Emmmm excuse me Cute4 ...but whats wrong with Buddism ??

You sound like Mamarita ...very much like her ...I would love to read her input on this thread...I have a feeling both of you would create a dialogue worth publishing !!!

Sacrosanct, or dare I say, things to be held in high esteem, to be revered and respected; not to be criticised or examined nor investigated; to be believed - unquestioningly, taken on faith. Thats what holy things are - sacrosanct, to be worshipped as god; I can't help but wonder, myself, should anything be holy?

Why should anything be holy? why shouldn't one question things? Is it wrong to doubt, to be doubtful of things one has no proof of? Ought one not examine? Should one take anything as a matter of faith?

The other day, we discussed the doubt of Saint Thomas at my Bible Class. The general view was that Thomas was not as blessed as those who had believed without seeking proof. I got the general opinion that it were better to believe without seeing evidence; and in fact, that looking for evidence for one's belief is damning - one would go to hell! But I wonder, and I still do, is it not one's duty to search all things diligently? How else, if one didn't, would one know that that which one holds sancrosant be worthy of such sacrosanctity?

I buda, am a doubting Thomas, or, more appropriately, a doubting buda. I check all things diligently, as my Lord and Brother advised. God forbid I use not my eye and place my talent under the bed in safe keeping awaiting the return of the master. I know if I done that, when he doth return, he will from me take it, and give to them who have doubled theirs.

Holy Things? Forgive me, The Lord will not give one's talents to others, I pray I be shown to use it myself!

U no dey tire?????

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THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ME; SO I GUESS I AM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

U MAY lOVE ME OR HATE ME BUT U CANT IGNORE ME

U no sabi read he said NIA is down....

How dat one come take concern me?

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THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ME; SO I GUESS I AM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

U MAY lOVE ME OR HATE ME BUT U CANT IGNORE ME

And I just found my faith back!
Odd when all one puts it in is a weblog, eh!

Anyway, its a good thing one can go back and ask forgiveness! Imagine, one sins, and bam! Do not pass Go! Do not collect 200! hell straight! Good thing the real world don't work that way, good thing indeed! If it did, work that way, that is, I'd be burned to cinders by now!

So, Lord, I working on it! I gonna get me some faith, even if me died trying!
amen

Good!!! atleast u no go disturb us again

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THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ME; SO I GUESS I AM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

U MAY lOVE ME OR HATE ME BUT U CANT IGNORE ME

So, I been checking, how is it that thinking, or thoughts, to use the proper lingo, getinto my head.

The other day, I'm sitting there, minding my own business. It were sunny, a rare thing in London these days, and a bee landed on my toe. I watched it, I just looked, my mind was blank, not a thought in it at all, when suddenly, Ouch! I felt pain, it hurt, it really hurt, and I felt it! I think back to that moment, and realise that I wasn't thinking, not one single thought at all!

Its a few days later, but I still feel the pain! If anything, I thinking about it, its the only thing I thinking of, its taken over my mind, that tiny little bee!

I guess theres a reason why one thinks, a bee lands on ones toe, and one thinks, or ought to think, "its a bee, it might sting me". So I decided, I gonna go on thinking.

But I still be working on how one thinks, for that eludes me completely!

NIA don go off again!

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THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ME; SO I GUESS I AM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

U MAY lOVE ME OR HATE ME BUT U CANT IGNORE ME

Yep! I discovered I am a liar, and I don't mean insiginificant fibs, but big siginificant lies, untruths of great importance, basically, I bore false witness! But let me confess in full!:
Well, I discovered, it is not true, people do read what one writes, though if anyone asked me, I can't but wonder why! People do care! They pay attention!

I mean, its true, buda spakes, but dog what nonsense doth spool forth! One minute buda has faith, the next buda don't believe! Even I must say, buda sounds like Edgar Allan Poe, after he lost it!

So, now that I do know that I spake not in a vacuum, that toots are given!I...., wonder, but all the same, I confess I lied, and I humbly apologise!

Buda did you see this

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I seen it now!

I washed them! I really did! First I used water, then I added soap! Least I say, all me got was soap in me eyes; they really burnt! I doubt if I'd be washing my eyes anymore! not with soap, dare, in the least! But do I see any better? I too wonder!

Well, lets see *sic*. I looking, I really am! I opening my eyes and I looking! I think I see, In fact I see, but whether I seeing whats really there, I do not think I can tell. I see something, in fact, many things, but whether they real or not, I myself cannot tell!

I mean, think of it! Of course I see something, its not as if I'm blind or anything, but the question is, is what I see whats really there? Or is it the case that what I think is there is what I see, and it don't really there at all, except in my most wildest imagination? I wondering!

Now, if it be case, that its really there, then I guess I see, and thats the end of that! But if what I see is not really there, if I can't tell if my eyes are working, or if what I claim I see is a figment of my imagnation, then I ask, what is really there? And how can I tell?

I guess I can ask others what they see, compare it with what I see, and if the two concur, then my eyes work! But what if the eye of the other looker is as bad as mine, and we both seeing whats not there? Would we both not be convicing ourselves that what we see, that probably ain't there, is there? Would we both not be seeing the figments of our imagination! (or the pigs in our eyes, for that matter!)

But then whats the care, you might wonder! Who actually cares if I were tripping, if I were both seeing pigs, so to say? No one really, apart from the fact that one might be deceiving oneself without knowing! And to be honest, while it isn't exactly a problem if one did, see pigs, that is, as long as one kept it to one's self, I suppose, thats the matter, whatever it may be!

But there's my dilenma, I guess! Its not as if I'm one to keep my speak, or thoughts, for that mata, to myself, as you may well have guessed! I suppose if the decieved and the deciever, are both the same person, then they both are deceiving themselves, and thats ok, nothing to do with any others!
But if it be such that in my spakeing, I do be leading me, and others - (not that there's anyone following me; and I did check, I looked behind me and saw no one! but then, with my dodgy eyes!? oh Lord save me!!!!! what do I know!?) - astray!

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but I have! Its all just a pocket of poses!
I been checking, as you might have noticed, I been checking so I don't believe whats not there; but the more I checking, the more I muddling myself up in riddles!

I been wondering what I believed; I mean what I really believed without having seen or observed evidence. And all I finding is there's lots of stuff I believe, even after having evidence that proves its not exactly so! I mean, I believing in actual untruths!

For instance, I believe human beings are good! Now, if any of you is like me, I sure you must have heard that peoples can be right bastards, and I met some in my very short time, I met some, but on checking, despite some evidence, I finding I believe there's kind peoples out there!

You know like when one meets people and they certain types of people - for instance, they brown, or tall, or theys female, or male, or doctors, or preachers, of whatnots - and you know how one reckons some peoples are like somehow. It is rather usual to stereotype, as in one does it often, I think its how we make sense of the world, we find a pigeon to hole them in! Well, I finding that all the stuff like that I believed is not necessarily so, but even worse, some stuff I never believed is exactly more so!

I been doing do what I said I would, "check everything diligently", that is, I guess I gone check every pigeon I holed, every doctor, and black man, and preacher, an etc, to confirm theys all the same way, (and that I've put them all in the right hole!) I guessed that would confirm my belief, if I were to find they all the same way, or at least, that I filed them all away properly! But just think about it, if I were to say you, yourself, was exactly like the next reader that read whats spake here, can you see how I tripping? WOuld I not be wrong to file you away in a pigeon hole?

I think I generalise, or at the least, I desire to, because it helps make sense of whats around me. But I finding the more I look the less I see, and muddled moreso the whole thing just ends getting!

I don't quite know, perhaps theres a problem with my filing system, maybe I got my holes all classified wrong! That would explain why I can't seem to find any sense in what I spaking, damn I really wish I could!

So, whats the point of seeking, when it would seem that the more I seek, the only thing I finding is really, just how much I really just don't, and can't know? Dare I say, atishoooo, atishoooo, I all fall down!

Could someone please hand me a tissue so's I can wipe my nose, please!