Yes, like Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, from India. You are an intelligent person, obviously. You would probably benefit tremendously from reading the books by Joseph Campbell I mentioned in my earlier post ("The Hero With a Thousand Faces", "Myths To Live By"). As I remember, perhaps not perfectly, Joseph Campbell touched on Shiva and thats how I learned Shiva destroyed worlds when it was time for them to go (every few hundred million years or so), not to be a "boogey-man" to scare the people into passive compliance with government policies and power-mad monkeys' whims. Unfortunately for us, the Human Race, many of the "religious" myths, especially western religion, are corrupted (subtitle 'hypocrasy') and are now used mainly to exploit and control people to benefit the special interest groups in power.
Well, I'm not a follower of Hindu, so I don't really believe in Shiva. I'd be careful about tying anything, including mythology, to a conspiracy theory. Mythology is an interesting study, but to use mythology to explain everything is to see everything as a nail when you have a hammer.
I do agree, however, that many religions (including the Christianity I follow) are corrupted. The misunderstanding of the nature of God, hell, and good and evil are all evidence that there's a great misunderstanding of what Christianity is and what it teaches - and I'm sure the same can be said of other religions.
How many billions of the dollars spent in Iraq are going into the pockets of those who own the companies that do all the transportation and supply of the fuel, food, water, and etc.? How many of those people (the beneficiaries of all the spending) pushed for war with massive contributions to the campaigns of politicians who could make it happen for them? How many hundreds of billions are being spent for new military equipment contracts, which is provided by corporations and companies that, on a daily basis, send their lobbyists into the capitol with fistfulls of spare change to spread around, thereby sidestepping the democratic process and taking away our voting power?
Good questions. Do you have answers?
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." --
Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
... and all those people are simply doing what they think is best, according to the mythology they believe in. Climate change is just an accurately predicted result of careless development without caring how many people die to achieve the ends. What an absolutely horrible mess. Shiva old buddy, maybe it's time to start over.
Interesting how you claim the result is accurate when we have not seen all of the results yet.
On the matter of climate change, it is my personal opinion that we do not currently have enough information to make an informed judgment. Although I do encourage we take steps to protect our environment, I also encourage that we look at the issues objectively and do what we can to gather enough data for an informed judgment.
Be careful about caring and knowing: Although the issue is currently about caring, that was not always the case.
When the industrial revolution began, most people simply didn't know about the long term results. It wasn't until fairly recently that we learned of the possibility of climate change. Therefore, I respectfully disagree that we developed without caring - while that may be the case currently, when the industrial revolution began and we did most of our development, it was a case of not knowing rather than not caring.
I'm not sure I agree. I'm leaning towards all religions are correct, actually.
Unfortunately, this is impossible, as many religions have beliefs that contradict with each other.
If the basic beliefs of a religion are love, tolerance and understanding then I would judge that religion to be valid and good.
The basic beliefs of Christianity are sin, faith, forgiveness, and redemption. Love, tolerance, and understanding are considered a result of being a Christian.
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