[MD] False Messiah

[Heather Perella]

Hello db,

     I am having a hard time fitting in your literal
Jesus, that was really a mythology, but somehow became
a historical person written on numerous documents from
different cultures in contact with the Middle East
region.  Why?  For one, this idea that a literal
historical person messes things up.  Buddha was a
historical person.  Southern Buddhism (Theravada)
notes a historical Buddha and concentrates not just on
what he taught, but on his life.  The northern school
(Mahayana) of Buddhism does not concentrate on the
historical life of Buddha, it focuses on the
philosophy.  
     Why do we not see this older religion behind a
country having more superpower, or even equal to or
closer to, kind of power the U.S. has from your
description?  Time doesn't have to be the factor.  I
think it is the way people have been interpreting
Christ and the literal minded way western civilization
takes on questions of what is correct or incorrect. 
Thames 'all is water' that is thought of as the
beginning of scientific inquiry.  The literalness of
science itself.  How a world without a G-d is the
right world, that is hard core solid literalism.  What
you see is what you get.  Dirt, clouds, and birds...
these are seen, and everything else needs to be tested
to see if it exists.  You can imagine, but don't let
your imagination take you too far, because you will
not be in the real world?  Isn't this the current
'what you see is only what is' - mentally?  
     Puritans put  women on trial and proved with
observation that they were witches, people saw them,
too many people as that, saw them as witches so - they
must have been witches.  Pure observation is a
downfall too, don't you think?  Lucky we have science
to show it was a mold on the wheat that gave those
females this unexplainable (other than saying they
were witches) condition of frantic behaviors.  So we
have something wrong with all of these 'things' we use
and depend upon.  So why do we use and depend upon
them, because in concert they balance each other out
and all the loose ends will still have a need to be
threaded, to tie up, and the MOQ might be the next
stitch.
     

SA  

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