Judeo. Unless you're starting a new religion whereby infant's foreskins are karate chopped off.
No one read the Bible? These people are not following it. CLEARLY!
Jesus said, he who is without sin cast the first stone.
What ever fucked up religion they have, it sure as hell isn't Judeo based.
But you know, I don't bother atheist, but they bother me every time they want a cross taken down from a memorial. So you have the "separation of church and state." That means something completely different! It does not mean take a cross from a burial ground. This country was founded on judo-christain beliefs. Like it or not. Anyone hear of that little line: We are endowed by our creator? What? Punk ass atheists want to change the Declaration Of Independence now too?
Something seems a little anachronistic about this Zen story. I mean, I don't think strawberries were eaten as a sweet fruit until the 14th century at the earliest, and that was in Europe. They were native to South America, too, but I don't think that was recognized until the 18th century. In any event, it's highly unlikely that strawberries reached Asia before the late 19th or early 20th century. Yet these Zen stories are usually set in the 7th to 10th century AD.There is a Zen story about a man chased of a cliff by a tiger. Clinging to roots he sees another tiger. As he hangs there weakening he spied a strawberry growing next to him on the cliff. He plucked it and it tasted so good.
This story changed my life and turned me inside out.
Rather than address the point of the story...you decide to try to pick apart the story! Unless of course you lack the ability to comprehend what Moonbeam said in the context of the story.,...Something seems a little anachronistic about this Zen story. I mean, I don't think strawberries were eaten as a sweet fruit until the 14th century at the earliest, and that was in Europe. They were native to South America, too, but I don't think that was recognized until the 18th century. In any event, it's highly unlikely that strawberries reached Asia before the late 19th or early 20th century. Yet these Zen stories are usually set in the 7th to 10th century AD.
So where did a man in the 8th or 9th century, chased by tigers (which are strictly Asian animals), see a SWEET strawberry growing wild? And why would he have even tried to eat it, since strawberries way back then were strictly used for medicinal purposes?
I don't know, Moonie. But this tiger/strawberry story seems rather contrived.
Rather mnthan address the point of the story...you decide to try to pick apart the story! Unless of course you lack the ability to comprehend what Moonbeam said in the context of the story.,...
That a dude got to eat a strawberry just before he was ripped apart by a hungry animal?
Well, this certainly changed the dude's life (into tiger poop), if not Moonbeam's.
That a dude got to eat a strawberry just before he was ripped apart by a hungry animal?
I thought from earlier posts that perhaps you had a serious interest in understanding.
Belive it or not but I do. I'm one of the few people I know that likes to learn about others opinions. My comment to him was to bait him into a response. I doubt he understood the meaning of the story.
Not trying to crash your small party with Realibrad, but why are you trying to be all mystical and mysterious? Why not just say what you intend to say rather than engaging in a dance? Ego?I'm surprised then that you seemed uninterested in how I know you know God exists.
As to the point I wished to make regarding how things may depend on how you look at something, you are a rational person who believes in science and science says an electron is a particle or a wave depending on which point of view you take. Now I believe that is true, but I also find it to be quite crazy, not where I would expected reason to lead me at all. Quantum mechanics seems to me to be completely other than what my poor brain was designed to handle. I accept such science as a matter of faith, faith in math I can't myself do.
Can't do or won't do?
Someday my life goal might be to teach Calculus to a person with down syndrome. Just to make all the people without down syndrome feel extremely guilty. I want them to feel guilty that for all the faith they have in this or that, they forgot the most important faith of all: Faith in themselves.
I bet I could do it too. Teach a person with down syndrome how to do Calculus. It might take years, and some...let's say... creative techniques...but I bet I could one day do it.
so you have no idea what the meaning of the story was all about? ok..keep on trucking!! I knew you had a learning disability!!That a dude got to eat a strawberry just before he was ripped apart by a hungry animal?
Why don't you start now ?
Not trying to crash your small party with Realibrad, but why are you trying to be all mystical and mysterious? Why not just say what you intend to say rather than engaging in a dance? Ego?
Can't do or won't do?
Someday my life goal might be to teach Calculus to a person with down syndrome. Just to make all the people without down syndrome feel extremely guilty. I want them to feel guilty that for all the faith they have in this or that, they forgot the most important faith of all: Faith in themselves.
I bet I could do it too. Teach a person with down syndrome how to do Calculus. It might take years, and some...let's say... creative techniques...but I bet I could one day do it.
I have other goals that take precedence over making people feel extremely guilty.
so you have no idea what the meaning of the story was all about? ok..keep on trucking!! I knew you had a learning disability!!
I'm surprised then that you seemed uninterested in how I know you know God exists.
Okay.