|  eireen | Feb 27, 2007 12:56am | INTP (I 62.07%; N 78.57%; T 72.41%; P 66.67%), strongly Roman Catholic.
Weird? ;)
Religion is about choices, not about temperament... |
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Sponsor |  rumisong | Feb 27, 2007 3:43am | I think I am contending that religion is less about a set of beliefs, and more about how attached one is to those beliefs ... that is, how a belief rises in one, when it is questioned ... that may be the mother of religion in us ... and that may show in the temperaments as a strongly weighted parameter in one or another category ... Im not sure, but then - its not like I want to make a new religion out of this :) ...
the question then becomes, is the balance of temperaments a matter of choice or ... temperament? ... like the nature nurture question, or the mind body question ... one can have a set of beliefs about this, or one can investigate this with as open a mind as is possible ... unless it is ones nature, to not be open, and to hold to a belief ...
thus is the paradox of open ...
(was that a ramble? ... I think it might have been ...) |
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|  |  2249853 | Feb 27, 2007 2:47pm | i'm with you rumisong. the sufism is shining through. i would modify it just a little: "how a belief rises in one's existence." self-awareness, ability to constructively and accurately respond to questioning, and actions, are definitely part of the individual's temperment and capacity. i think it's important to mention capacity in the same breath because they go hand in hand.
i love the ideas of the sufi's, especially each individual's search for the the 100th name of god - especially that it is something that must be sought. like ghandi said, "the goal is the path."
61 - religion is about choices?!?! when did you convert to roman catholicism? i unfortunately didn't have a choice about it . . . i was indoctrinated in it from birth and when it began to become transparent to me around the age of 5 all of my attempts to get answers were soundly thwarted until the age of 8 when i ex-communicated myself. my mother however was a catholic school teacher so i wasn't allowed to change schools or entirely able to free myself from the overbearing weight of the catholic dogma until i went to university. aaarrgghh politics!! i considered myself atheist until around the age of 26 when my life experiences, introspections, and study led me to my own synthesis of meditation, gnositicism, and sufism. my church is wherever i am and there is no collection plate! ;-) |
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| | | 1270386 | Oct 8, 2007 9:34pm | | I was never religious. Throughout my childhood, I couldn't believe in something or someone that simply did not show up or be seen as existent, even if I was brought up.. religiously. I stopped going to religious services by the age of 9, when my mother got fed up with forcing me to. I'd been hit, and I still wouldn't go. Yay for stubborness. |
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|  commerican | Dec 12, 2007 7:56am | | Strong atheist. It's not so much that I outright "reject" gods or the supernatural, it's that I don't think there's any legitimate reason to even suppose there are such things. |
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| | nails58 | Dec 12, 2007 8:05am | | nominally raised catholic; now lean towards zen, believe in (a) god or rather (to differentiate from the institutional / organised religion type western 'God') a supreme energy / entity |
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|  d-monk | Dec 12, 2007 8:11am | | Raised Catholic. Evangelical Christian experience in high school. Now an Oblate of St. Benedict affiliated with Saint John's Abbey in Minnesota. |
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|  Shokushu | Jul 21, 7:07pm | Christianity poses some trouble for most of us as our tendency of taking a stance just to see how it plays out is stifled by the pressure not to actually question the religion- but there are other myths out there. It's biased and unfair for us to dismiss all religions because the locally popular one didn't rub us the right way.
But I did it anyway. I've had the idea of how a god would have to work pounded into my head too thoroughly to drop it and accept a new framework for what a god would be. |
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