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Casual Articles - Christianity and Hinduism Explored
The world is constantly changing and every day there are new ideas to achieve Financial Freedom. We hear buzz words like entrepreneurship, dotcom, network marketing, franchises … the list goes on. Many of these ideas have created Millionaires around the world. You may have already made your first million or you may be looking around for new ideas to create your Financial Freedom, stop looking else where, I have the latest idea for you!You may have already heard of Network Marketing and Internet Marketing, but do you know what it becomes when the 2 combines? When the 2 combines, you have the world’s most powerful business system call Internet Network Marketing!What is Internet Network Marketing? In Internet Network Marketing, you sell products and services to people all over the world using the Internet. You have websites instead of storefront. You drive traffic to your website instead of you cold calling people. Using the highly successful model of Network Marketing, you build a network of people online to duplicate your system.Case Study: An online educational website An online educational based website that sells audio and video programmes of world class speakers like Jim Rohn and Brian Tracy. Instead of the usual subscription based tuition fees people would pay to access to the educational products, the online educational website uses Internet Network Marketing to build their business. When someone visits the website and decides to sign up, a few things happen.First, he must sign up under an existing member of the website. Second, he makes payment to the company online. Third, he has full access to the educati
My prejudices and disdains were overwhelming to all religions, including, at times, my own. My contempt lives on, but now in different and enlightened form. It no longer is based upon perceived inadequacies of religions I did not even fathom, nor upon apparent shortcomings in finding purpose or love or God. Such, all religions attempt and in such, all succeed. My prejudice and far deeper contempt now are toward all persons who compose the religions as such. Most, despite the immensely demanding concept of open-mindedness of the religion, fail in all regards to think outside the bounds of their own religion to search for a truth more objective than that merely appropriated by their predecessors.
It is in the ignorance of the existence of a higher truth than one’s own that all wars are waged, that all lives are lost, and that all evil prevails.
I am a Catholic. I participate in Catholic community, go to Catholic church, and respect Catholic ideals and doctrines. But Catholicism is my means, not my end. My truth is not one learned, or read in books; it is one discovered and found in life. Religion, aforementioned as such, is comprised in my belief not of contradicting, but complementing religions. Religion is one, and eternal. It is a body of knowledge, from Buddhism to Islam, from Judaism to Sikhism, from Christianity to Hinduism, in which all virtues and all truths are born. To seek therefore the truth of only one religion is to ignore that of all others and thereby disregard the complete and actual truth.
In religion, pluralism is the only term that designates unity. All religions differ, but all are the same. And in their abundant presence, they compose, as a whole, the only thing that can truly be considered a religion. That is, the totality of human existence: all thought and love, and hopes and desires, all perceptions of afterlife and governance of the present, all fears and hatred bound as one with love and trust and death. It is in this perpetual conflict and undying war that alongside past and future and chaotic present, we so slowly ebb our lives. And lest we go in vain, let knowledge rein and pride fast perish; to believe in all, and believe in One.
Works Cited
Britannica 2002 Deluxe Edition CDROM. Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc. Christianity. 1994 – 2002.
Clemmons, Nancy SNJM. Exploring the Religions of our World. Ed. Michael Amodei. United Stated of America: Ave Maria Press, Inc., 1999. 93 - 115
Jayaram, V. Hinduwebsite.com. History of Hinduism. 28 Novemb
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Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions at approximately 3 500 years old, beginning approximately 1 500 BCE. Its origins trace back to the Indus Valley region (Jayaram). “Hinduism derived richly from the Indus People, the Vedic People, from Dravidian cultures, from folk religions and also from the foreign traditions of Mesopotamia, Greece, Arabia, China and central Russia” (Jayaram). Its highest concentration is in India, and the majority of the population of India is Hindu. Followers of Hinduism, however, exist worldwide, numbering an approximate total of 800 million. Furthermore, Hindu philosophy and literature have become worldly influential even to those who do not follow the religion (White). Such is the wisdom behind them. Hindu scriptures do not come from a single book; Hinduism rather has many sacred writings, all of which have in some way contributed to its doctrines. The Vedas, the Puranas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Manu Smriti are the most important (White).
Christianity, known as such, began approximately 2 000 years ago after the death of Jesus Christ, who taught about human values of Goodness, God’s unconditional love for all humans, and His perpetual will to forgive all repenting sinners from their wrongdoings. Christianity has become the largest of world religions with over 2 billion followers. Furthermore, of all religions, Christianity spans the greatest geographic area (Britannica). Christianity has many denominations, sprouting from numerous discrepancies in the opinions and biblical interpretations of its followers. Christian doctrines are derived almost in totality from interpretations of the bible, which was written by followers of Jesus throughout a period following his death, during the formation of the Church. Still today, many separations within the church exist, but its fundamentals about right and wrong, good and evil, and necessary human love for God and each other stand steadfast.
Both Hinduism and Christianity have central beliefs in Heaven. “In Hinduism there are many and varied concepts of heaven. Worshippers of Vishnu, the Preserver, for example, believe that they will go to a heaven in which there is no suffering, fear, or death and that they will be able to live in the glory of Vishnu's eternal light” (Britannica). Christianity’s view of heaven is more uniform among its believers. It holds that heaven is a place of peace and salvation in which to dwell eternally with Jesus, the Son, God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.
The core belief of Hinduism is that humans and all living beings contain souls, which must achieve spiritual perfection. When it is achieved, the soul permanently enters a higher level of existence, called moksha. This entry is the purpose of living. Reincarnation is the rebirth of a soul into a new Earthly existence. It takes place redundantly over extraordinary numbers of years, until moksha is achieved (White). The concept of perfection, though elucidated differently in Hinduism, is similar to Christianity’s beliefs that a human soul goes to heaven after achieving subjective perfection; not true perfection, as implied in Hinduism, because such was only possible by the Christian saviour, Jesus Christ. The cyclic death and rebirth process in Christianity is a metaphoric rather than an actual one. In Hinduism, a soul is actually dead and then reborn. Whereas, in Christianity, the soul, within the same physical Earthly body goes through a series of deaths and births, so to speak, within the lifespan of that one body only. The birth and death in Christianity are caused by sin and repentance. In sinning, the soul is wounded, and a part of it dies. In repenting one’s sins, that dead part of the soul is reborn even stronger than before. Hence, the process of achieving perfection in both Hinduism and Christianity is through failure and death, and resultant rebirth, in order to try again to achieve sufficient perfection for Heaven or moksha.
In Hinduism, “the law of karma states that every action influences how the soul will be born in the next reincarnation. If a person lives a good life, the soul will be born into a higher state, perhaps into the body of a brahmin. If a person leads an evil life, the soul will be born into a lower state, perhaps into the body of a worm” (White). The conclusion, therefore, is that virtue yields reward, and evil yields penalty. This is true in Christianity as well, although endorsement of punishment throughout the years, especially after Vatican II, has somewhat ceased. In Christianity, doers of good find reward in heaven, while doers of evil do not. In both Christianity and Hinduism, blissful ends promote living for the glory of God, and doing what is, by human and divine standards, morally right. Furthermore, both religions promote similar standards of what such righteousness is, focusing of communal values, loving one’s neighbours, and in trust, obeying when asked to obey, as with parents, respected peers, and God.
The root of the motives for rituals of cleansing one’s soul, in both Christianity and Hinduism, is purification from sin and evil, in preparation for the love of God. In both religions, water is almost always used. In Christianity, there are many examples of cleansing. Baptism is a Christian sacrament involving the use of water, which is either sprinkled on the head of the recipient, or into which he or she is fully or partially submerged (Britannica). There is holy water at every entrance in Christian churches as well, to bless oneself with the love of God and be cleansed before entering or leaving the Church. In Hinduism, cleansing plays an even more prominent role in everyday life. Worshippers cleanse themselves in communal baths before entering temples to pray, and all Hindus bath several times every day to be certain they are always clean for respect of oneself and of Gods. The most prominent example of Hindu cleansing, however, is the Ganges river, a “great river of the plains of northern India [...] From time immemorial it has been the holy river of the Hindus” (Britannica). Hindu myth holds that the river was poured down from heaven, and is now a sacred body, which holds the power to wash away sins. Therefore in both religions, cleansing plays a central role, in the interest of purifying the body mind and soul, in order to find God as such and in oneself.
Hinduism’s concept of Gods as a force in everyday life has been so influential throughout its history that even many non-Hindus have come to greatly respect and admire the Gods, even though they do not worship them. Statues and paintings of many Hindu Gods, even outside of India, are dearly regarded symbols of peace and harmony for their cities, merely in their own existence. Hindu Gods are all represented in human form, save for Brahman, which has no form. Furthermore, many Hindu Gods have come to Earth themselves. Such are known as avatars: “An avatar is the incarnation of a god or goddess who has descended from the heavenly world to rid the world of evil” (Clemmons). The role of Gods in Hinduism as facets of everyday life has grown to such extent that Gods seem almost to be considered companions and friends. Many families choose a specific God, which composes many of their beliefs and desires, and pray to that God from their home. Christianity’s belief of Gods is no less prevalent, though possibly far more subtle. Christians believe in an omniscient God that permeates everyone and everything, every thought and emotion of the world, as a friend, as a guide, and as a parent – to love and to guide, to hold and console, and to raise those who have fallen in life that they may live and love again. This was exemplified with Jesus’ descent to Earth, to be with the men and women of sin that God created, to teach them and to show them how to love. Every Christian mass closes with a reminder that God lives within everyone and this, in subtle truth, is the most primal Christian doctrine.
Religions are complex bodies of contradiction, disagreement and often fallacy, bringing about hatred and indignant pride. Such is the result of the faiths and dogmas, with elusive stories to convey a specific point and elucidate a specific goal to its followers, resulting in casting out and ignoring those who are not official integrated, e.g. by baptism, and those who do not follow or believe in the mere stories, regardless of their belief in the ends they serve to convey.
What is overlooked by all persons of all religions is that in ignorance and closed-mindedness, the doctrines have been lost in obsessions and preoccupations with the stories that serve to convey them. Hinduism and Christianity, two religions so distant in times and places, and means of understanding the world, are yet identical in their teachings at their core. All religions teach the same thing. “All religions,” in Mahatma Ghandi’s most brilliant words, “are true.”
The greatest argument against all religions is their hypocritical arrogance. They proclaim God to be all-powerful and all-knowing. But they then assume the very role they state that only God can play. The humans in charge of the Catholic faith (i.e. pope and clergy) for instance, imply to know sinner from saint, and almost decide who goes to heaven, and whom to hell. They condemn persons for their sins, and give penances therefor. And they do not let non-believers of the religion into the church, even for sacraments of marriage, despite that all people are children of God, and all are supposedly equal. Perhaps some are just more equal than others.
My prejudices and disdains were overwhelming to all religions, including, at times, my own. My contempt lives on, but now in different and enlightened form. It no longer is based upon perceived inadequacies of religions I did not even fathom, nor upon apparent shortcomings in finding purpose or love or God. Such, all religions attempt and in such, all succeed. My prejudice and far deeper contempt now are toward all persons who compose the religions as such. Most, despite the immensely demanding concept of open-mindedness of the religion, fail in all regards to think outside the bounds of their own religion to search for a truth more objective than that merely appropriated by their predecessors.
It is in the ignorance of the existence of a higher truth than one’s own that all wars are waged, that all lives are lost, and that all evil prevails.
I am a Catholic. I participate in Catholic community, go to Catholic church, and respect Catholic ideals and doctrines. But Catholicism is my means, not my end. My truth is not one learned, or read in books; it is one discovered and found in life. Religion, aforementioned as such, is comprised in my belief not of contradicting, but complementing religions. Religion is one, and eternal. It is a body of knowledge, from Buddhism to Islam, from Judaism to Sikhism, from Christianity to Hinduism, in which all virtues and all truths are born. To seek therefore the truth of only one religion is to ignore that of all others and thereby disregard the complete and actual truth.
In religion, pluralism is the only term that designates unity. All religions differ, but all are the same. And in their abundant presence, they compose, as a whole, the only thing that can truly be considered a religion. That is, the totality of human existence: all thought and love, and hopes and desires, all perceptions of afterlife and governance of the present, all fears and hatred bound as one with love and trust and death. It is in this perpetual conflict and undying war that alongside past and future and chaotic present, we so slowly ebb our lives. And lest we go in vain, let knowledge rein and pride fast perish; to believe in all, and believe in One.
Works Cited
Britannica 2002 Deluxe Edition CDROM. Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc. Christianity. 1994 – 2002.
Clemmons, Nancy SNJM. Exploring the Religions of our World. Ed. Michael Amodei. United Stated of America: Ave Maria Press, Inc., 1999. 93 - 115
Jayaram, V. Hinduwebsite.com. History of Hinduism. 28 Novembe
Inverted interest rates? What’s that? Who cares? Even if you don’t understand what Mr. Greenspan is saying (and almost nobody does) it is important to you because it could mean you might lose you job next year or have to cut back on some of the things you want to acquire.It really is very simple, but most of the media broadcasters don’t understand it because they are reading from a script written by someone else who doesn’t understand it either. Let me take a whack at explaining it in plain language.There are two kinds of interest rates – short term and long term. The amount of interest paid has to do with the amount of time that is involved. We are talking about long term and short term bonds that pay dividends. If you lend me a thousand dollars with the agreement I will pay you back in one year you can easily understand that the risk is less than if I agree to pay you back in 20 years. The amount of risk is reflected in the rate of interest. Longer is higher and shorter is lower. Pretty simple.Now we throw the monkey wrench into the machinery. Greenspan arbitrarily sets interest rates rather than letting the market place determine them. The so-called Fed Funds rate is the short-term interest rate set by Greenspan that banks charge each other when one bank loans to another or from the Fed. The basic policy of banks is to borrow short and loan long. That means they borrow money at lower rates (5%) and loan out at higher long-term rates (6%). Unfortunately, we now have the monkey wrench that is ruining the machinery because the short-term rate is higher than the long-term rates.This effectively cuts down on the amount of money banks have to loan and means the banks must c
Both Hinduism and Christianity have central beliefs in Heaven. “In Hinduism there are many and varied concepts of heaven. Worshippers of Vishnu, the Preserver, for example, believe that they will go to a heaven in which there is no suffering, fear, or death and that they will be able to live in the glory of Vishnu's eternal light” (Britannica). Christianity’s view of heaven is more uniform among its believers. It holds that heaven is a place of peace and salvation in which to dwell eternally with Jesus, the Son, God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.
The core belief of Hinduism is that humans and all living beings contain souls, which must achieve spiritual perfection. When it is achieved, the soul permanently enters a higher level of existence, called moksha. This entry is the purpose of living. Reincarnation is the rebirth of a soul into a new Earthly existence. It takes place redundantly over extraordinary numbers of years, until moksha is achieved (White). The concept of perfection, though elucidated differently in Hinduism, is similar to Christianity’s beliefs that a human soul goes to heaven after achieving subjective perfection; not true perfection, as implied in Hinduism, because such was only possible by the Christian saviour, Jesus Christ. The cyclic death and rebirth process in Christianity is a metaphoric rather than an actual one. In Hinduism, a soul is actually dead and then reborn. Whereas, in Christianity, the soul, within the same physical Earthly body goes through a series of deaths and births, so to speak, within the lifespan of that one body only. The birth and death in Christianity are caused by sin and repentance. In sinning, the soul is wounded, and a part of it dies. In repenting one’s sins, that dead part of the soul is reborn even stronger than before. Hence, the process of achieving perfection in both Hinduism and Christianity is through failure and death, and resultant rebirth, in order to try again to achieve sufficient perfection for Heaven or moksha.
In Hinduism, “the law of karma states that every action influences how the soul will be born in the next reincarnation. If a person lives a good life, the soul will be born into a higher state, perhaps into the body of a brahmin. If a person leads an evil life, the soul will be born into a lower state, perhaps into the body of a worm” (White). The conclusion, therefore, is that virtue yields reward, and evil yields penalty. This is true in Christianity as well, although endorsement of punishment throughout the years, especially after Vatican II, has somewhat ceased. In Christianity, doers of good find reward in heaven, while doers of evil do not. In both Christianity and Hinduism, blissful ends promote living for the glory of God, and doing what is, by human and divine standards, morally right. Furthermore, both religions promote similar standards of what such righteousness is, focusing of communal values, loving one’s neighbours, and in trust, obeying when asked to obey, as with parents, respected peers, and God.
The root of the motives for rituals of cleansing one’s soul, in both Christianity and Hinduism, is purification from sin and evil, in preparation for the love of God. In both religions, water is almost always used. In Christianity, there are many examples of cleansing. Baptism is a Christian sacrament involving the use of water, which is either sprinkled on the head of the recipient, or into which he or she is fully or partially submerged (Britannica). There is holy water at every entrance in Christian churches as well, to bless oneself with the love of God and be cleansed before entering or leaving the Church. In Hinduism, cleansing plays an even more prominent role in everyday life. Worshippers cleanse themselves in communal baths before entering temples to pray, and all Hindus bath several times every day to be certain they are always clean for respect of oneself and of Gods. The most prominent example of Hindu cleansing, however, is the Ganges river, a “great river of the plains of northern India [...] From time immemorial it has been the holy river of the Hindus” (Britannica). Hindu myth holds that the river was poured down from heaven, and is now a sacred body, which holds the power to wash away sins. Therefore in both religions, cleansing plays a central role, in the interest of purifying the body mind and soul, in order to find God as such and in oneself.
Hinduism’s concept of Gods as a force in everyday life has been so influential throughout its history that even many non-Hindus have come to greatly respect and admire the Gods, even though they do not worship them. Statues and paintings of many Hindu Gods, even outside of India, are dearly regarded symbols of peace and harmony for their cities, merely in their own existence. Hindu Gods are all represented in human form, save for Brahman, which has no form. Furthermore, many Hindu Gods have come to Earth themselves. Such are known as avatars: “An avatar is the incarnation of a god or goddess who has descended from the heavenly world to rid the world of evil” (Clemmons). The role of Gods in Hinduism as facets of everyday life has grown to such extent that Gods seem almost to be considered companions and friends. Many families choose a specific God, which composes many of their beliefs and desires, and pray to that God from their home. Christianity’s belief of Gods is no less prevalent, though possibly far more subtle. Christians believe in an omniscient God that permeates everyone and everything, every thought and emotion of the world, as a friend, as a guide, and as a parent – to love and to guide, to hold and console, and to raise those who have fallen in life that they may live and love again. This was exemplified with Jesus’ descent to Earth, to be with the men and women of sin that God created, to teach them and to show them how to love. Every Christian mass closes with a reminder that God lives within everyone and this, in subtle truth, is the most primal Christian doctrine.
Religions are complex bodies of contradiction, disagreement and often fallacy, bringing about hatred and indignant pride. Such is the result of the faiths and dogmas, with elusive stories to convey a specific point and elucidate a specific goal to its followers, resulting in casting out and ignoring those who are not official integrated, e.g. by baptism, and those who do not follow or believe in the mere stories, regardless of their belief in the ends they serve to convey.
What is overlooked by all persons of all religions is that in ignorance and closed-mindedness, the doctrines have been lost in obsessions and preoccupations with the stories that serve to convey them. Hinduism and Christianity, two religions so distant in times and places, and means of understanding the world, are yet identical in their teachings at their core. All religions teach the same thing. “All religions,” in Mahatma Ghandi’s most brilliant words, “are true.”
The greatest argument against all religions is their hypocritical arrogance. They proclaim God to be all-powerful and all-knowing. But they then assume the very role they state that only God can play. The humans in charge of the Catholic faith (i.e. pope and clergy) for instance, imply to know sinner from saint, and almost decide who goes to heaven, and whom to hell. They condemn persons for their sins, and give penances therefor. And they do not let non-believers of the religion into the church, even for sacraments of marriage, despite that all people are children of God, and all are supposedly equal. Perhaps some are just more equal than others.
My prejudices and disdains were overwhelming to all religions, including, at times, my own. My contempt lives on, but now in different and enlightened form. It no longer is based upon perceived inadequacies of religions I did not even fathom, nor upon apparent shortcomings in finding purpose or love or God. Such, all religions attempt and in such, all succeed. My prejudice and far deeper contempt now are toward all persons who compose the religions as such. Most, despite the immensely demanding concept of open-mindedness of the religion, fail in all regards to think outside the bounds of their own religion to search for a truth more objective than that merely appropriated by their predecessors.
It is in the ignorance of the existence of a higher truth than one’s own that all wars are waged, that all lives are lost, and that all evil prevails.
I am a Catholic. I participate in Catholic community, go to Catholic church, and respect Catholic ideals and doctrines. But Catholicism is my means, not my end. My truth is not one learned, or read in books; it is one discovered and found in life. Religion, aforementioned as such, is comprised in my belief not of contradicting, but complementing religions. Religion is one, and eternal. It is a body of knowledge, from Buddhism to Islam, from Judaism to Sikhism, from Christianity to Hinduism, in which all virtues and all truths are born. To seek therefore the truth of only one religion is to ignore that of all others and thereby disregard the complete and actual truth.
In religion, pluralism is the only term that designates unity. All religions differ, but all are the same. And in their abundant presence, they compose, as a whole, the only thing that can truly be considered a religion. That is, the totality of human existence: all thought and love, and hopes and desires, all perceptions of afterlife and governance of the present, all fears and hatred bound as one with love and trust and death. It is in this perpetual conflict and undying war that alongside past and future and chaotic present, we so slowly ebb our lives. And lest we go in vain, let knowledge rein and pride fast perish; to believe in all, and believe in One.
Works Cited
Britannica 2002 Deluxe Edition CDROM. Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc. Christianity. 1994 – 2002.
Clemmons, Nancy SNJM. Exploring the Religions of our World. Ed. Michael Amodei. United Stated of America: Ave Maria Press, Inc., 1999. 93 - 115
Jayaram, V. Hinduwebsite.com. History of Hinduism. 28 Novemb
There are several things to consider in the quest for the perfect domain name.Remember that defined, a domain name is “a name that distinguishes your business from others on the Internet, allows Internet users to find your website quickly and easily”. Your domain name will need to be different than the other domain names out there. Do a search to get an idea of which domain names are available, and which domains are already taken (most are). Generating a unique domain name won’t be too complicated, since most generic names are already being used by other companies.In order to allow Internet users to find your website “quickly and easily”, keep the following three tips in mind. Tip 1: Keep it “short and sweet”.The shorter the site name, the easier it is for a customer to type and most importantly, remember. This also means, the easier it is for that customer to refer other customers to your site. The internet is all about speed and convenience, so choose your domain name along those same lines. Make the process of referencing, and getting to your website as painless and effortless as possible for your new customer. Tip 2: Use keywords.Choose a domain name that is best suited for Search Engines. Search Engines, such as Google, are the number one place to advertise products for your online business. Try to use the main keyword or phrase you’d like to optimize your entire site for. For example, if you specialize in selling jewelry, include the word jewelry in your domain name. If silver jewelry is all you sell, use the phrase silver jewelry. Don’t be too broad and at the same time, if you have a wide-ranging product base, don’t be too specific. will be born into a higher state, perhaps into the body of a brahmin. If a person leads an evil life, the soul will be born into a lower state, perhaps into the body of a worm” (White). The conclusion, therefore, is that virtue yields reward, and evil yields penalty. This is true in Christianity as well, although endorsement of punishment throughout the years, especially after Vatican II, has somewhat ceased. In Christianity, doers of good find reward in heaven, while doers of evil do not. In both Christianity and Hinduism, blissful ends promote living for the glory of God, and doing what is, by human and divine standards, morally right. Furthermore, both religions promote similar standards of what such righteousness is, focusing of communal values, loving one’s neighbours, and in trust, obeying when asked to obey, as with parents, respected peers, and God.
The root of the motives for rituals of cleansing one’s soul, in both Christianity and Hinduism, is purification from sin and evil, in preparation for the love of God. In both religions, water is almost always used. In Christianity, there are many examples of cleansing. Baptism is a Christian sacrament involving the use of water, which is either sprinkled on the head of the recipient, or into which he or she is fully or partially submerged (Britannica). There is holy water at every entrance in Christian churches as well, to bless oneself with the love of God and be cleansed before entering or leaving the Church. In Hinduism, cleansing plays an even more prominent role in everyday life. Worshippers cleanse themselves in communal baths before entering temples to pray, and all Hindus bath several times every day to be certain they are always clean for respect of oneself and of Gods. The most prominent example of Hindu cleansing, however, is the Ganges river, a “great river of the plains of northern India [...] From time immemorial it has been the holy river of the Hindus” (Britannica). Hindu myth holds that the river was poured down from heaven, and is now a sacred body, which holds the power to wash away sins. Therefore in both religions, cleansing plays a central role, in the interest of purifying the body mind and soul, in order to find God as such and in oneself.
Hinduism’s concept of Gods as a force in everyday life has been so influential throughout its history that even many non-Hindus have come to greatly respect and admire the Gods, even though they do not worship them. Statues and paintings of many Hindu Gods, even outside of India, are dearly regarded symbols of peace and harmony for their cities, merely in their own existence. Hindu Gods are all represented in human form, save for Brahman, which has no form. Furthermore, many Hindu Gods have come to Earth themselves. Such are known as avatars: “An avatar is the incarnation of a god or goddess who has descended from the heavenly world to rid the world of evil” (Clemmons). The role of Gods in Hinduism as facets of everyday life has grown to such extent that Gods seem almost to be considered companions and friends. Many families choose a specific God, which composes many of their beliefs and desires, and pray to that God from their home. Christianity’s belief of Gods is no less prevalent, though possibly far more subtle. Christians believe in an omniscient God that permeates everyone and everything, every thought and emotion of the world, as a friend, as a guide, and as a parent – to love and to guide, to hold and console, and to raise those who have fallen in life that they may live and love again. This was exemplified with Jesus’ descent to Earth, to be with the men and women of sin that God created, to teach them and to show them how to love. Every Christian mass closes with a reminder that God lives within everyone and this, in subtle truth, is the most primal Christian doctrine.
Religions are complex bodies of contradiction, disagreement and often fallacy, bringing about hatred and indignant pride. Such is the result of the faiths and dogmas, with elusive stories to convey a specific point and elucidate a specific goal to its followers, resulting in casting out and ignoring those who are not official integrated, e.g. by baptism, and those who do not follow or believe in the mere stories, regardless of their belief in the ends they serve to convey.
What is overlooked by all persons of all religions is that in ignorance and closed-mindedness, the doctrines have been lost in obsessions and preoccupations with the stories that serve to convey them. Hinduism and Christianity, two religions so distant in times and places, and means of understanding the world, are yet identical in their teachings at their core. All religions teach the same thing. “All religions,” in Mahatma Ghandi’s most brilliant words, “are true.”
The greatest argument against all religions is their hypocritical arrogance. They proclaim God to be all-powerful and all-knowing. But they then assume the very role they state that only God can play. The humans in charge of the Catholic faith (i.e. pope and clergy) for instance, imply to know sinner from saint, and almost decide who goes to heaven, and whom to hell. They condemn persons for their sins, and give penances therefor. And they do not let non-believers of the religion into the church, even for sacraments of marriage, despite that all people are children of God, and all are supposedly equal. Perhaps some are just more equal than others.
My prejudices and disdains were overwhelming to all religions, including, at times, my own. My contempt lives on, but now in different and enlightened form. It no longer is based upon perceived inadequacies of religions I did not even fathom, nor upon apparent shortcomings in finding purpose or love or God. Such, all religions attempt and in such, all succeed. My prejudice and far deeper contempt now are toward all persons who compose the religions as such. Most, despite the immensely demanding concept of open-mindedness of the religion, fail in all regards to think outside the bounds of their own religion to search for a truth more objective than that merely appropriated by their predecessors.
It is in the ignorance of the existence of a higher truth than one’s own that all wars are waged, that all lives are lost, and that all evil prevails.
I am a Catholic. I participate in Catholic community, go to Catholic church, and respect Catholic ideals and doctrines. But Catholicism is my means, not my end. My truth is not one learned, or read in books; it is one discovered and found in life. Religion, aforementioned as such, is comprised in my belief not of contradicting, but complementing religions. Religion is one, and eternal. It is a body of knowledge, from Buddhism to Islam, from Judaism to Sikhism, from Christianity to Hinduism, in which all virtues and all truths are born. To seek therefore the truth of only one religion is to ignore that of all others and thereby disregard the complete and actual truth.
In religion, pluralism is the only term that designates unity. All religions differ, but all are the same. And in their abundant presence, they compose, as a whole, the only thing that can truly be considered a religion. That is, the totality of human existence: all thought and love, and hopes and desires, all perceptions of afterlife and governance of the present, all fears and hatred bound as one with love and trust and death. It is in this perpetual conflict and undying war that alongside past and future and chaotic present, we so slowly ebb our lives. And lest we go in vain, let knowledge rein and pride fast perish; to believe in all, and believe in One.
Works Cited
Britannica 2002 Deluxe Edition CDROM. Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc. Christianity. 1994 – 2002.
Clemmons, Nancy SNJM. Exploring the Religions of our World. Ed. Michael Amodei. United Stated of America: Ave Maria Press, Inc., 1999. 93 - 115
Jayaram, V. Hinduwebsite.com. History of Hinduism. 28 Novemb
Are you fretting over whether you should start the daycare centre on your own or with a partner? To make an informed decision, you first need to understand how both business ownerships differ. Whilst both are fairly simple forms of ownership and ideal for small businesses, it has its advantages and disadvantages.Let’s start with sole proprietorship. It is a very simple model. You just walk into the company registration authority to register your daycare business. The owner and the company are not separate legal entities, which means that you and the daycare centre are considered as one entity for tax and liability purposes. The daycare centre and you are jointly responsible for all debts related to the business.As for partnerships, there are 2 different types. One is general partnership whilst the other is private limited. Like sole proprietorship, a general partnership is also very easy to set up, simply walk into the company registration authority to register your daycare business. And like in a sole proprietorship, the daycare centre and partners are not separate legal entities. Which means all the partners are responsible for any debts incurred by the daycare centre. For example, if the daycare business incurred a debt of $30,000 and the partners decided to wind up it up due to lack of capital, all the partners are liable to pay off the debt with their own personal assets, unless they choose to declare bankrupt. Unlike in a private limited partnership, the partners and daycare business are considered separate legal entities and are therefore not liable to pay off any debts with their own personal assets. However, unlike a general partnership, it is a little more complicated to set
Religions are complex bodies of contradiction, disagreement and often fallacy, bringing about hatred and indignant pride. Such is the result of the faiths and dogmas, with elusive stories to convey a specific point and elucidate a specific goal to its followers, resulting in casting out and ignoring those who are not official integrated, e.g. by baptism, and those who do not follow or believe in the mere stories, regardless of their belief in the ends they serve to convey.
What is overlooked by all persons of all religions is that in ignorance and closed-mindedness, the doctrines have been lost in obsessions and preoccupations with the stories that serve to convey them. Hinduism and Christianity, two religions so distant in times and places, and means of understanding the world, are yet identical in their teachings at their core. All religions teach the same thing. “All religions,” in Mahatma Ghandi’s most brilliant words, “are true.”
The greatest argument against all religions is their hypocritical arrogance. They proclaim God to be all-powerful and all-knowing. But they then assume the very role they state that only God can play. The humans in charge of the Catholic faith (i.e. pope and clergy) for instance, imply to know sinner from saint, and almost decide who goes to heaven, and whom to hell. They condemn persons for their sins, and give penances therefor. And they do not let non-believers of the religion into the church, even for sacraments of marriage, despite that all people are children of God, and all are supposedly equal. Perhaps some are just more equal than others.
My prejudices and disdains were overwhelming to all religions, including, at times, my own. My contempt lives on, but now in different and enlightened form. It no longer is based upon perceived inadequacies of religions I did not even fathom, nor upon apparent shortcomings in finding purpose or love or God. Such, all religions attempt and in such, all succeed. My prejudice and far deeper contempt now are toward all persons who compose the religions as such. Most, despite the immensely demanding concept of open-mindedness of the religion, fail in all regards to think outside the bounds of their own religion to search for a truth more objective than that merely appropriated by their predecessors.
It is in the ignorance of the existence of a higher truth than one’s own that all wars are waged, that all lives are lost, and that all evil prevails.
I am a Catholic. I participate in Catholic community, go to Catholic church, and respect Catholic ideals and doctrines. But Catholicism is my means, not my end. My truth is not one learned, or read in books; it is one discovered and found in life. Religion, aforementioned as such, is comprised in my belief not of contradicting, but complementing religions. Religion is one, and eternal. It is a body of knowledge, from Buddhism to Islam, from Judaism to Sikhism, from Christianity to Hinduism, in which all virtues and all truths are born. To seek therefore the truth of only one religion is to ignore that of all others and thereby disregard the complete and actual truth.
In religion, pluralism is the only term that designates unity. All religions differ, but all are the same. And in their abundant presence, they compose, as a whole, the only thing that can truly be considered a religion. That is, the totality of human existence: all thought and love, and hopes and desires, all perceptions of afterlife and governance of the present, all fears and hatred bound as one with love and trust and death. It is in this perpetual conflict and undying war that alongside past and future and chaotic present, we so slowly ebb our lives. And lest we go in vain, let knowledge rein and pride fast perish; to believe in all, and believe in One.
Works Cited
Britannica 2002 Deluxe Edition CDROM. Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc. Christianity. 1994 – 2002.
Clemmons, Nancy SNJM. Exploring the Religions of our World. Ed. Michael Amodei. United Stated of America: Ave Maria Press, Inc., 1999. 93 - 115
Jayaram, V. Hinduwebsite.com. History of Hinduism. 28 Novemb
You can recognize physical junk mail in your mailbox and quickly sort the coupons from your mortgage statement with very little effort. Bright colors, the return address, and content make it easy to do. In the same way, spam emails tend to be similar to each other in their offerings, format, and overall arrangement. Email filters were designed to do the same scanning and sorting for your inbox, leaving you out of the process. For those inundated with spam, this becomes a necessary practice to manage email in a practical way. Some people get 200-1000 or more spam emails each and every day; and sometimes more as the list of spam email addresses "gets around the net".Until 2002, most spam filters were Heuristic, or rule-based. Heuristic simply means a common sense rule or set of rules used to solve a problem. Heuristic filters look for patterns in the content of an email and match them against a database of known spam characteristics. These characteristics can be in the form of certain words, phrases, punctuation, and altered dates. What makes them different from most content based filters is that heuristic filters assign scores for each match and then tally the results to give the email a total score. If the score falls above a certain level, the filter assumes it is spam and takes action based on the rule that applies. Laws have been put in place to help combat spam, but you must first be willing to prosecute the sender. The most well known law is the Spam-can law that was recently adopted.The problem with heuristic filters is that they are, at best, an educated guess. They are used when a specific algorithm cannot be applied to formulate an answer, a common problem in the fie
My prejudices and disdains were overwhelming to all religions, including, at times, my own. My contempt lives on, but now in different and enlightened form. It no longer is based upon perceived inadequacies of religions I did not even fathom, nor upon apparent shortcomings in finding purpose or love or God. Such, all religions attempt and in such, all succeed. My prejudice and far deeper contempt now are toward all persons who compose the religions as such. Most, despite the immensely demanding concept of open-mindedness of the religion, fail in all regards to think outside the bounds of their own religion to search for a truth more objective than that merely appropriated by their predecessors.
It is in the ignorance of the existence of a higher truth than one’s own that all wars are waged, that all lives are lost, and that all evil prevails.
I am a Catholic. I participate in Catholic community, go to Catholic church, and respect Catholic ideals and doctrines. But Catholicism is my means, not my end. My truth is not one learned, or read in books; it is one discovered and found in life. Religion, aforementioned as such, is comprised in my belief not of contradicting, but complementing religions. Religion is one, and eternal. It is a body of knowledge, from Buddhism to Islam, from Judaism to Sikhism, from Christianity to Hinduism, in which all virtues and all truths are born. To seek therefore the truth of only one religion is to ignore that of all others and thereby disregard the complete and actual truth.
In religion, pluralism is the only term that designates unity. All religions differ, but all are the same. And in their abundant presence, they compose, as a whole, the only thing that can truly be considered a religion. That is, the totality of human existence: all thought and love, and hopes and desires, all perceptions of afterlife and governance of the present, all fears and hatred bound as one with love and trust and death. It is in this perpetual conflict and undying war that alongside past and future and chaotic present, we so slowly ebb our lives. And lest we go in vain, let knowledge rein and pride fast perish; to believe in all, and believe in One.
Works Cited
Britannica 2002 Deluxe Edition CDROM. Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc. Christianity. 1994 – 2002.
Clemmons, Nancy SNJM. Exploring the Religions of our World. Ed. Michael Amodei. United Stated of America: Ave Maria Press, Inc., 1999. 93 - 115
Jayaram, V. Hinduwebsite.com. History of Hinduism. 28 November, 2004. http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/h_antiquity.htm
White, Charles S. J. "Hinduism." World Book Online Reference Center. 2004. World Book, Inc. 28 Nov. 2004. http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar257300
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