What is religious fundamentalisam?
Religious fundamentalisam is using a negative comprehension of religious books to achive positive ends with any (mostly negative) evil means.
WOUFF this is complicated, positive, negative, positive what???
I have to explain every term.
Negative comprehension of religious books
Major themes in all religious texts are: BE GOOD TOWARD OTHERS AND THEY WILL BE GOOD TOWARD YOU and BE GOOD TOWARD YOURSELF. Most popular saying from bible is ; "Eye for an Eye" You might get away sometimes if u hurt someone, but not all the time. If u get used to getting away from being punished for bad deeds you will get acros more powerfull people that will punish you back. Thats why Jesus teaches that 'Eye for an Eye' actually means turn other cheek so that someone else would not practice 'Eye for an Eye' on YOU. And that other people see you as someone trusting and good as they are. But, at the same time You have to be carefull of people who see you as naive and try to use you, 'Be Good To Yourself'. So, at any time you cannot break any of the rules from religious texts. As all religious books from Old testament, New testament, Kuran etc., just to mention most read books in western world, are writen with intention to educate people on what to do to have better and easier life, physical but mostly psychological. There are practical teachings about viruses and bacteria; The books have ritual water cleansing. Lets recall that up until recently people would wash themselvs only when using river crossings. Bible and Kuran also teach about praying rituals. Loud praying cause breathing effects that have positive effect on human mind and body. There is so many real life benefits from religious texts that doctors and scientists do not connect with Bible or Kuran. But Religious texts are mostly teachings about how to live our lives to have it better mentally, what is the right thing to do, what would you like to be done to you do it to others, and opposite: do not do to others that you would not like done upon you. Thats my comprehension of religious texts. You have to consider all aspects of a book, to clear out all conflicting explanations to reach one universal aspect that can be read again and go from that point as trying understanding it. Negative comprehension is taking any part of the text and understanding it any way you feel, even tough that understanding of it is against your understanding of other part of the book. Take 'Eye for an Eye'. If someone kills your son, you would kill killer's son to practice Eye for an Eye to keep your understanding of that part of Bible, Even tough Jesus said turn other cheek. Then sons brother might kill your brother to practice the same. Are you better off without son and a brother and a death on your hands then just without your son?
Positive ends
2 comments:
Jordan...
Hey, this is totally off YOUR topic, but I've been looking for you over at the Reichert blog..
Here is what I posted this AM
Jordan, Sandwichman, RS, Arthur, Anonymous, all you financial gurus...
HELP!!!
Another sleepless night. I am not an economist, I do not understand the mechanics of money and the banking system. I am an anthropologist.
We all act as if money is something real, concrete, as if it is the most important thing, but I don't know what it is. It is not tied to a standard, and with all the spiraling credit markets it seems to me that money doesn't exist except as a contract, an idea that the players agree upon...as my husband suggests, maybe even a *shared hallucination*.
Even gold has no value without our shared cultural concept that it has worth.
Somehow in this crazy credit market a concept of money has been created based on future earnings that has spiraled way beyond its value, because the promise of future earnings is so uncertain.
This is very hard for me to think about and I am getting a bit over my own head but I have some concrete issues.
Clearly, the investment banks have to go away. What happens to the rest of the economy if we let these big banks like Citigroup, Bank of American, Chase, etc. fail? They are a combination of traditional and investment banks...this is an issue that came up on the previous blog but didn't really get answered. People are saying that there are regional banks out there that are solid...not where I live!!! Our local banks have been bought up. Citibank owns our Mortgage and Bank of America owns our savings and checkings accounts.
There is some crazy new bank around with a name like 5th Third and I don't if it's regional or national. We've seen banks come and go like trendy boutique shops in the past few decades. In fact, the trendy boutique shops seem more stable!
If the dominoes start falling where does it end?
ANOTHER BURNING QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENS IF THE US GOES BANKRUPT?
What happens to social security, government jobs, international economic stability, international political stability?!!!
If money is nothing more than an shared concept, we as Americans have been getting the better end of the deal on a global basis. What if the rest of the world decides they don't want to support us anymore?
Linda
Jordan...have you read or heard of Immanuel Wallerstein?
Sorry to interrupt your religious blog with this off-topic. Delete it if you like.
Jordan...I hope you read this. WE HAVE CREATED A NEW BLOGSPOT FOR ALL OF THE RR GROUP. We are trying to round them up. So far we have Art, John Lawrence, Jack Lohmann, John Lawrence (who has Angry's address).
We created it at wordpress under my name but everybody is an administrator, including you when you join us!!! Hope you do soon.
It is at http://magdaleyna.wordpress.com/
and the blog is called "The Keeping Room." Everybody in our core group will be able to monitor the website and create blogs, and you will definitely be in the core group.
So come on over and give me a little fresh air.
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