Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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Thank Dog.
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As a Buddhist and an atheist -
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True. Buddhism is not a theistic religion.
Fortunately, at meals you can stare at your plate while others pray.
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Evidently Christians don't take the bible seriously because they certainly ignore Matthew 6 --- “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly."
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magiclight,
Here is a link you might find interesting.
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching
of the Awakenedhttp://www.accesstoinsight.org/
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Funny, I stopped reciting the pledge in 5th grade for its reference to god. The hubs and I had god and obey removed from our vows as well.
In 6th grade, I got wind of a plan to pick me up from school and take me to be baptized (to satisfy the Hungarian Roman Catholic grandparents), I had ditched and was already gone by the time my mom showed up. I warned them that I was against it and would thwart every effort made. The topic never came up again, lol.
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Our national anthem used to be God Save the Queen, that was changed about 40 or so years ago to Advance Australia Fair. Not one mention of god or religion in the new anthem.
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Just when one thinks that religion couldn't get any crazier, there's this. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/28/artificial-intelligence-god-anthony-levandowski?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=01a941faf6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-01a941faf6-399905297
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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would walk to your brokenhearted spouse and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widower rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let him know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are his eyes, that those photons created within his constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind everyone of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.
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Freya, I absolutely love that.
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Lovely, and very well said, Freya. I lost a dear friend to stage 4 cancer yesterday. She was an atheist as well. I keep telling myself that her energy is not lost. It will remain here, in the universe, for all eternity. It helps.
Trish
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Freya - thanks for that post. A wonderful tribute/explanation.
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Nicely put Freya.
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I love it too. I like the idea of being energy that is released to travel out among the stars and further.
Trishyla, I'm sorry you lost your friend
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Condolences for your loss, Trishyla. We've lost so many sisters this past year. I've almost lost count
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This is for all of the sisters we have lost but continue with us.
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Thanks for posting this ananda. Love the last line.
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It is in my folder for my will. Lot's of things are in the folder, almost everything but the will.
I guess I am already getting less orderly.
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Thank you, everyone, for your kind support. It helps.
Trish
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This is so true.
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Wonderful. We are one among many.
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Oh my GOD! Lol, have you all seen this?! Just saw an infomercial for a bible verse radio basically (with handsome carrying case, lol) I find it both sad and hilarious that this product even exists.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all.!
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ananda8,
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ananda8,
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I love Opus.
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