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#608594 - 06/30/10 09:49 PM Which Religion Is Best?
John Lee Hookum Offline
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I like the Dalai Lama's answer to that question. Read his complete response in the following thumbs



Which Religion Is Best?

The Dalai Lama

"The best religion is the one that gets you closest to God. It's the one that make you a better person." Dalai Lama

What makes you better? "What ever makes you more compassionate, more sensible, more detached, more loving, more humanitarian, more responsible, more ethical." "The religion that will do that for you is the best religion." Dalai Lama

"I am not interested, my friend, about your religion or if you are religious or not." "What really is important to me is your behavior in front of your peers, family, work, community, and in front of the world." Remember, the Universe is the echo of our actions and our thoughts." Dalai Lama

"The action and reaction is not exclusively for physics. It is also of human relations. If I act with goodness, I will receive goodness. If i act with evil, I will get evil." "What our grandparents told us is the pure truth. You will always have what you desire for others. Being happy is not a destiny. It is ...a matter of options." Dalai lama

"Take care of your thoughts because the become words. Take care of your words because they will become actions. Take care of your actions because they will become habits. Take care of your habits because they will form your character. Take care of your character because it will form your destiny, and your destiny w...ill be your life and there is no religion higher than TRUTH." Dalai Lama
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#608629 - 07/01/10 08:31 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: John Lee Hookum]
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"Which Religion Is Best?"

Science.
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#608641 - 07/01/10 10:09 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: ]
Chuck E Offline
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Which religion is best? Mine, of course, whatever it is.
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#608655 - 07/01/10 11:53 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: ]
John Lee Hookum Offline
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Originally Posted By: stam
you mean there is more than one....?

So, if one is best are all the others worst..?

...if one is right are all the others wrong?

"If I act with goodness, I will receive goodness. If i act with evil, I will get evil." "What our grandparents told us is the pure truth. You will always have what you desire for others. Being happy is not a destiny. It is ...a matter of options." Dalai lama"

Dalai lama sounds like a smart guy...but, what does this statement have to do with religion...?

Religion is business for profit, just like law enforcement and the porn industry..don't make more of it than it is.




I posted this for those that believe their religion requires that they consider themselves better that others, and prefer to think that everyone else that believes in another religion is wrong. killing those that differ is to often a requirement for serving certain God. Seeing non believers as non human and treated as such is also a response. These are the ridiculous justifications that triggers armed conflict,( War ) time after time.

This Post was intended for the religiously insane fanatics, that would think that God needs them killing everyone not of their religion. Now that's some crazy $$$hit right there if you ask me.

I think that for those that would prefer to be religious (I'm not), the Dalai Lama's statement would go a long way in showing people how to respect one another and to be better people; as I'm told all religions attempt at doing but repeatedly fails.

Chuck, just as the Dalai Lama said in his response; yours is best ( Religion ) if it makes you the best person that you can be.



Edited by John Lee Hookum (07/02/10 01:32 PM)
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#608658 - 07/01/10 12:22 PM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: John Lee Hookum]
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I think the unspoken part of the DL's quote is that "no religion at all" is just fine, so long as you live your life in the pursuit of truth...which, ironically enough, I think is best done outside the bounds of any organized religion.

Fish on...

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#608661 - 07/01/10 12:33 PM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Todd]
John Lee Hookum Offline
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Originally Posted By: Todd
I think the unspoken part of the DL's quote is that "no religion at all" is just fine, so long as you live your life in the pursuit of truth...which, ironically enough, I think is best done outside the bounds of any organized religion.

Fish on...

Todd


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#608770 - 07/01/10 09:21 PM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: ]
John Lee Hookum Offline
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Originally Posted By: stam


Religion is business for profit, just like law enforcement and the porn industry..don't make more of it than it is.




True That!!!!
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#608771 - 07/01/10 09:32 PM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: John Lee Hookum]
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I have long been a fan of the religion of "fishing on Sunday" and doing your best to be a good human.
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#608777 - 07/01/10 10:24 PM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Dogfish]
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Originally Posted By: Dogfish
I have long been a fan of the religion of "fishing on Sunday" and doing your best to be a good human.


+10

Church is a crappy way to waste a Sunday.

You can better raise your kids by spending that time with them being productive rather than having fire & brimstone shoved down their throats by some asswipe that drives an Escalade courtesy of the collection plate.

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#608782 - 07/01/10 10:38 PM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Irie]
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Hey Man....It's cool...

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All I know is I fished pretty hard today and we didn't touch a thing.
A very chilly, cloudy, unreligeous day in Eastern Washington was had.

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#608789 - 07/01/10 11:29 PM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: seastrike]
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It all boils down to this - I'm right, everyone else is wrong, and anyone who disputes this is clearly a dumbfuck.

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Big hitter, the Lama.
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#608801 - 07/02/10 12:28 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Dan S.]
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He's a doll.
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#608815 - 07/02/10 01:12 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Dan S.]
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Long

Goonga goonga la goonga

so I got that going for me
witch is nice


Edited by Achewter (07/02/10 01:15 AM)
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#608824 - 07/02/10 08:18 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: ]
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Originally Posted By: stam
Funny how there are so many parallels between religious zealots and political zealots...

I guess a zealot is a zealot

..is a zealot.

It seems politics IS really just another religion with cults on the left and right.


So true Steve.
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#608825 - 07/02/10 08:19 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Achewter]
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Originally Posted By: Achewter
Long

Goonga goonga la goonga

so I got that going for me
witch is nice



Put the bottle down and back away slowly.
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#608827 - 07/02/10 08:32 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Achewter]
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I have a button with the saying on it, "Be the solution". I like it, and I think that coupled with, "Be the best person you can be" probably is a good start. Seems to me some of the simplest concepts are the toughest to put into consistant action.
A good start for me is realizing that I am not the center of the universe, and that many times God (whoever that is perceived to be) just doesn't need my help.
It's kind of like the word, "reality"........whose? smile
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#608843 - 07/02/10 10:21 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: ParaLeaks]
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If someone can disentangle themselves from the brainwashing of organized religion long enough, they would be able to see the true brilliance of a successful Organized Religion Business Plan:

1. Convince someone they must attend their church. Scare them into believing if they do not attend, they will not be able to get into a place after they die that the church cannot prove exists

2. Convince them that if the do not give a % of their net income to said church, they WILL go to another, horrible place for ETERNITY .... but again, the church cannot prove that place actually exists either

3. Convince them to coerce and scare others into joining their church so the income stream grows and grows even more

This is BRILLIANCE and the smartest LEGAL pyramid scheme in the world! Even smarter is how certain of these businesses convince their flock (what happens to sheep? ha ha ) they cannot use birth control, so they will crap out dozens more little lambs who will be forced by their parents to attend and put even more cash into the coffers!

It's brilliant I tell ya! wink
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#608848 - 07/02/10 10:48 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Mingo]
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+1000

And it has worked for every crackpot from David Koresh to the revival tent frauds to the TV evangelicals, to the kool aid drinkers in Guyana.


Edited by Dave Vedder (07/02/10 10:49 AM)
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#608852 - 07/02/10 10:57 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: Dan S.]
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Originally Posted By: Dan S.
Big hitter, the Lama.


there won't be any money, but on your deathbed, when you die, you will recieve total consciousness. so i got that going for me, which is nice.

i notice that the word "organized" is also placed before the word "crime" - coincidence?
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#608854 - 07/02/10 11:06 AM Re: Which Religion Is Best? [Re: ]
Mingo Offline
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Originally Posted By: stam
Damn....since you put it that way, Mingo


We should start a church...I'm tired of paying sales tax...wtf I can't think of another small to medium sized business that they don't even tax the profits.



How about the Church of the Hannibal Banks?

I forgot one key part of the brilliant business plan that is organized religion:

- They scare people into giving them money and offer a key to the gates of heaven if they do. Said church can't prove it exists, but even if it does, they DON'T OWN IT! That is even more brilliance.....selling someone a ticket on a thrill ride you cannot prove is real, but even if it is real, you don't even own it!!!!

If you sold a house you don't own, you'd go to jail. If you sell a car you don't own, you go to jail. If you sell salvation to a place you don't own and can't prove even exists......you get your own TV show, millions of dollars, a wife who glops on the makeup (or unlimited access to children you can molest and terrify at will with protection from your church) and a 10,000 square foot mansion. rofl
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