'Jaynestown' and the nature of faith part II. What are your thoughts on Gods or God or Deity?
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They come from John Carter of Mars. Burroughs in turn adapted them from the Japanese samurai. Lucas' Jedi are fairly heavily derivative of Zoroastrianism, where the forces of light, the Yah, fight against the dark side, the Druj, which i see is acknowledged on the site. The name Sith is of course adapted form the Celtic Sidhe. People make new religions all the time. In Kansas it's a hobbie. My favorite so far of those Open Source Religion, but I have to give a nod to the flying spaghetti monster.
The Jedi say they're nippo-zoroastirans. The Japanese are shinto-bhuddists, and shinto is from shin tao, shin being the name for god, all over asia. Mt. Sinai, Shiva, and China are all named for Shin. It means, originally, the moon. Our word Shine comes from it.
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I posted this somewhere else but it belongs here. I struggle with this as a Taoist Jew.
In Taoism, the forces of nature are older and deeper than the world. They are all powerful and unknowable. That reflects the universe we see. Judaism, however, has scripture. Scripture is the knowing of God. And God can't exist except as the culmination of forces which cannot be known. So it's a conundrum.
That's part of what lead me on that hunt with Antimason to find the origin of scripture. We both expected that to end in one source, but in fact as you go further back, it just scatters to the four winds at some point.
I guess I'd say that Scripture is the work of many men trying to discern the way of an unknowable God. Hence, it is prone to inconsistency, contradiction and error. The end result is a culmination, which, if viewed in the abstract, is true, as a holistic view of the overall intent of the forces expressed in scripture.Quote:
Originally posted by Riverlove:
I worship Lynn Gilmartin. Does that count?
Only if you think she has magical powers.
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Rural people don't practice religion more than their urban counterparts, survey shows
https://www.wataugademocrat.com/news/national/rural-people-dont-practi
ce-religion-more-than-their-urban-counterparts-survey-shows/collection_92cf5189-f847-57e2-9d68-ece83ca99228.html
another English language news service from India
Uruguay is the only country in Latin America that does not celebrate Christmas
https://worldnationnews.com/uruguay-is-the-only-country-in-latin-ameri
ca-that-does-not-celebrate-christmas/
How to visit Japan's shrines and temples—with respect
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/japan-shrines-temple
s-shinto-buddhism-history
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worth reading over Easter?
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