Religion... Do the world a favor...
Oh god it's Sunday and I have to go to work in little under 9 hours...
The real issue here isn't work, although as I have decided to quit in the summer I just waiting around, the real issue is the couple of "born again" Christians I have to work with...
I don't know why it is, but I find religious zealots REALLY annoying. It's strange, but just knowing that a person is a believer is like a red rag to a bull. It's not that I want to make everyone believe what I believe, it's just that I cannot see how an intelligent, thinking person can just give up their own will in that way.
The closest I can get, I think, is if you found out that your friend had had the opportunity of becoming a professional footballer and hadn't gone for it just because he couldn't be bothered, and you are crap at football, but love it all the same and would give anything to have that talent. Just imagine the total frustration, announce and anger that would create within you. That's like what these peoples attitude to the world makes me feel.
Totally irrational I know...
The thing that really started it with the new person is a comment he made a few weeks ago. I am not a practicing Bhuddist, but I surpose that the teachings of Bhudda have come the closest to my value system. So this person made a comment when as couple of us where talking about Bhuddist teachings that Bhudda was "So liberal he could do anything". I asked him to expand on his theory, which he could not, and soon admitted to not having read anything to do with the teachings of Bhudda.
And I think this is where the core of my problem with these kinds of people lays, how can a person make a comment like "The Christian God is the only God and every other religion is wrong" if they haven't even read a little about what it is that an other religion is based on!! It's like claiming the world is flat because your not willing to look at a globe...
It's stupid..... If God does exist, he/she/it gave you a brain.... USE IT!! If after you have read a bit about other religions you don't like what they have to say, then fine, but do the research....
It's like buying a car and not reading any reviews or brochures.... You deserve all you get....
posted by BillyBob @ 10:38 PM
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Same here. Can't say that I have a religion but I do TRY to live by the teachings of buddha. What I find most difficult though is letting everything go. Attachment to money, appearances, loved ones is just so difficult to master. Since young, society has taught us the importance of these things. Trying to wipe a lifetime of indoctrination is no easy matter.
Been trying that one myself. I have decided to quit my job and do a bit of travelling after July, and I'm finding the whole idea of not having a job, not getting paid, not knowing what will happen REALLY scarey. The only reason is because I have been indectrinated into the idea of career, house, family and pension. Rejecting them leaves a large hole, the difficult thing is to fill it.
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