Five Religions...

Notes of Promise as Ethos... Judaism: Thine Fate thus cast, look forward.         Become as Gods, by subduing the Earth         and all its ills. Tame Nature for there is         No Super-Nature beyond Nature's supreme intrinsic         intelligence. No personal afterlife, beyond the spacetime         of one's tiny life. Only the potential of remembrance &         posterity. (Thy Promise - This World Alone.) Christianity: Through Good might ye ascend to                       redeem/absolve thyselves of the Original         Sin of Man's Fall into Materiality via Divisive         Desire. Thy personal soul belongs to a Super-Nature.        (Thy Promise - This & Other/More/Next World(s).) Islam: Neither East nor West...lacking Reformation from an       heretofore ancient Orthodoxy...saith, Prostrate       thyself before Absolute Allah, for thine own tiny         physical existence is sinful. Thy personal soul is       Extra-Natural.(Promise - Next World) Hinduism: Maya (the Physical World), as Manifestation of                endless karmic cycle(s) of reincarnation/rebirth, is            Eternity's Illusion. Thy soul's ultimate destiny is          to achieve/realize Oneness with/as Creator of          All/Atman. Thou art already One with All despite thine          karmic [temporal/historic] stage. Thy personal/extra-          personal soul is at once Natural and Extra-Natural (Thy            Hope/Promise - This & Next World.) Buddhism: Animal Desire perpetuates the eternal cycle of human                  sufferring. Hence, Desire not. In the Great Non-Cyclic          Nothingness one's person, and all suffering, ceases          long after chaos has blended into oblivious silence of peace.          (Thy Promise - Nirvana/This & Next  World:) --Uncle Greg Written January 3rd, 2002 © on Jan 02 2002 06:33 PM PST    0 • 9