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RE: Why Western Society Needs Eastern Philosophy
I think there's wisdom in Christianity, I just don't really agree with the God construct personification parts, most of the Old testament... and of course all of the human manipulation that's occurred throughout the last ~2000 years. I tend to adopt that "taking inspiration from different sources approach," but in the end I suppose who we are and the type of person we are is usually pretty evident to the people that we interact with heavily throughout our lives and the labels we ascribe to ourselves are only as meaningful as we want to believe them to be. The human condition certainly seems to always win in the end.
I fully agree. I try and remain self aware and open-minded. Some of friends preach and some are Atheists. But what keeps my beliefs going isn't the magical sounding text. During a near car crash I had the cliche' "my life flashed before my eyes" moment. Each scene of my life had an associated feeling of pride or conviction/guilt. The odd part is, in the next instant I noticed the scenes were skewed to my left and was also being viewed by a huge figure standing behind me. Any-who, I'm a very logical person and can explain it away but that wouldn't feel right. If I never heard of organized religion and was raised in a cave, I'd still acknowledge that someone or something I must answer to after death. I'm glad steemit facilitates such discussions as I'm tired of Zuckerberg at FB having all my thoughts. Haha