religion
Posts about religion, skepticism, and how it fits into the scientific world.
Instability is inevitable
Suffering is a common word within Buddhism. To the Buddhist, to suffer means to endure instability and uncertainty. Buddhists learn to accept that nothing ever remains the same. Since most of us can admit there is no shortage of uncertainty going around in our lives during these pandemic times, it could be helpful and even useful to consider Buddhism. The Middle Way, or Buddhism, is not about an omniscient god or gods. It is about the teaching of a natural yet extraordinary man.
By Meadow Leight-Bell5 years ago in Futurism
What If
What if? We all have so many questions or what if's. This is is going to be my what if to you as the reader. What if you or someone you knew claims to have experienced death and lived to tell about it. But this experience didn't come from a near tragic accident. Or maybe it did. What if this experience came to a person in their dreams?
By Paul C Martineau5 years ago in Futurism
Vestal Virgins were prominent members of ancient Roman society
I first heard the term "Vestal Virgins" in the 1967 film Cassino Royale. I did not think much about it even though I have watched the movie at least 25 times and heard the character of Mata Hari's daughter (Joanne Pettit) utter these two words every time. Recently I was watching the 1932 version of The Mummy and a male character mentioned the Vestal Virgins. This time I was curious about these women so I decided to find out all I could about them. It is said that in ancient Rome, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins were priestesses of Vesta, who was the mytohological goddess of the hearth.
By Cheryl E Preston5 years ago in Futurism
Gods Listening
Now, I'm not one to push my religious beliefs on anyone, I'll leave that task for my father's oldest brother. Myself and the rest of my siblings were raised to devote Evangelical Lutherans as I'm quite positive my father's family was as well. Mom, on the other hand, was raised catholic she even went to Catholic school, when she told her parents she was marrying a Lutheran and that she was converting they said they would not be present at the wedding. Now I don't recall seeing any pictures of my grandparents Stueber at the church per se but I did see pictures of them at the reception which was held at their farm. Mom would never admit when I was growing up that she came from a higher middle class than my father's family, but, I am fairly certain she was. When my family left California and relocated back to Wisconsin we stayed with mom's parents for a short period of time. Within the first few days of my father and myself arriving, Grandpa had to show dad his latest and greatest new prized possession, his new toy a brand new John Deere combine, my ears were really good back then, I may not have been able to quite grasp what $100,000.00 in terms of money costs really was, but I knew it was a lot of money in 1970. Nowadays that cost would be closer to $600,000.00. Yikes! So, yes, they had money, my uncles used to say Grandpa, the "old man' to them probably had a shitload of money buried in the back yard behind the house.
By dees Hintz5 years ago in Futurism
