I've decided to start a blog once I couldn't post on the board because I'm being infracted for being off-topic.
:D This way I can't ever be off-topic since it is my blog.
My first topic in this blog will be about:
[B]Religion and marriage, gay marriage, mixed religion marriage and interracial marriage [/B]
or
to paraphrase Tina:
;) [I]What's love got to do with it?[/I]
Let me start with the history of my father's parents. Although they are both Christians my grandfather is not a Catholic while my grandmother is. Back in the days my grandfather had to write the pope a letter to find out it if he could marry my grandmother.
Even as a child when I 1st heard this story this seemed odd to me. Wasn't it enough that my grandfather was in love with my grandmother and wanted to marry her?
Why would God or the pope as His earthly representative be against this? Isn't being in love enough reason to be married?
My grandfather only converted to Catholicism because of his youngest son wanting to be a priest.
:) Luckily when my own Catholic father wanted to marry my Protestant mother he could do so without having to ask the pope for permission.
Nowadays an interracial marriage and mixed religion marriage are considered 'normal'.
The only thing that is still viewed as ‘abnormal’ is a same sex marriage.
If I’m not mistaken 40 years ago in 16 states in the US an interracial marriage would’ve been against the law.
If you go farther back in time we’ll see that typical marriages were strictly arranged by parents, typically for financial gain. Hopefully nowadays this will not be the case anymore.
So history tells us that marriage is in a constant state of change and gay marriage simply is the next step in its evolution...presuming that critics of gay marriage believe in evolution.
:rolleyes: Hopefully over 40 years gay marriage will be as normal and accepted as interracial marriages are now.
:D This way I can't ever be off-topic since it is my blog.
My first topic in this blog will be about:
[B]Religion and marriage, gay marriage, mixed religion marriage and interracial marriage [/B]
or
to paraphrase Tina:
;) [I]What's love got to do with it?[/I]
Let me start with the history of my father's parents. Although they are both Christians my grandfather is not a Catholic while my grandmother is. Back in the days my grandfather had to write the pope a letter to find out it if he could marry my grandmother.
Even as a child when I 1st heard this story this seemed odd to me. Wasn't it enough that my grandfather was in love with my grandmother and wanted to marry her?
Why would God or the pope as His earthly representative be against this? Isn't being in love enough reason to be married?
My grandfather only converted to Catholicism because of his youngest son wanting to be a priest.
:) Luckily when my own Catholic father wanted to marry my Protestant mother he could do so without having to ask the pope for permission.
Nowadays an interracial marriage and mixed religion marriage are considered 'normal'.
The only thing that is still viewed as ‘abnormal’ is a same sex marriage.
If I’m not mistaken 40 years ago in 16 states in the US an interracial marriage would’ve been against the law.
If you go farther back in time we’ll see that typical marriages were strictly arranged by parents, typically for financial gain. Hopefully nowadays this will not be the case anymore.
So history tells us that marriage is in a constant state of change and gay marriage simply is the next step in its evolution...presuming that critics of gay marriage believe in evolution.
:rolleyes: Hopefully over 40 years gay marriage will be as normal and accepted as interracial marriages are now.
The Tao Of D: Hermits Part I
Posted 08-07-2008 at 01:59 AM by Tricky D
:D It is funny that [B]Redbird[/B] requested the hermit as a topic and that I’m infracted again for asking a tough question and then for publicly criticising a mod (when I wasn’t).
Now I’m forced to be a CD-hermit for 3 days, which gives me time enough to write this blog.
So let’s start with what a hermit is and according to wikipedia a hermit can mean several things:
[QUOTE]A hermit (from the Greek ἔρημος erēmos, signifying "desert", "uninhabited", hence "desert-dweller"; adjective: "eremitic") is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society.
1) In Christianity the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament (i.e. the forty years wandering in the desert that was meant to bring about a change of heart).
2) In the ascetic eremitic life, the hermit seeks solitude for meditation, contemplation, and prayer without the distractions of contact with human society, sex, or the need to maintain socially acceptable standards of cleanliness or dress. The ascetic discipline can also include a simplified diet and/or manual labor as a means of support.
3) Friedrich Nietzsche, in his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, created the character of the hermit Zarathustra (named after the Zoroastrian prophet Zarathushtra), who emerges from seclusion to extol his philosophy to the rest of humanity.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermit]Hermit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url][/QUOTE]:)I’ve always considered myself a hermit, although a modern urban 1 because here in the Netherlands you cannot survive outside the city.
Simply because there is no real nature outside the urban areas here, the white man succeeded in utterly destroying the natural functioning ecosystem.
You might ask yourself why I called modern society ‘the white man’ and the answer is because the white man is the foundation of modern society.
Most people will call modern society a boon, while I call it a curse.
:rolleyes: Which by the way made me realize that I’m a hermit because I see modern society as the ultimate Babylon.
But I did not start out being a hermit by seeing society as Babylon; the very 1st question that nudged me on the path of the modern urban hermit is the question: [I]Which is more important, society or the individual?[/I] I asked myself the question at the age of 10 and only in my 20’s did I formulated a satisfactory answer.
But because of this single question I’ve slowly started to realize that there’re cracks in the foundation of modern society.
One of these cracks is religion and another 1 is affluence.
The thing about being a hermit is that not everyone is cut out to be 1.
Only those who don’t mind being alone will persevere in the hermit lifestyle.
Once I started my quest to find the answer to my question (which was more important; the individual or society) I discovered that I was not as the majority of the people.
I was not easily satisfied with the answers they gave to my questions.
Even as a kid I learned that religion generally cares more about faith than the truth and soon I started to distrust everyone who claimed that instead of trusting my God-given 4 senses and my God-given intellect I should only trust scripture instead.
I mean why would God give us our 4 senses and an intellect if we should not trust them?
And why would God insist that the Gospel is the truth if there is no (physical) proof?
Only lies insist on faith while a truth stands on its own merit.
:cool: A truth is and a lie simply is not.
To be continued.
Now I’m forced to be a CD-hermit for 3 days, which gives me time enough to write this blog.
So let’s start with what a hermit is and according to wikipedia a hermit can mean several things:
[QUOTE]A hermit (from the Greek ἔρημος erēmos, signifying "desert", "uninhabited", hence "desert-dweller"; adjective: "eremitic") is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society.
1) In Christianity the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament (i.e. the forty years wandering in the desert that was meant to bring about a change of heart).
2) In the ascetic eremitic life, the hermit seeks solitude for meditation, contemplation, and prayer without the distractions of contact with human society, sex, or the need to maintain socially acceptable standards of cleanliness or dress. The ascetic discipline can also include a simplified diet and/or manual labor as a means of support.
3) Friedrich Nietzsche, in his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, created the character of the hermit Zarathustra (named after the Zoroastrian prophet Zarathushtra), who emerges from seclusion to extol his philosophy to the rest of humanity.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermit]Hermit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url][/QUOTE]:)I’ve always considered myself a hermit, although a modern urban 1 because here in the Netherlands you cannot survive outside the city.
Simply because there is no real nature outside the urban areas here, the white man succeeded in utterly destroying the natural functioning ecosystem.
You might ask yourself why I called modern society ‘the white man’ and the answer is because the white man is the foundation of modern society.
Most people will call modern society a boon, while I call it a curse.
:rolleyes: Which by the way made me realize that I’m a hermit because I see modern society as the ultimate Babylon.
But I did not start out being a hermit by seeing society as Babylon; the very 1st question that nudged me on the path of the modern urban hermit is the question: [I]Which is more important, society or the individual?[/I] I asked myself the question at the age of 10 and only in my 20’s did I formulated a satisfactory answer.
But because of this single question I’ve slowly started to realize that there’re cracks in the foundation of modern society.
One of these cracks is religion and another 1 is affluence.
The thing about being a hermit is that not everyone is cut out to be 1.
Only those who don’t mind being alone will persevere in the hermit lifestyle.
Once I started my quest to find the answer to my question (which was more important; the individual or society) I discovered that I was not as the majority of the people.
I was not easily satisfied with the answers they gave to my questions.
Even as a kid I learned that religion generally cares more about faith than the truth and soon I started to distrust everyone who claimed that instead of trusting my God-given 4 senses and my God-given intellect I should only trust scripture instead.
I mean why would God give us our 4 senses and an intellect if we should not trust them?
And why would God insist that the Gospel is the truth if there is no (physical) proof?
Only lies insist on faith while a truth stands on its own merit.
:cool: A truth is and a lie simply is not.
To be continued.
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Tricky , wow, I just may be a christian hermit,not so much on my own, but because of the many different denominations and sects therein each claiming to be the true one....hmmmmmPosted 08-07-2008 at 04:54 AM by Miss Blue
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:) I started out as an 'ascetic eremitic' hermit, then became a Christian hermit for the exact same reason as you Blue. I mean my father is a Catholic and my mother a Protestant but I found both denominations 'lacking' something.
Nowadays I do not consider myself a true hermit, especially since I'm not bothered by any depressions anymore.
:rolleyes: Now I consider myself more like Nietzsche where [B]Tricky D[/B] is a created character from all the bits and pieces in my life.Posted 08-07-2008 at 09:36 AM by Tricky D
