A former Baptist gave it to me, but a capitalist saw it on the mantle and got mad. Told him he's gonna have a heart attack if he keeps on like that, and he should go to the ashram, check out the Buddhists, 'cause they're real chill.
Cauda Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Think I sent it to recycling. >
Vicious cycle
> A baptist visited the house once, saw the statue and got mad. >
It's NOT POSSIBLE to please both the mormons, athiests, Baptists, AND the free person, all at once (maybe you need practice in what to get out - and what to put away - for whom might need to be pleased when they visit, or simply not care).
You have to choose how to live: Their way or Your way.
By the way, you didn't recycle it but rather reincarnated it.
If you recycled it, would it still be part of the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth... Maybe you did recycle it
moremany Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------ > It's NOT POSSIBLE to please both the mormons, > athiests, Baptists, AND the free person, all at > once ===============================
But you have to admit, the entirety is kind of entertaining, is it not?
If you please yourself you won't need to worry about pleasing others.
HAVE TASTE and they will get it, eventually...
Be proud of who you are and how you live. They'll appreciate that.
Free Person? Person without chains, who thinks as they please, and isn't concerned with those around them or what they think.
Free person - Lifehack
"A free person will ignore negative judgement from others because they know what's best for themselves. They also avoid handing too much power over to people with overbearing and forceful personalities. Free people don't give in to peer pressure and meaningless obligations that don't benefit them."
Though a mormon, Christian, fanatic, judgmental person, etc., might have an ulterior motive, essentially, the free thinker isn't concerned with things but as they are (to them anyway), and is therefore more accepting, understanding, honoring (depending on experience, outlook, background, etc.).
A free person thinks for themself. That's what a free person once told me, as I'm once telling you, as I'm telling myself. You can never tell.
I have lost track of how many Buddha's I have around the house and garden. I have one under the Bonsai Tree, one under two different Japanese Maples, and a big Buddha head my Sister gave me for a wedding present under my favorite Fir Tree and I'm sure there are a few others around here enjoying the shade of trees. I also have a Ganesh by our front door, because my Jewish Atheist wife loves elephants.
I bought a duded-up cowboy statue in a thrift store, about 12 inches high, with guns in both holsters. He watches over me day and night, for free (other than what I paid for him).
So far, I've had no one attempt to rob me in my home.
Going back a long time, I was in a liberal Islamic country with other religious traditions as well. The place is known for beautiful statuary and other art, much of it religious, and I did partake.
When I returned to my family home and displayed the statues, more than one person asked if they were idols. I answered, "no, they are gods."
The usual response was wide eyes and a Cletus-like slackening of the jaw, to which: "You just can't buy good Gods in the West anymore. . ."
I own many "statues" that others would would call "idols" because of their religious significance to some people. There's a difference between the two.
"As nouns the difference between idol and statue is that idol is a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power while statue is a three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting."
Roy G Biv Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I own many "statues" that others would would call > "idols" because of their religious significance to > some people. There's a difference between the > two. > > "As nouns the difference between idol and statue > is that idol is a graven image or representation > of anything that is revered, or believed to convey > spiritual power while statue is a > three-dimensional work of art, usually > representing a person or animal, usually created > by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting." > > One persons statue is another persons idol.
I had difficulty coming up with the right words, but you expressed this very well.
You are spot on. For me it was just a statue but the baptist saw another meaning in its place. Probably he saw some kind of spiritual warfare going on. Idolatry moving into christian homes. A classmate of mine hade a statue of Virgin Mary. He was a Roman Catholic. Back then I just thought it had something to do with Christianity. Today I would think that it has to do with Roman Catholicism and not Jesus Christs church. So frames of references do make a difference.
You see, this post belies your contention that you are Swedish. You usually employ faulty grammar and a limited vocabulary and yet sometimes you slip into relatively natural American-ish prose.
And what intermediate student of English can accurately use an idiom like "spot on?" But you've done this before in even clearer fashion, like when you were discussing COVID and wrote that we "are getting our clocks cleaned." Sorry, but that facility with slang isn't compatible with your claim to be a Swede not well versed in the English language.
And here with my emphasis on the word "would". . .
> Back then I just thought it > had something to do with Christianity. Today I > WOULD think that it has to do with Roman > Catholicism and not Jesus Christs church.
In the second sentence you switch to the subjunctive in order to imply conditionality. That is a high-level pattern, something one learns either natively or after many years of studying a language. I think the former is the case with you.
Posers as posters have proliferated here in the absence of trolls. We get Jesus, conspiracies, religious politics, favorite philosophies couched as topics from links of other people's thoughts spun with a zealous fever for favored thoughts.
Add getting right with everyone's post Mormon agenda to just attempts by believers to save the former believers.
But it is interesting. Not the troll teardowns/takedowns of the past but much more persistent and protracted.
No poser. Do not distract from the process with some kind of intrigue. I am here on the board because of Strickers book posted on the front page. I am testing stuff to learn about religious things, especially thinking patterns. Batesons theories about double binding is a school I am very interested about. I am swedish, autist, with a focus to develop an academic career in humanities. One piece on the way is to nail some characteristics of christianity. My theory of mind is not good and I have been causing some problem here with ”evangelizing”. Yes and no, I am in a process. Participating in a cultural context like the antropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. The members of the board here have left a cult and I want to learn from your culture after the cult.
Posing as a foreigner, young teen or handicapped is one of the very earliest troll techniques used on the Internet. It's up there with a duo going into a forum as provocateur / straight guy.
I have a tiny statue of Athena, in the form of an owl, that I bought while visiting Greece years ago. She sits proudly on top of my jewelry box.
She reminds me of what a happy time I had while visiting that country, despite the limitations of my night-school Greek that I studied while my now-ex was in Vietnam.
Gautama Siddhartha, who found the way to enligtenment and became known as the Buddha (the Enlightened One), was a mortal man who was born, lived, and died and not god or an avatar of a god like Jesus of Nazareth.
I have a small pewter bust of VI Lenin from a stint studying Russian at Leningrad State University. Does that count? I made a paper dunce cap for it. Or, had, apparently. I haven't seen it since the last move. I guess it's in a landfill now.