Quoting: Word Bearer 19394262
I was about to leave you another one of my, as you call, cretinous comments, but I know it will only result in you
trying
to belittle me again. Remember the mark of a great teacher is one that can silence naysayers and will learn as much from his students as they from him. So I leave you with a extract from a sikh religious book that I was given by a friend of that faith. It has helped me to gain a new insight in to god and I hope it helps you to.
However long and continuous one may absorb in trance still peace of mind will not be achieved.
By collecting loads of world's riches, the thirst of avarice and hunger does not quench.
A thousand million feats of wisdom, shall not accompany the self to the next world.
Some sing the virtues and excellences of god
Some sing him through philosophical intricacies
Some sing he creates beings and then reduces them to dust
Some sing that he appears distant and remote
Millions are discoursing his attributes yet there is no end
The lord himself is Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma and the goddessses Paarbati, Lakshmi and Sarswati
God is one
What in return we should offer him? How can we get a glimpse of his court?
What words should we recite to win his pleasure
One must recite his name in the early ambrosial morning and must think about his greatness.
We obtain our body as a result of good deeds but we get salvation by his grace.
I salute god, who is himself wordly wealth and whose form is divine word and he is holy, supreme beauty and ever blissful.
When did creation begin,
What was the time, the moment, the lunar day, the weekday?
What was the season and the month, when the world was created?
Had the Brahmins found the answer, they would have recorded it in their scriptures.
Nor the Quazies knew it otherwise they would have recorded in the Quraan
The Yogis also did not know the date, day, season or month
The creator alone knows the answer
Do not try to understand god, but simply praise his greatness.
A point I would like to make is the Sikh's have no name for god, he is simply god, it translate in to Waheguru meaning Teacher of teachers or great teacher. They believe all religions pray to the same god.
I know OP you will find some way to belittle or criticse, that is your way. You are convinced of your superior intellect, but even a aged wise man can learn from a child.
Hello AC and Welcome!
Firstly, I did not come into YOUR thread...you, and others came into MINE! Presumably to LEARN!
You take umbrage at my approach or methodology in communicating hard won and valuable TRUTHS...rather than embracing the opportunity to learn and evolve. Typical.
I read the religious screed you offered up for my "enlightenment", and found it quite telling:
1) I have never aspired to "silence" naysayers! Do you know what a naysayer is?
noun
a person who habitually expresses negative or pessimistic views:
Despite a general feeling that things were going well, a few naysayers tried to cast gloom.
So, by definition a NAYSAYER is a PESSIMIST who, generally speaking, disregards TRUTH and CIRCUMSTANCES in favor of generating NEGATIVE ENERGY to others! Energy vampires, if you will!
I have no such interest in those humans! They have no capacity or desire to learn!
2) I understand the CONCEPT of learning from ones students, but it is an absurdity on its face. The TEACHER offers experience and KNOWLEDGE the student lacks. Again, by definition. Using the Socratic methodology, the TEACHER learns the students deficiencies and tailors the lesson accordingly. If one were to engage a teacher who "learned" from the "student", I would posit the teacher is incompetent.
Similarly, if the student WERE able to teach the TEACHER, the student has been mislabeled! There have been a few examples of this throughout history, but few enough that I can safely disregard the likelihood of that being the case here!
PARTICULARLY since most of the posters are barely able to communicate a coherent thought, and lack the basic skills of spelling, correct grammar and syntax.
Seriously!
Moving on to the "meat" of your offering!
In general, the writing is RUBBISH! Stupid, and without basis!
Just for clarification:
stu·pid   [stoo-pid, styoo‐] Show IPA adjective, stu·pid·er, stu·pid·est, noun
adjective
1.
lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
2.
characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question.
3.
tediously dull, especially due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party.
4.
annoying or irritating; troublesome: Turn off that stupid radio.
5.
in a state of stupor; stupefied: stupid from fatigue.
Knowing you take exception to my choice of words, here are some others. Fell free to cut and paste one that best resonates with you and offers the least offence!
not intelligent; irresponsible
Synonyms: brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, dumb, dummy*, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, laughable, loser*, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, out to lunch, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, shortsighted, simple, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thick-headed, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking, witless
Specifically, aside from the fact that there is little substance in the assertions made, no concrete facts presented, or any obvious attempt by you to validate what is presented as FACT, has the writer, for example, actually accumulated ALL THE WEALTH IN THE WORLD to know what such wealth brings?
Has he or she transitioned into the next world to know "what can or cannot be brought"? The Egyptians would not agree with such thoughts!
Laughing out loud!
The rest is similarly brainless drivel without merit or substantiation! And yet, you proffer it as FACT!
How can you do so and expect any credibility!
This does not even rise to the level of BEAUTIFUL LIE, as the writing is uninspired and banal.
Poor deluded, knuckle-dragging primate!
Laughing out Loud!