i got this link from a blog saying its a sri lankan rock band
http://tinyurl.com/235gm
and to my surprise i was taken somewhere else!!! i mean i got the shock of my life!!!! can someone pls pls explain this coz i want to knw... im a Buddhist and slightly understands other religions where i don't believe in spirits and gods and if u can be a good human being, life will not eat u up...
my so called "religion" is very simple and i like it..iv got to knw abt other religions through my friends, u knw the main ones.... and i think they are all good till it hits the whole spiritual part....nevertheless i truly respect them coz all they say is to do good... what i don't understand is why ppl cant realize the simple good and bad in life and if u just think in a human aspect without getting religion involved....
although iv been introduced to Buddhism by my mother (my father is a roman catholic :- grandpa wanted Buddhist grandkids or no marrage! hehe... hence im a Buddhist) i only took wats seems to be real, practical in day to day life..... i still dnt believe in some stuff that "they" say lord Buddha did or said, coz it dsnt suite a good leader..well dats my opinion... anyways...
wat i wanted to say was that i would tell ppl dat im a bhudist becoz i represent the sociaty that respects lord buddha... not coz i think its a religion and if i dont do my retuals ill be dammed..... and the fact that i respect lord buddha more than any other religios leader...
see ....ppl become knwn to others only if they stand out ..or else no one knws if u existed or not.... singers, actors,presidents,inventors, and i guess the highest respect u can gain is GOD.... when you capture so many hearts and ur loved and respected by so many individuals... that ur greater than a president, inventor or u knw basically a person who can do good, not to few but to billions of ppl across the world you simply become a GOD!
i like my theory coz thats more down to earth than wat priests or monks or wat other ppl try to explain to me.... coz i have no idea where i came from and where ill go when i die....iv been born to a family and given abt 65+ years (i just guessed the avg human lifetime ...) to live. there are ups and downs (so iv learned) and just make the best out of it........ and well thats abt it....im sure thats wat all these icon figures like GODs Angels, Saints and all good leaders wanted us to see....
if ppl fuckin stick to a simple solution and waste their time to make life better, i think thats more important than praying till you fuckin go out of ur mind....
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Hold on, your Dad is a Roman Catholic and you turned out to be Buddhist? Holy hell, has the world been hit by an asteroid? LOL. Usually if Buddhists marry Christians they either convert to Christianity or their kids are brought up as Christians. With a lot of Buddhist-Christian couples that I know, the Christian partner aggressively forces the religion onto the marriage and the children, not even allowing them to go to the temple or simply read a book on Buddhism. To top it all off they give their kids biblical names like James, or Joseph or Joshua, or Maria without letting it be a neutral name, let alone a Sinhalese name. That\'s my experience anyhow. It is a shame how people are so hardcore about a religion that was shoved down the throats of Sri Lankans when people with brown skins like us came up with lovely religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.
tx for sharing the link and ur thoughts on religion and life. have u heard of a.l de silva? he was a sinhala christian who converted to buddhism and wrote a book that has now become quite famous among western buddhists. really good read if ur interested in religion.
from his intro:
"The purpose of this book is threefold. Firstly it aims to critically examine Christianity and thereby highlight the logical, philosophical and ethical problems in Christian dogma. In doing this I hope to be able to provide Buddhists with facts which they can use when Christians attempt to evangelize them. This book should make such encounters more fair, and hopefully also make it more likely that Buddhists will remain Buddhists. As it is, many Buddhists know little of their own religion and nothing about Christianity - which makes it difficult for them to answer the questions Christians ask or to rebut the claims they make.
The second aim of this book is to help any Christians who might read it to understand why some people are not, and never will be, Christians. Hopefully, this understanding will help them to develop an acceptance of and thereby genuine friendship with Buddhists, rather than relating to them only as potential converts. In order to do this, I have raised as many difficult questions as possible and not a few home truths. If it appears sometimes that I have been hard on Christianity, I hope this will not be interpreted as being motivated by malice.
I was a Christian for many years and I still retain a fond regard, and even admiration, for some aspects of Christianity. For me, Jesus' teachings were an important step in my becoming a Buddhist and I think I am a better Buddhist as a result. However when Christians claim, as many do with such insistence, that their religion alone is true, then they must be prepared to answer doubts which others might express about their religion."
if ur interested, u can read the whole book here:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=639383
Jeshan,
About having brown skins: Jesus was middle eastern from Palestine. Abraham the father of Jews was from Iraq.
Anonymous, Jesus never existed mate:
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/
hmmm...neither did the holocaust. Maybe because Jesus was Jewish...um...anyways.
Gee...I can start a website.
good one hehe..
Sorry for off topic, but 2012 is close, is this really matter?
thanks for post.This article translate for me, my friend Marko
greetings from Camp from Thailand
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