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Hell is one of those spiritual topics i try to sweep under the conversational rug and not to think about.... but it's a pretty powerful idea, and i admit i used to be terrified of going to Hell when i was little. i guess now i see Hell as a total lack of connection to anything or anyone...

i think if you can save someone from taking their own lives, you should. if you're lucky enough to be standing in a place where they can reach out to you, and where your relationship can be something that keeps them afloat, go with it. i have this visceral, unshakable, unexplainable feeling...

i really don't know much about Zoroastrianism, but i'm truly impressed that it's still around at all. most of the books on comparative religion i read don't even give a mention! there seems to be some debate as to how influential Zoroastrianism was on later monotheistic faiths... but many of...

hajas- thank you for your beautiful post. your spiritual life exemplifies very well a favorite Hindu saying "it is better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out". welcome!

i'm currently Quaker, though my back ground is Catholic and Lutheran.

that's a really good question, dremz. it seems like as long as people have an excuse to compartmentalize and destroy one another, they will. :(

hey bluejay. Mark Rothko's work has always touched something spiritual in me, though i'm not sure why. there's something almost mandala-like about his paintings.

hey, Ron! welcome to the forums. :)

hey Brian- i do think that living a solely material existence can be a punishment in itself. if we don't work to cultivate relationships with others and work only for material self-gain, our lives will be only as meaningful as the clutter our money buys. but this does not guarentee that...

hey murphy :D i love your avatar, by the way. welcome!

"honk if you love democracy" and "it'll be a great day when our schools get all the money they need, and the milirtary has to hold a bake sale to buy missles"

hey Ami- obviously bad things do not happen only to destructive or unkind people, though i wish it were so. some of the brightest and most loving people i know have also had lives frequented the most by unrest and trauma, as opposed to peace and good luck. i'd like to believe on some level...

"sounds of silence" always makes me sit up and listen.... ....And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence...

hey Sacredstar- there's a book by Viktor Frankl called "Man's Search for Meaning" in which he gives his own definitions of nous and logos from a philisophic and psychological point of view. he also gives other definitions including the Greek. the book itself is wonderful and definately worth...

this is an old and often heard buddhist story, but it still strikes me as funny. an old monk and a young monk were travelling together when they came to a river at which a young woman was standing, afraid to cross. the young monk, mindful of his vows, turned his eyes away from the young woman...

knock, and the door shall be opened unto you- Christ

i've actually just started smoking...cloves mostly. and i'm trying to stop before it gets too serious, but it's not easy. Persona- i'm sorry your efforts to quit aren't going well. but don't give up- i encourage you to try again. from one new smoker to a veteran.

hey dauer- that's very much what i feel to be true about the 'meaning of life'. what i've always felt is that meaning must be inherent to life- it is our task to find the meaning inherent in the things we do, in our own lives and in life in general. experience must be meaningful to the...

for me, peak experience is a sudden feeling of being at home and peaceful with what i believe instead of feeling conflicted or doubtful. that could be called a mystical experience in that it comes suddenly, descens on me like a sort of grace, and doesn't last very long. but the feeling is...

hi all- many Quakers see evil as those actions or thoughts which arise when we do not listen to the spark of God within us, or when we disregard the spark of God within others. many believe that harming another being, emotionally or physically, is doing harm to God as well, and is something...