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Post by cowboy on Jun 30, 2005 17:06:20 GMT -5
.... seem to mirror the concepts of Hinduism many lives.... no death.. "life is - we are" be true to yourself... being true to others is the mark of a false messiah !!! you magnetise into your life what you hold in thought. learning is finding out what you already know its all illusions above all.... his repeated stress to stretch oneself to perfection, through this or if need be multiple lifetimes, his insistance that we are answersable to only ourselves, or at least NEED to be answerable to only ourselves.... all that seems to have a eerie resemblance to hinduism... your thoughts... ?
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Post by eponine1971 on Jun 30, 2005 22:01:14 GMT -5
My guess is that truth can be found in many different places. All religions resemble each other in some way. Pandora, Eve. A huge flood. Repopulating the Earth. They are in many different religions. Heck, if you read the Bible, there are two different stories in Genesis. Makes sense. It was taken from 12 different tribes. The stories were told from one generation to another in different ways. The story was different but the ending was the same. That is what matters.
The fact that his stories resemble Hinduism does not surprise me. My English teacher used to say that there are no new stories. My guess is that there are no new ideas either. Anyone who actively seeks truth is destined to find it from many different sources.
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Post by Bluebird on Jul 1, 2005 2:03:24 GMT -5
I think RB's theories bear an eerie resemblance to almost any large religion. That's why I personally feel good about it. It's like a melting pot of all good in all religions, which makes it brilliant, since all religions basically teach the same thing if you look deep enough.
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Post by cowboy on Jul 1, 2005 2:29:33 GMT -5
All religions resemble each other in some way. Pandora, Eve. A huge flood. Repopulating the Earth. not all religions. abrahamic religions resemple each other - pandora, eve, huge flood... cos they are all abrahamic... the 6 days creation concept of the Genesis is straight from the enuma elish...http://www.cresourcei.org/enumaelish.html so what does RB have in common with lets say islam? or taoism.. ? how does his concept of "many lives" fit into the jodeo-christian "linear model", whcih says we all die and thats that no more lives... just judjement day.
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Post by Thinker on Jul 1, 2005 2:50:23 GMT -5
Everyone is free to think whatever they like and I don't mean to insult anyone with stating what I am. But indeed, all religions somehow relate to eachother.
Koran - Baghavad Gita - Bible - Torah. All holy books that state parables, rules and advise to live by.
Allah - Jahweh - God - Buddha. All upper-beings that are supposed to lead the way and (have) set the example.
And then there's in many of the religions some kind of profet or disciple that guides, shows and/or preaches what the upper-being would like us to learn or be(come). Think of Jesus, Muhammed, Dalai Lama.
Or then... Maybe all religions aren't the same... Think of Jihad, Judgement Day...
It'd be interesting why a religion, which preaches peace and love, to also support and/or promote destruction and death. And/or why the followers of certain directions of religions are so firy as to capture and kill others who think differently, showing total disrespect to a commandment that occurs in every single religion: you shall not kill, love your neighbor like yourself.
No single religion is "good enough". There's flaws in any one of them.
And cowboy: in the christian bible God says (freely translated): accept me and you will sit at my table in heaven, and I will grant you eternal life. So there's no death, and one endless life, ofcourse with the condition stated. So in that way it fits in with other religions, though formulated a bit different, where you reincarnate in some way.
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Post by cowboy on Jul 1, 2005 4:33:41 GMT -5
Koran - Baghavad Gita - Bible - Torah. All holy books that state parables, rules and advise to live by. Allah - Jahweh - God - Buddha. All upper-beings that are supposed to lead the way and (have) set the example. And then there's in many of the religions some kind of profet or disciple that guides, shows and/or preaches what the upper-being would like us to learn or be(come). Think of Jesus, Muhammed, Dalai Lama. Or then... Maybe all religions aren't the same... Think of Jihad, Judgement Day... It'd be interesting why a religion, which preaches peace and love, to also support and/or promote destruction and death. And/or why the followers of certain directions of religions are so firy as to capture and kill others who think differently, showing total disrespect to a commandment that occurs in every single religion: you shall not kill, love your neighbor like yourself. No single religion is "good enough". There's flaws in any one of them. koran bible and torah are of one family. bhagwat gita is of another family they are also essentially different in thatthe first 3 has god's commandments/orders/advise to man while the BG has man adressing god. allah, yaweh, god are names of the unknown. buddha was a walking talking person, who attained wisdom. sort of a socrates, who also went on to form a religion. dalai lama is not a prophet. buddhism has none. he is the religious head of tibetan buddhists, like the pope is of tyhe catholics. jesus and muhammed are prophets tho or at least are considered to be. all religions are not the same - there are essential anf fundamental differences between them, esp between religions that belong to different families. as for killing, you will notice that for every religious carnage in the world, a secondary abrahamic religion (ie. christianity or islam) has been on one if not both sides, of almost all of them. where as all religions have flaws, the killing and sheer intolerance ("my way is the highway", the rest are not yet "saved') is 95% confined to that family of religions which sprung from a TRIBE.
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Post by Bluebird on Jul 1, 2005 7:01:02 GMT -5
I think you're both right, Thinker and cowboy. All religions are essentially the same, but all religions also have details that make them different. It's like you're looking at two objects from far away. By seeing the size and outline only you consider them identical, but when you put on glasses you notice that one is smooth, the other one ruffled etc.
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Post by cowboy on Jul 1, 2005 7:09:18 GMT -5
so how come RB resbles hinduism a lot more than for example his books resemble islam or voodoo ??
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Post by richardish on Jul 1, 2005 11:04:07 GMT -5
Perhaps it is Hinduism that resembles Richard.
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Post by Bluebird on Jul 1, 2005 11:46:56 GMT -5
why would his ideas resemble the particulars of hinduism, islam or voodoo? IMO the resemblance is on a more "ethereal" level: the "idea" of the religions in Plato's way.
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Post by cowboy on Jul 1, 2005 11:56:01 GMT -5
Perhaps it is Hinduism that resembles Richard. goes without saying....if x resembles y, then the converse is true too.... however its unlikey that rb had any influence on hinduism....the chronology precludes it.
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Post by Falion on Jul 1, 2005 13:06:21 GMT -5
In my opinion, RB's work resembles Eastern Philosophy and all that it implies.
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Post by wynsong on Jul 1, 2005 13:29:54 GMT -5
Pagism keeps floating through my brain as I read this thread.
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Post by lizanne333 on Jul 1, 2005 13:40:29 GMT -5
OMG takin' a risk, but i just can't resist. I find Richard Bach's material to be the wave upon which one can flow sometimes slow, sometimes crashing, but ultimately, always delivered to the shore. His work resembles no ism I know, but allows the individual the ability to ebb and flow according to each individual's needs, and always if the individual allows, help appears to guide the individual home. Thank-you sir! Lizanne Thompson
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Post by cowboy on Jul 1, 2005 14:15:46 GMT -5
Pagism keeps floating through my brain as I read this thread. pagism?
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