New cartoon scandal brewing - danes does it again (MERGED) - Page 3

August · 10-10-06, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CB..

i consider most religions to be some sort of inteligence test...if you believe it ..you failed..if you disbelieve it..you failed..if you simply understand the need for religious thought... you passed...religious thought must evolve along with everything else..it's a big universe.... the Sun does not orbit the Earth...

I've always believed that the true concept of God is beyond our pitifiul human ability to fully comprehend. All religions are therefore little more than flawed attempts to explain the unexplainable, very simililar to the way one uses analogies and stories to explain things like right and wrong to children.

Skybird · 10-11-06, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by August

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Originally Posted by CB..

i consider most religions to be some sort of inteligence test...if you believe it ..you failed..if you disbelieve it..you failed..if you simply understand the need for religious thought... you passed...religious thought must evolve along with everything else..it's a big universe.... the Sun does not orbit the Earth...

I've always believed that the true concept of God is beyond our pitifiul human ability to fully comprehend. All religions are therefore little more than flawed attempts to explain the unexplainable, very simililar to the way one uses analogies and stories to explain things like right and wrong to children.

The One Essence that could be known,
Is not the essence of the Unknowable.

The idea that could be imagined,

Is not the image of the Eternal.
Nameless is the all-One, is inner Essence.
Known by names is the all-Many, is outer form.
Resting without desires, means to reach the invisible inside.
Acting with desires, means to stay by the limited outside.
The all-One and the all-Many are of the same origin,
Different only in appearance and in name.
What they have in common is the wonder of being.
The secret of this wonder
Is the gate to true understanding.

TaoTeKing, verse 1, translated into English by my own German translation.

Immacolata · 10-11-06, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by August

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Originally Posted by CB..

i consider most religions to be some sort of inteligence test...if you believe it ..you failed..if you disbelieve it..you failed..if you simply understand the need for religious thought... you passed...religious thought must evolve along with everything else..it's a big universe.... the Sun does not orbit the Earth...

I've always believed that the true concept of God is beyond our pitifiul human ability to fully comprehend. All religions are therefore little more than flawed attempts to explain the unexplainable, very simililar to the way one uses analogies and stories to explain things like right and wrong to children.

I lately believe that the true concept of god is in mankinds nature to conceive. It is precisely within our pitiful ability to fully comprehend. The very nature of the human cognition is to make sense of things, to order causally and logical what is neither. Therefore god and religion emerges. God is the ultimate causality that explains all, a natural and quite rational induction carried out by mankind through ages.

Skybird · 10-11-06, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Immacolata

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Originally Posted by August

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Originally Posted by CB..

i consider most religions to be some sort of inteligence test...if you believe it ..you failed..if you disbelieve it..you failed..if you simply understand the need for religious thought... you passed...religious thought must evolve along with everything else..it's a big universe.... the Sun does not orbit the Earth...

I've always believed that the true concept of God is beyond our pitifiul human ability to fully comprehend. All religions are therefore little more than flawed attempts to explain the unexplainable, very simililar to the way one uses analogies and stories to explain things like right and wrong to children.

I lately believe that the true concept of god is in mankinds nature to conceive. It is precisely within our pitiful ability to fully comprehend. The very nature of the human cognition is to make sense of things, to order causally and logical what is neither. Therefore god and religion emerges. God is the ultimate causality that explains all, a natural and quite rational induction carried out by mankind through ages.

, too. I think all three of you are right. Understanding the mysetry that we cover by the term "God" is within our reach. but possible that we need to transcend ourselves for that, must learn to "oversee" our "selfs". It is within man's reach to experience it - but possible that man has to change fundamentally his perception and awareness of "himself".

The Avon Lady · 10-16-06, 01:40 AM

Heh heh

goldorak · 10-16-06, 02:10 AM

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Quite the opposite, I hope that it blows out of proportion again - it works against sympathies for Islam, and increases the numbers of Westerners that are pissed off by Islam. It seems that such things are the only chance to revive some fighting spirit in europeans so that they realize that they are in danger again and need to fight against it.

You know Skybird if you were a politician I would vote for you.

At least on the islamic problem.

Immacolata · 10-16-06, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Heh heh

:rotfl:

The Avon Lady · 10-17-06, 06:29 AM

The Danes have done it again!

Skybird · 10-17-06, 06:52 AM

nice find!

Immacolata · 10-17-06, 10:05 AM

Heh, Ive seen those piggybanks. But not the mohammed one. I still think that baguette cartoon you found is a riot :rotfl:

10-27-06, 05:17 AM

The drawings of Mohammed printed in Jyllands-Posten newspaper were not racist, a court in Århus has decided

Two editors of Jyllands-Posten newspaper have been acquitted of racism charges stemming from its publication of 12 drawings of the prophet Mohammed in September 2005. Seven Muslim organisations had charged editor in chief Carsten Juste and culture editor Flemming Rose with racism in civil suit.
The court said the organisations had not proven that the drawings or the accompanying articles had intentionally offended Muslims.

http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=4042988/

Common sense prevails .....

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The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Heh heh __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

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The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	The Danes have done it again! __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,649 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	nice find! __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-17-06, 10:05 AM	#40
Immacolata Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 798 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Heh, Ive seen those piggybanks. But not the mohammed one. I still think that baguette cartoon you found is a riot :rotfl: __________________ "The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - W. Churchill

10-27-06, 05:17 AM	#41
Narcosis Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Mohammed cartoon newspaper acquitted The drawings of Mohammed printed in Jyllands-Posten newspaper were not racist, a court in Århus has decided Two editors of Jyllands-Posten newspaper have been acquitted of racism charges stemming from its publication of 12 drawings of the prophet Mohammed in September 2005. Seven Muslim organisations had charged editor in chief Carsten Juste and culture editor Flemming Rose with racism in civil suit. The court said the organisations had not proven that the drawings or the accompanying articles had intentionally offended Muslims. http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=4042988/ Common sense prevails .....