my history book keeps telling me about religion. the one i'm reading about right now is called zoroastreianism and it is basically the beginning of christianity, islam and judaism. the characters are ahura mazda, which is the all being god and angra mainyu, the route of all evil. one of these days (12,000 years from whatever point the religion was created, i guess), mazda will defeat mainyu and good will triumph. at that point, individuals will be judged and receive rewards or punishment.
in the meantime, there were 6 lesser deities doing their thing, presiding over whatever they do. this made me think of how we view the later religions as monotheistic. i don't think they are, really... we may have a 'big god' as did many of the earlier religions, but we also have lesser deities. we just call them saints and we worship them too, praying to the various saints for specific help - christopher for our travels, joseph for a job, anthony to return lost items, raphael for healing, etc.
dude, religions are really tripping me out right now.
Huh!
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; They listen with the intent to reply." ~ anonymous
"Keep calm and sing Soft Kitty"
"it is what it is!"
Apparently Im like a bad penny lol!
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; They listen with the intent to reply." ~ anonymous
"Keep calm and sing Soft Kitty"
"it is what it is!"
Just read this article: http://www.people.com/article/joe-ki...book_peoplemag, which led me to research more on that 2003 Great White concert fire. Which led me to this video, which is Holy Shit insane:
It's INSANE how quickly that place went up in flames.
Here is a direct link to the girl I knew. And from there you can look up all of the victims. 100 people died. And that video gave me nightmares. I didn't click on yours, but there's an extended one of there that shows before the concert started and you realize you're watching their last moments. Ever then other videos of hours later sifting through the bodies. Hearing the screams. Tragic.
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/...ms/sangers.htm
really? haha. today as i was cresting a hill by my house, a horse came into view and i was like, 'oh! a horsie! how pretty! SQUEE!'
yes, i still squee when i see one. maybe because it doesn't happen enough for me to think it's normal. seems like there is a house with goats and chickens on every street though.
well, i've officially seen my very first black-face halloween costume in person. it figures, going out to a bar on halloween in the desert would expose me to such a thing.
it was the taco lady. yes, the hispanic woman who makes tacos out back during the pool games came to the halloween party dressed as aunt jemima with dark face paint and bright red lips.
i had a frustrating mock counseling session in class today. i was the client who was a mugger with a gun, finds jobs just to steal the office equipment, a hardcore meth user and has sex with everybody even though i have aids.
my group of counselors basically prioritized my needs completely different than me. they though i should get off drugs and that wold solve all of my problems. i kept telling them that i felt like shit after mugging people and stealing things and that i did it compulsively because they were too tempting of targets but that i was a friendly and helpful person otherwise. i didn't want to quit drugs, i wanted to quit committing crimes and ending up in jail.
i spent most of the time fighting with them because they were disregarding my experience. as a client, i liked doing drugs and did not like going to church. asking me to quit drugs and go to church was not helpful.
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