Category: religion rambles

Living aloofly in ideals is self-deceit. Often times, these ideals are only things that are convenient to “think” about. “Think” in quotations because it’s not so much thinking as it is daydreaming. Where daydreaming is letting thoughts wander in and out of the mind, and thinking is purposefully directing cognition towards things fatiguing to concentrate — read more

Mahayana Buddhism spawned many branches that all more or less emphasize tangentially similar things. A certain variant made its way to China to be known as Ch’an, which made its way to Japan to be known as Zen. Mahayana itself already pulls away from all that Gautama has created Buddhism for, that is, in spite — read more

I’ve relapsed into a little period of hedonism the past few days, not entirely, but a much stronger ratio of comforting indulging : intellectual fulfillment. At times, after too much bed rotting, my frontal lobe kicks into gear and forces me up and into a book or math problems. What I’d like to note here — read more

All the main patterns in the famous world religions are present somewhere in Hinduism. Besides the direct offshoots, like Sikhism and Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Confucianism, and Taoism too find their ideas somewhere in Hinduism. At some point, this may seem contradictory by a narrow and thus overlooked perspective. But that contradiction is present within — read more

I suppose it would be viewed as pretty depressing, the futility of it all, by most if Free Will didn’t exist in some form. Most people can acknowledge that all events have a predicate, but still in the end they still feel a sense of agency, a delusion. As such follows all the arguments for — read more

I’m slowly working through The World’s Religions, so most of the posts this summer will contain some element of it… Hinduism outlines different paths to God, a singular one, mind me and all the other people whom Hinduism was misrepresented to, of which may be better suited for some and other paths for others. The — read more

This one is a short thought, but it’s so cool seeing my entries pop up on the site that Im going to do one more before I sleep. So, excitement precedes profundity here. Anyhow, Homunculus speaks much on projection and how we’re able to learn much about ourselves through how we view the world. Afterall, — read more