I get carried away, I know.

I really should move on to more artistic and beautiful ways of expressing my views.

I was watching a Deepak Chopra video not long ago, and he basically trashed the whole biblical view, yet he did it in very loving and elegant way that actually sounded beautiful, even though his basic message was still the same - Clearly the Bible is not the verbatim word of God.

So there are elegant and beautiful ways to express this.

I just blurt it out in no uncertain terms.

I guess I really need to start refining my approach.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, but it's hard to break old habits of just blurting things out in no uncertain terms.

It's going to take some hard work on my part to try to make the shift to "elegant renouncement". I think also, over the years I have actually slipped deeper into the valley of uncouth communications. And that's truly not good. I need to start to work my way out of this rut and climb back up to a mountain of elegance.

I should start writing more songs again. I haven't been writing songs lately. I kind of fell away from that. I've been playing purely instrumental music lately.

Songwriting is good for the soul and I do miss it. It is a wonderful way to express ideas, thoughts, and even emotions.

So are poems, and I haven't written any of those in a long time either.

Yes, songs dude! I'm enjoying our time on the other thread. It's kind of like hanging out in the studio talking.

Yes, and my energy should be used for painting.

Anything else, and all this other ridiculi is pointless.

That's a beautiful painting Jeannie.

Ok, this song is fitting for this thread, being that it's entitled "Who are you?".

I actually wrote this for Jeanniebean in a RPG game we were playing some time ago. I was Leucippus Agamenom the singing bard. And Jeanniebean was playing the role of a woman who had complete amnesia and did not know who she was. Although she went by the name of Morgan.

This was her Avatar in the game at that time:




Who are You?

I feel you
Like starlight shining on my soul

You touch me
In ways that I’ve never known before

I, know you
From dreams that I’ve dreamed many lives ago

Who are you?

~

Somewhere, in your heart
You must have some feelings for me as well

I know, you know me
Don’t try to tell me that it isn’t so

Who are you?

~~~

Cherubs are flying
in search of the secrets of love divine

Demons are slaying
with dragons that spew mortal flames of time

You are, an island
adrift in the sea of eternal life

Who are you?

~


Time, can’t hide you
for time is nothing more than a mere façade

Life, can’t blind you
from the love that I hold for you deep inside

Someday, you’ll know
the feelings I have for you in my heart


I know who you are

~

Music here:
http://users.csonline.net/designer/ideas/whoryou.mp3

Think of the opera when you listen to this, it's far from a stand-alone song. The bard on stage is supposed to be singing this whilst playing a medieval citol.

There is a lot of good which comes from analysis of the Bible but in your anger and disgust at literalists, the self-righteous, proselytizers and the intolerant it seems to me that the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism and Islam are unjustly maligned
distorting your message.

There is not so much difference between Christianity, Judaism and
Islam and Buddhism philosophically and ethically as you imply
sometimes in your posts and ardent attacks on Biblical literalism.

I know you appreciate this point because I remember some of your
very earliest posts on religious topics where you argued that
the worlds religions are in many ways ethically and philosophically
very much the same. I think you were very right in some of those
early pre-historic JSH pre-Religion-at-the-bottom Topic designation.



You know. The One Got thing again. But I like to look at it that
way because it is unifying rather than divisive.

Wow Abra, the good old days!

That's a perfect song for this thread of the same title.

You're absolutely right Slow.

My extremely loathing and foaming at the mouth is actually aimed at the radical, and often unreasonable, hard-nosed religious fundamentalists who abuse the religion to spread hatred and bigotry into the world in Jesus' name.

The poor little sweet innocent Christians just get mowed down in the crossfire like so much collateral damage.

Shame on me. I need to learn how to drop "smart bombs" I guess.

Yes, I'll be the first to agree that from an abstract perspective there probably is a lot of spiritual truth sprinkled throughout the Bible. But only if it is simultaneously accepted that a lot of it is nonsense too.

Deepak Chopra addresses these issues quite elegantly. And I'm certain that he would frown upon my foaming-at-the-mouth mad-dog approach.

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New profile pic.

Yea, I noticed not long ago that I had fallen into the bad habit of using sarcasm to cover my frustration. I've been trying to deal with that too.

Your poetry is very creative and I'll be looking forward to seeing some more of it.

Nice painting JB.

I want to thank everyone for participating in "who are you". You could have blown me off but instead you have let me get to know you a little better.

For me at least it has made talking on these threads much easier cause I no longer feel like I'm here to prove something which is a total drag for me. I think people should talk about stuff but do their own homework and come up with what works for them.

There's a big difference on these threads from a week ago and now and you guys have made this happen. Good for you.

have a great Sunday

love & light

Wanted to give out a big "I love you" today to all of you on the religious threads.

may peace and love radiate from the pages

Oh let me add, Dragoness started a cool thread yesterday in General called "Secrets of Happy People". Take a peek if you get a chance.