"All religions share a very fundamental, valuable basis. It is as the religion flowers that it begins to lose meaning." - Nick Raby
For a second I feel as if I need to dive into my own religion and try and compare and base it to this class and reality as a whole...if that makes any sense to anyone.
As with any religion, there is a core set of beliefs that I hold near and dear. I'm sure these morals of mine will be told throught this blog and the next. I guess you could compare the core of my beliefs to the flowers that has not bloomed yet. They are just a set of things within me that no one truly knows about and they may not be that "pretty" persay.
But once they flower, others find out about them. The words get spread. And the whole idea may get beautiful. This is where we all run into problems. The fact that they may become beautiful. They may turn out quite ugly and result in the ideas of a Hitler. But at least in my case I'd like to think that the theoretically flower I am calling myself and my thoughts is one that is beautiful.
But if I am to just keep those beliefs and the religion inside me, what is the point? Yes, it may give me something to believe in, but the basis of most religions is to help the greater good. And there is no way that I myself am the greater good. If religion doesn't flower, then it has already lost its meaning. In reality (or at least my reality), once religion has flowered, then its meaning has truly been fufilled.
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The beauty of a rose distracts us from its thorns.
But you aren't always hurt by the thorns. The thorns don't always cause trouble.
But they are there, and are something which individuals must independently avoid In the search for truth; if there is truth...
but with everything there is a risk of being hurt...searching for the truth or not.
in essence, everything has thorns, you just might not be able to see them
Everything has thorns because humankind made it that way. A rose has thorns because the prickly appendages are part of its biology, Roses evolved independent of us.
My greatest concern is that: "everything has thorns"- we are responsible for that.
Why not create a thornless rose(figurative)?
it would take away the excitment and the risk of life if there were no thorns.
if everything was perfect, we would live in such a boring world. the thorns add spice.
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