A Call to Anguish

While I don't agree with all of this guy's ideas, and he's a bit fire and brimstone for my liking, he does have some good points.

People are way too shallow and self-absorbed these days, and there is indeed an addiction to entertainment, an obsession with celebrity. Ideas such as spirituality and devotion are ridiculed. Western culture is becoming more and more shallow.

I appreciate that he addresses the problem of pedophilia in the church. 

He's certainly very demonstrative, emotionally speaking.

The Immortal Soul by Camden Christadelphia

So the fellow in the video postulates that there is no immortal soul to survive death.
Fine, you might say. Thus, he is an atheist. He doesn't believe in life after death.
This is where the WTF comes in.
He is not an atheist.
He is a Christian.
He states that the idea of the immortal soul comes from Greek beliefs.
Fine, but...
If there is no immortal soul...
Then why should anyone give a rat's behind about worshiping God, Satan, Cthulhu, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or anything else?
(Although worshiping the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Cthulhu is pretty cool regardless of whether or not we have souls.)
This guy says, "the man is the soul," and "a live dog is better than a dead lion."
He is using the word "soul" in the context of "person," i.e. "Spectra is a good soul."
(Well, actually he wouldn't think I'm a good soul. I'm a heathen, Pagan blasphemer.)
But if the "soul" is the body and the consciousness all wrapped in one, and when it dies, poof, we're gone...
THEN WHO GIVES A FLYING CRAP WHETHER OR NOT WE WORSHIP THE GOD THAT THIS GUY SAYS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WORSHIPING?
What difference does it make if we are exalted or damned if we have ceased to exist?

Admissibly, I haven't listened to any of the guy's other stuff. My soul is too befuddled to even consider it at the moment.

Concepts: The Passage of Time

Six Word Saturday: Hypnos

 

I'm Never Long Enough with Hypnos

 

 

Kitaro Playlist

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There's so much anger in the world, so much hate.

Sometimes it makes it hard to be a good Buddhist, or even a good human.

Sometimes I just want to come out swinging and not stop until everybody's knocked out.

Instead, I think I'll listen to some Kitaro.

I welcome you to join me.

~Ming~

Kitaro: As the Wind Blows

Solitude for the Soul