http://www.womeninreligion2006.org/healthy-lifestyles-ancient-religions-buddha-aristotle-alexander-the-great Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:14:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.womeninreligion2006.org/healthy-lifestyles-ancient-religions-buddha-aristotle-alexander-the-great/comment-page-1#comment-3 noob3098 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:52:36 +0000 http://www.womeninreligion2006.org/?p=23#comment-3 dumbs down my comment all you won't but look at the wall painting at 4:20 its true that day try to paint over the african negro true color sign dumbs down my comment all you won’t but look at the wall painting at 4:20 its true that day try to paint over the african negro true color sign

]]> http://www.womeninreligion2006.org/healthy-lifestyles-ancient-religions-buddha-aristotle-alexander-the-great/comment-page-1#comment-4 meghanhappy Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:39:45 +0000 http://www.womeninreligion2006.org/?p=23#comment-4 something very interesting that i learned when studying greek mythology in my philosophy class was that the gods actually symbolized natural occurances in nature, or in every day life. each aspect of the gods contained its own merit. granted, the vast and numerous stories about them were of course untrue, but still not without lacking some significance and relation to everyday life. to me this was actually quite amazing to discover. that instead of being actual figures of worship, these gods were more symbols of certain concepts, ethics, experiences, etc. so, although religion does tend to get carried to extremes, i don't think it is without some significance, even if that significance appears to be overidden with misinterpretation and dogma. hopefully, however, people will realize that we have idolized religion too much, and missed the point of most of the concepts. hopefully religion will become less dogmatized, and will give way to spirituality, thus returning the power of truth and enlightenment into the hands of the individual. something very interesting that i learned when studying greek mythology in my philosophy class was that the gods actually symbolized natural occurances in nature, or in every day life. each aspect of the gods contained its own merit. granted, the vast and numerous stories about them were of course untrue, but still not without lacking some significance and relation to everyday life. to me this was actually quite amazing to discover. that instead of being actual figures of worship, these gods were more symbols of certain concepts, ethics, experiences, etc.
so, although religion does tend to get carried to extremes, i don't think it is without some significance, even if that significance appears to be overidden with misinterpretation and dogma.
hopefully, however, people will realize that we have idolized religion too much, and missed the point of most of the concepts.
hopefully religion will become less dogmatized, and will give way to spirituality, thus returning the power of truth and enlightenment into the hands of the individual.

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