sing song session and tigers are non-existent. To others, heaven is the place where one can solve a challenge that has stumped everyone else who has tried. To yet others, heaven is the ability to spread light - where there is just darkness and ignorance. The lucky ones, the few lucky ones, have found heaven. However, I just love it that there are an excess of people preaching on what to do to get to heaven - and they themselves are unable to practice what they preach. At times I feel that the most blissful - are those people who feel that a small donation to God, or a holy man, is all that it takes to get to heaven. Lastly, I just don't understand why a person who has converted to a god free life finds that he also needs to lead a crusade to convert all to the same er, lifestyle. Yours in heavenly peace. Mervyn
