There is not much point in worrying about what a god is or will be, let’s just focus on ourselves and see if we can improve anything, if answer is yes great let’s put some efforts in that direction, if the answer is no, wonedrful, let’s just be at peace with ourselves and others to?

Aditya

It’s pteety much OK to feel envious, proud etc etc, but we should beware of acting on them, leads into a viscious circle, my experience. But such a feat, ‘feeling’ the sins but not acting on them is possible only if we remain ‘aware’.

Beutiful statement that ” only real sin is not recognising one”. We may be wrong. tomorrow, the very next moment something new may get revealed to us which changes are viewpoint drastically; but that should not prevent us from acting in the direction of ‘right’ as per our own sence of write & wrong, at the moment.

Taking the path less travelled r u ? by being here when the party is over as DEb ( no ?) once put it. not many ‘hits’ to these ‘old sins’ I think. hmmm….

Tom I seem to agree that Sins will always remain and that they remain so that ultimately they can result in wars, some of us won’t listen unless talked to violently. Like children sometiems, what in has said also rings true to me also.

Only diffrence I have is where u say we can never become perfect. if Zesus could, if buddha could then we too can, possibility is open. As for perfection, it is OK not to achgeive it, as u said imporatnt thing is to keep on working towards it, every consious moment, ultimately,. As for perfection in the eyes of others, zesus was killed by those others, so better get concerned more with ourselves, our real selves.

In, there is no need to ‘depair’ that we will always remain in Sin, benchmark, world record if u prefer, in this direction has been already set preety high by our ancestors. Zesus, Buddha. Krishna,MOhammed, so may saints, philosophers like socrates, etec tec have alreday demostrated, what is possble for them is possible for us also, if not better.

aditya

right o buddy ! let’s hope all our ‘understanding’ help us also. Hey ! did u read my ‘solutions to half the problems of the world’ it’s on the ‘wrath’ page. Love to hear what u say !
regards

Aditya

I could not agree with you more, we need to be able take a ceratin ‘pride’in our actions. But that ‘pride’ has more to do with fulfillment over a job well done, a task acomplasihed to teh best of one’s abilities, the pride in being sincere. Such pride is not a sin but it is a virtue. The pride that is considered as Sin is the one in which we start comparing with others and start looking down upon others as being not as ‘good’ as us, that is the Sinful pride which is road to hell. What so u say !

Aditya

About being humble and pride: climbing a mountain and going to the top takes effort, courage and whatever a person need. On the top we can feel one with everyone, we feel we are connected and we are grateful, we thank everyone who supported us getting there. And then we have to go down the mountain again, that’s the natural way of living. If we refuse to descend and we believe we can always stay at the top, at some point a lightning will strike us and we fall.

Hello!!

Aditya and AVC, maybe you are getting stuck in labels, what is true is that some acts we humans perform are bad, bad for ourselves!!! If you harm someone that’s bad, if you steal something, that’s bad, if you live in hate, that’s bad, those “BADs” have been labeled sins. Regardless of the name though, what’s more important is the fact that all of our actions will generate a reaction, every cause will have an effect, and so we live bound to this universal principle which governs life.

It seems to me that sinners don’t want to believe in sins because they don’t want to take responsability for their actions and their consequences. Of course not! It’s just easier to be the victims of an ever unffair life design and wrong God. The beauty of life though, is that it gives us freedom, and that also extends to them, sinners are free to believe sins don’t exist!! It will not free them from the consequences of their sins though.

Our souls are on an infinite journey of growth and evolution, some on planet earth, some in other dimentions or even different planets I dare affirm. Life would be much more harmonious and less painful on planet earth if people started understanding that us and only us are the source of the mess we live on today.

Yes, we are all sinners, now let’s rewind and go back to life-on-earth 101.

Clover

I think we can learn the word from as many angle, as many experiences as we can, but we all will have to arrive at our own indivuidual definations.

I am seeing that since last few blog episodes, and I am writing this after reading your blog on greed Paulo, u simply copy paste ( as we say in the comp lingo )others views. Dear friend this is avoiding work WE ARE HERE TO LISTEN TO YOUR CONDESATION OF ALL THESE WISDOM, MOST OF WHAT U ‘COPY-PASTE’ GO ABOVE MY HEAD,
PAULO WILL U KINDLY OBLIGE BY WRTING A BRIEF PARAGRAPH ON EACH OF THE ‘SINS’, I UNDERSTAND YOUR LANGUAGE, OR at least that is what i tend to beleive.

AVC what is the hurry, let’s hear out paulo then we will decide whether Sin is or is it a figment of THEIR imagination.
REGARDS

aditya

You asked, ‘Who on this blog has the answers?’ Well, *I* do! I have all of the answers to all of the questions of life. And, for your information, you’re going to Hell because you are a sinner. :)

I’m just joking, of course. Felt the need to lighten things up a bit. ;)

I agree, again, with you in regards to how we will never know the merits of our actions/thoughts, until we view the consequences. That is a very true statement.

And, I don’t like the word ‘sin’ either it’s too judgemental-sounding. Why don’t we stop calling it that and call it something else like – silly putty. Doesn’t silly putty just make you want to smile? :)

So, in regards to these ‘silly putty’s’ that we’re discussing. I like to think of them more as guidelines of behavior, because, as I was saying before…you must agree that inside of yourself you can tell when you’re doing something just to be a ‘prick’ or because you’re feeling loving. Can’t you? Can’t you at least admit that? Or are you too stubborn? Hee hee!

Surely stubborness must be a silly putty! Ha! :)

OK..I’ll shut up now. Just had to throw in my two cents worth again.

Have a wonderful, silly putty free day, everyone. ;)

-Crazy Lady ;)

It seems to me that religious people often have very strong opinions on right and wrong. And they quite often extend those views to apply to other people’s lives as well.

To me, this is very difficult to defend intellectually. For instance, would it have been a “bad” thing to shoot Hitler before he came into power, even if you knew nothing of his character and inentions at the time? It would probably have saved millions of lives, at least as far as we can tell in the short term perspective.

On the other hand, did the the second world war really bring nothing but evil consequences to the world?

Who among us on this blog has these answers, I would like to know.

Isn’t death necessary to the regeneration of Life and its evolution? Isn’t it in fact that very death that makes us appreciate Life?

Still, most of us cannot rid ourselves from the feeling of horror when getting close to death; the drive in us to make the most of our lives, to “do our part” as it were, seems so increadibly strong. Hence, it has been quite popular to promise eternal life to the people of the world simply by following certain rules and guidelines, regardless of circumstances.

Is money “the root of all evil”? Sure, you cannot bring it when it is time to die, but that is true for any tool in this world. Is it “bad” for multinational pharmaceutical companies and their shareholders to desire money, when the consequences include the development of new drugs that save millions of lives and mitigate even more suffering every day? I guess this will be discussed later on, but to me the problem is the same regardless of which “sin” we talk about. The merits of any thought or act will be determined by its consequences.

In my view, popular religious thought seems to focus on the “meek” side of life, hoping for the divinity’s ultimate defeat of darkness and death some glorious day in the distant future.

Maybe everything simply is as it is. Neither good nor bad. Does that make this world less divine?

On our journey towards our realization of our True Selves, we definitely need to be able to show mercy at times, but we will also face many obstacles that can teach us the value of the “good fight” and applying severity.

aditya

The pride u speak of is not the one which is forbidden, i feel. I think we r all converging on the menaing of the word from diffrent angles.

regards

aditya