Lipstick on a pig

Just a thought about religious types being just the same as everybody else. A lot of people who go to various church's are just as much a low-life as the average person but they try to act as if they are superior. Makes me think of Putting Lipstick On A Pig. This is from a incident that has happened to me recently. I think they are pathetic, thinking they are so good any holy yet they are back stabbing-gossiping-scum. 

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  • What is the religious mindset? It’s the mindset that prefers to condemn rather than inquire; to ridicule instead of to welcome; to be close-minded rather than be open-minded; to be hostile and resistant to change rather than entertain its possible merits; and ultimately it’s the mindset that is governed by fear rather than love. It’s the mindset that prefers to excuse cowardice, to wear complacency and intellectual sloth as virtues, to deflect foreign ideas by cognitive dissonance, and to doggedly cling to that which is familiar and comforting, i.e. the religious or dogmatic foundation.
  • Religious communism is a form of communism centered on religious principles. The term usually refers to a number of egalitarian and Utopian religious societies practicing the voluntary dissolution of private property, so that society's benefits are distributed according to a person's needs, and every person performs labor according to their abilities. "Religious communism" has also been used to describe the ideas of religious individuals and groups who advocate the application of communist policies on a wider scale, often joining secular communists in their struggle to abolish capitalism.


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    What is the religious mindset? It’s the mindset that prefers to inquire rather than condemn; to welcome instead of to ridicule; to be open-minded rather than be close-minded; to entertain the possible merits of change rather than be hostile and resistant to it and ultimately it’s the mindset that is governed by love rather than fear ... etc.
  • Never tolerate the intolerance of others or else intolerance will spread unchecked? 
  • Society has been too tolerant of certain things, examples are: the darker side of Islam and racism against whites; which is denied by media and government.

    I don't understand the two quotes being at odds: 
    1) What is the religious mindset? It’s the mindset that prefers to condemn rather than inquire etc
    and
    2) What is the religious mindset? It’s the mindset that prefers to inquire rather than condemn etc

    I just need to do my best to gain enough merit to be born on a more civilised planet away from the cesspit here. 

    I wish I was big in this life as a lot of people need a bloody good slapping. But then I'd not get the good merits I need I suppose.

    Thanks
  • Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either. Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.…
  • edited April 2016
    "Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. etc...." - I thought that was just pretend?

    What numpty said that? I hope it wasn't something Moses said. ;)
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    "Society has been too tolerant of certain things, examples are: the darker side of Islam and racism against whites; which is denied by media and government."

    Really? Really? Is the problem Islam? The answer is, as usual, no. The problems with Islam are, as you later verbalized, mere products of the cesspit we live in. Is Islam truly racist? How is their racism any different from Alfonso X's decrees against Muslims and Jews (marranos, marranos
    means pigs)? Muslims were slaves and didn't even have a bath day, like everyone else; they were sub-human, in Latin Christndom's eyes. That damn reconquista.

    Or what about when my mum was travelling to the U.S. for a work conference and a big fat American airport worker stopped her when she got off the plane in Denver from Calgary and asked her "what part of Mexico are you from?" And when she told her she wasn't from Mexico, she insisted and insisted and insisted. Because in her stupid mind, anything south of the American border (40 or so countries) is Mexico. Yes, we're on Iberian and Native descent, that being classified as hispanic ethnicity. And at the time, we'd never freaking set foot in Mexico. We're from Ecuador. Even if I grew up in Canada, I'm from Ecuador and look the part, yes. Ecuador is very far away from Mexico. So far away, you have no fucking clue how far away it is. Or like the time I told a composer-friend I was born in Ecuador and he asked where that was. I said "next to Colombia" and he looked sternly at me, and, jokingly even, said "you must have been a drug-dealer in a past life!"

    Humans are freaking racist. Because they thrive on a sense of community and an outsider, someone who doesn't fit into "community", such as a mousy, skinny, Latin female with large glasses and no physical appeal whatsoever, is immediately a threat to community. Because she's not freaking white.
    Same with other groups. The United States, even though I have never lived there, looks like a cesspool of racist and close-minded religious beliefs from this side of the border. You're black? Let's beat you up! Yes, your ancestors didn't ask to be here, but you're a threat to our "white community".
    What about that blind belief in the

    Roman Catholic Church in the South? God, God, God, and God. Are you really following God? Let's not forget blindly following what organized religion tells you led to incredible Anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages. And the Crusades; sure, let's protect the Byzantine Empire. Lolz, never mind, let's kill, pillage, rape, take over Jerusalem and let's do it all the name of God. Fuck Alexius Komnenos.
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    I'm sorry, but go to Ecuador. If you're white, you're treated like a God: everyone just assumes you're rich and you're immediately attractive. No education? Who cares!? You're white! Welcome to a high executive position because you're white and we all think you're so tall and beautiful.

    Everyone else is just a bit white and Incan. The completely Incan can remain scrubbing floors, getting no education and no opportunities. They're ugly, small, fat and Native looking. And the ones that are just slightly white too. The whiter looking ones, yes, let's get them better jobs and better eduacation. But that totally white person, no, they go to the top because face it, they're so pretty.

    And that's the Ecuadorian mentality for you.
  • The problem isn't religion or preference towards some cultures. It's people. People are fucking nuts, messed up in the head and totally wacko.
  • There's a lot more whites being beaten for being white that blacks for being black. Largest majority of racist attacks are committed by blacks against whites and hispanics.


  • Anti religion is more religious and dogmatic than religion - just as anti racism is ...
  • Spiritual Causes of Diseases

    Parkinson’s Disease: Fear and an intense desire to control everything and everyone.

    Billy Connolly on disease battle: You mustn't let Parkinson's take control.




  • There was genetic testing done on a relative of mine after my grandma started losing it. She's all better now, functioning as well as possible, that lovely lady.
    Anyways, my relative is sure to develop Parkinson's in later life, they have the gene. My entire family is a huge mess of control freaks, including me, pathetically enough. Obsessive compulsive tendencies run in the family and all the elders, aunts and uncles, all seem to have a tendency to need absolute control. It's not very fun.
  • Is perhaps that need to control a form of holding on to attachment? It's a defense mechanism: when you're in control, no one can hurt you. And when you're in control, you're so focused on having everything flow right, you totally focus yourself on the illusion rather than the truth.

    Personally, whenever anything fails I always blame myself 100% even if it's not completely my fault. If not I personally feel powerless and helpless and when you're in a situation you can't fix... If it's my fault, I'm in control and I can fix it.

    Jim'll fix it. *pukes*
  • Jim Savile; the control freak, the manipulator, the puppet master and paedophile.

    Harry Potter is such a nice boy.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l_kD5wF7NZA
  • edited April 2016
    In Breema we remind ourselves that we are not there to 'fix' anyone. Instead we are just there to offer mutual support.

    By extension, the realization occurs that the notion of trying to fix anyone, including one's self, runs counter to the principle of 'no judgement.' It is putting out that they are not fitting into your ideas, your concepts, of how things and people should be. The idea of fixing someone immediately indicates that you think that something is wrong with them and it has somehow become your job to 'fix' them.

    By who's authority though?

    As my teacher used to say, as soon as you find you are not following any one of the principles of Breema, then the chain is incomplete. Then, regardless of whether it you doing the steps that make it look like you are doing 'Breema', you are NOT really doing Breema.
  • In our quest to be 'free' of the chains that bind us...Holding on, and working with chains, is not always a bad thing?

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  • Well, safety is necessary.
    Lest we end up in the realms of insane Magick, inccubi and succubi and may the good Lord know what else.

    That's why drugs are a no-no.
  • edited April 2016
    Or is it?

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    Sometimes "fixing" things isn't fixing someone but a situation. Such as someone yelling at me and telling me I'm a bitch and a whore and thus no more speaking will ensue because their accusations are not founded upon facts. And I'm obviously angry. So I fix the situation by telling myself maybe they're right and speaking to them again and moving on. Even if I truly was not being a bitch and have never been a whore. Get my drift?

    Either way, it's the wrong approach and misses the point.
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