Re: CHATter: reason &/or faith (wasRe: another new language to check out)

In a message dated 2004:07:05 12:36:44 PM, draqonfayir@JUNO.COM writes:

>On Jul 2, 2004, at 1:36 PM, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>>     2}    "Religion is for those who are afraid of hell;
>>         Spirituality is for those who have been to hell and do not
>> want to go
>> back."
>>
>I must be missing something...
>If this is something important from Narcotics Anonymous, why does it
>look like just another one of those "'religion' is a bad word - *your*
>belief system is a 'religion', but *mine* is something
>better/greater/truer" arguments that i've heard from members of a
>variety of religious traditions?
    Well, there is a difference 'tween "practising a faith" and "walking in
faith/living on faith." Religion is socio-cultural, spirituality is highly
personal and personalized - as in "experiential and individualized."
    Much like IMHO the difference 'tween morals and ethics: morals are social
boundaries or limits, ethics are personal boundaries or limits.
    Of course, there are and can be major areas of "overlaps" in both cases.


In a message dated 2004:07:05 01:21:47 PM, cinga@GMX.NET writes:

>-- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, J Y S Czhang <czhang23@A...> wrote:
>
>>     "Reason"? "Faith"? It's all monkey talk - to paraphrase a King
>Crimson song - it's _all_ Higher Primate talk... chatter-chatter...
>chatter-CHATter ...
>>             {gibber-gibber...}
>>     Oh shaddup!
>>             {gibber-gibber!}
>>     *BONK!*
>>             {OW!*%!!!}  *BAP!*
>
>>     Sorry for the above schizo "slapstick"... but as all us
>existentialist primates know, Life Itself is like a Zen slapstick: it hits
ya when
>>ya not reaaaally payin' proper attention! _And_ when ya least expect it,
>>too, like a blind-side collision... "Life is absurd..." _Sacre Yves Klein
Bleu
>>Internationale! C'est le vie..._  ::shrug-&-grin...
thumbin-nose-to-the-world & :P~~
>> ::LOL-und-Verfremdungseffekt _
>
>This is the stage where I usually ask people what they've
>been smoking if I don't know they've been through Narcotics
>Anonymous...   o_0
    LMAO!

    Enuff said, never enuff ever done (well, but when it comes to drugs tho'
: "one is too many, a 1,000 is never enuff"... scary, lah?)

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