Religion... Shhh!

[Jake_Sully]

(Road Runner @ Jul. 27 2010,05:44) Why would they do this?
Firstly any new religion has to get converts  -  you do this by denigrating the ways of the old religion.
A good way to do this is divide and conquer  -  pick on a minority and persecute it.
Persecution of homosexuals & intersex also has an upside for a growing religion
-  they don't produce children so they don't help your religion to grow.
Push them out and they are not competing with your 'good' followers for land and food.

Yes sad but true.

And its the same way for centuries. From Hitler not standing people of a certain faith to some of our board members who can't stand someone because of the color of their skin.

[jimslim]

The new religion is hero worship of celebrity and mind numbing reality TV .

Bad for the soul

[JaiDee]

Religion is hysterical, really.....buncha fairy tales made out to be something real and some people actually believe them!!

Classic line from the movie Gran Torino, when Walt gets a visit from the young priest who was watching over his wife before she died.....the priest says "why don't you like me?'' and Clint says "because you are an over-educated virgin who holds the hands of superstitious old ladies and promises them eternity''.


couldn't have said it better meself

[Steff]

Yup, a terrific line from a terrific movie!

[Road Runner]

(jimslim @ Jul. 27 2010,18:01) The new religion is hero worship of celebrity and mind numbing reality TV .

Tried reading Das Capital once  -  found it to be hard work.      

If you remember his most well know saying:-   "Religion is the opiate of the people".

I've thought for a long time that if he were around today he would have said TV instead of religion.

See the mind numbing drivel that they show in Thailand?        The UK is catching up fast!          

RR.

[Jake_Sully]

(JaiDee @ Jul. 27 2010,13:14) Religion is hysterical, really.....buncha fairy tales made out to be something real and some people actually believe them!!

  Classic line from the movie  Gran Torino,  when Walt gets a visit from the young priest who was watching over his wife before she died.....the priest says "why don't you like me?''   and Clint says  "because you are an over-educated virgin who holds the hands of superstitious old ladies and promises them eternity''.  


couldn't have said it better meself

I love that movie and that quote is a classic!

[Jake_Sully]

Actually JaiDee its funny you reminded me of a text I got from a LB not too long ago:

Here's the text.. its filipino english so you may have to translate it a bit:

Lina: the brother of my friend in pampanga died last week and he has 3 wives and he has kids to the 3 women. My friend instructed its wife that whoever has a visitor friend, the other wives should stay outside. My friend said, at least there is no fight during the wake. Saturday was the burial. When the coffin is being rolled going down, they noticed that its not leveled, so she called the attention of the workers but still continued.

Lina: All of a sudden the coffin, went upside down, the glass cover of the coffin was broken and the body goes out from the coffin and the face of the dead has all the broken glass in it

Lina: The people were screaming and ran because they thought the dead will get up

Lina: Since they have this belief that you cannot get the body again and change the coffin, they just buried it, as it is...

Jake: hehe amusing

Lina: yes, i was laughing when she told me. Instead of consolling her, i just laugh and laugh but she is really scared of his ghost.




So do you believe in ghosts?

[Road Runner]

(Jake_Sully @ Jul. 27 2010,19:22) So do you believe in ghosts?

The Roman Catholic and Protestant churches want you to......  "and the Holy Ghost"    

One reason many Thai's will not buy houses off each other is because they think they may get haunted by the ghosts of the previous owners ancestors.

Think how many Thai movies and TV soap operas feature ghosts.

When my ladyboy girlfriend said she was afraid of them I asked her how many she had seen  -  answer  0.


Let's do the healing power of crystals next.      

RR.

[JaiDee]

I was friends with Banana from Phuket long before she became an internet superstar, and long before she turned into a human sloth.  4 months after the Tsunami in 2004 we were due to go to Phi Phi for a few days but she changed her mind at the last minute; close-enough quote; "no way I am going there, the places is loaded with ghosts now''  

 No probs, I took someone else less superstitious [and who prolly needed the cash more] and in the end didn't have to deal with starfish syndrome.