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 Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:46 pm
Seanna Karasene Wow... I'm not alone in the world. It's so hard to find people like that. actually, over in China its like an entire religion. We just did this huge thing on it in social studies. Basically, it's like all living things have a soul, I think that' show the shinto shrines came about (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm only half awake, I'll get documented proof and come back later) I think it was called anism or something (or was that the worship of ancestors? sweatdrop ) I believe you're referring to Animism, first of all. And technically, ancestors weren't "worshipped", but seen as a direct link between the humans and the divine.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:29 pm
Meh... I believe what the Buddhists do. All things have a soul. Buddhist monks are so set in this belief that they will not so much as harm a fly. I read in a book once that this guy who was staying with monks killed a roach or something at the dinner table and all the monks glared at him. o.0
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:31 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:05 pm
Aninism is literally spirit veneration, a catch-all term in which Native American mysticsm can be included as well as Shintoism. It've very common all over the rest of the world; I can't think of too many examples, there are too many.
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:29 am
gigacannon Aninism is literally spirit veneration, a catch-all term in which Native American mysticsm can be included as well as Shintoism. It've very common all over the rest of the world; I can't think of too many examples, there are too many. The Australian Aboriginies venerate spirits- If I'm not mistaken, they believe that certain geological features have spirits, and were active during the dreaming time.
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:06 pm
Yes, a lot of far eastern religions are quite similar. They say that American natives moved over from the far east, which would explain why animism is so popular in both the far east and amongst traditional American natives.
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:23 am
gigacannon Yes, a lot of far eastern religions are quite similar. They say that American natives moved over from the far east, which would explain why animism is so popular in both the far east and amongst traditional American natives. I thought that they travelled across a landbridge from northern Europe to northern North America... But, I do remember studying how the Australian Aboriginies originated from the south-east Asian archipelago, but there is evidence that they have been in Australia for at least 50000 years, so their culture would have had plenty of time to develop, based on the geology of the land they lived in.
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:51 am
I alos belive in the soul..Im not sure quite what exactly I belive, but I do think theirs something...
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:08 am
Shadroth I thought that they travelled across a landbridge from northern Europe to northern North America... Nope, the ice bridge across the bearing (sp?) straight, i.e. from the very tip of russia to alaska
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:25 am
DarklingGlory Shadroth I thought that they travelled across a landbridge from northern Europe to northern North America... Nope, the ice bridge across the bearing (sp?) straight, i.e. from the very tip of russia to alaska So, essentially, they crossed through the ice on the artic circle?
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:02 am
Shadroth DarklingGlory Shadroth I thought that they travelled across a landbridge from northern Europe to northern North America... Nope, the ice bridge across the bearing (sp?) straight, i.e. from the very tip of russia to alaska So, essentially, they crossed through the ice on the artic circle? Essentially yes
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:14 pm
Faithy Meh... I believe what the Buddhists do. All things have a soul. Buddhist monks are so set in this belief that they will not so much as harm a fly. I read in a book once that this guy who was staying with monks killed a roach or something at the dinner table and all the monks glared at him. o.0 my dad who observes buddist precepts says! : that they (they being real buddist monks) would not glare at him..because they practice compassion, and would regard glaring as being as inappropriate as killing a fly! the budda said u dont have to belive in what Im saying, but listen, and try it out for yourself its really good to question things. he teaches but 2things: 1) that there is suffering 2)that there is a path, indeed many paths to deal with suffering
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:11 am
Assuming that by the word soul you are referring to something metaphysical, some sort of undetectable energy that contains you personality and/or memories, that lives on after you die. I have one main objection to believing in a soul.
The personality and memories can be altered by chemicals, or brain trauma. This says to me that there is nothing to us that is not physical. If a car crash can alter personality, what will lying in the dirt being eaten by worms do for it?
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:43 pm
Bahvanta Faithy Meh... I believe what the Buddhists do. All things have a soul. Buddhist monks are so set in this belief that they will not so much as harm a fly. I read in a book once that this guy who was staying with monks killed a roach or something at the dinner table and all the monks glared at him. o.0 my dad who observes buddist precepts says! : that they (they being real buddist monks) would not glare at him..because they practice compassion, and would regard glaring as being as inappropriate as killing a fly! the budda said u dont have to belive in what Im saying, but listen, and try it out for yourself its really good to question things. he teaches but 2things: 1) that there is suffering 2)that there is a path, indeed many paths to deal with suffering Very true. ^^ I don't really believe in a soul, but more of a mind..
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:22 am
i'm not really sure if i believe in a soul or not. i lean more towards that the soul is just an abstract idea and not something real. i'm agnostic, but i was born into a buddhist family so i'm surrounded by the idea of resurrection. i just find it really difficult to believe that life can surpass death. what's the point of death if you keep on living even in another life? it's funny because i know most people would find it hard to believe that life ends at death. *shrugs* i enjoy thinking that what i do now matters and that it wasn't practice for some other life.
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