Jesus was a Buddhist.....

Aren't those gnostic texts?

If so then I don't nessecarily discount them. I like gnostics, and I agree with the principles of yaweh being an evil jealous god.

 

Interesting perspective. I've actually been word playing a bit here-- as well as interjecting a personal theory concerning life. Of course you're well aware of this aren't you?

Admittedly, the sphere of facts that I do not know dwarfs what I do know. The older I get, the less absolute things become... I was raised in a rather strict Christian household from 14 until I graduated. Much of what was taught seems less subject to be discarded and more to be examined and questioned. The Truth will probably turn out to be somewhere in the middle.

 

I really enjoy the times when Rat and I agree on things.

 

That's a rarity, eh?

 

You can't say eh. That's my word.

 

I don't know if it's that or if were both too stuborn for me to tell the difference. Probably the latter.

 

zeitgeistmovie.com

if you care at all about the evolution of religion, it's killer.

 

Whaty ou say about the dopamine is very true, however, think about the offset in time between the initial terror or sadness and the point at which the dopamine starts to take effect. Wouldn't that explain why most people start feeling numb during or after the crying stage? Even when something is so unbearable that it sends the victim into instant shock, doesn't that persona generally end up crying well after the fact at their loss or physical/emotional pains?

While I don't doubt what you say about being personally opposite, I'm sure it can be agreed that the average person falls into that generalization. I've never seen somebody take a couple of days for the reality of a proposal to set in before crying, yet after a loved one dies, we often cry multiple times over a longer period; thus showing that the average person feels sadness on a deeper level than happiness, no?