A question for a friend.

sounds like a plain old bellief to me. every one has beliefs. and no one's beliefs are more powerful or valid than anyone else's/

except someone is probably right.

since no one knows who is right. we can only assume all beleifs could be valid.

it is up to each person to try to peruse what is the right course.

don't worry about the name of a religion, just try to follow what you think is the right course--not based on anything but what is right, not what you want or need.

that is hard for anyone to do.but we can all try.

TEll your cousin if he should ever establish his own religion and were to turn it in to an occult. I would be more than happy to rent out some farming property with a country house as a location so all the followers can live there and make Jelly!

Sounds an awful lot like they've just added reincarnation to Taosim and the quotes you listed all could easily fit within Taoist concepts.

Re: A question for a friend.
Here are some quotes from the Tao Te Jing which speak to at least part of your cousin's ideas.



from the Tao Te Jing - 1
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.



from the TTJ - 5
The Tao doesn't take sides;
it gives birth to both good and evil.
The Master doesn't take sides;
she welcomes both saints and sinners.

from the TTJ - 8
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.



from the TTJ - 2
Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.

I LOVE JELLO
Bill Cosby always talkin about the hippet hoppety and the rap music and the wife...

Oh yes.. um.. I think he was getting the quotes out of a book he recently acquired about Eastern philosophies.

It's mostly Taoism, with a few Buddhist accents and something involoving jello.

watch out jimmy jone's are all over the place. i think pat robinson is going to start a cult

if he shows up do NOT. is say do NOT rent to his bunch.

You cannot be angry at jello. Think about this . Maybe there is something here that we can use.


JELLLL_LLLO

hellomelloyellowjellofellow;

un unusual name for a religion but.........

NNY; could i ask why your cousin (sure your cousin, eh, right!)
:wink: want his/her philosophy of life 2b referred 2 as a religion?
religions are born upon rationalizing supernatural assumptions about the 'unknown'.
unless s/he wishes 2 start a cult, and gather like minded (or in the case of most cults, 'non'minded) supporters, to seem 2 justify the ideas.

the point of a personal philosophy is 2 'para'think ideas which appeal, and have the 'ring' of truth, and codify how 1 wishes 2 live 1,s life.

He IS my cousin ye of little faith. By definition I should have no faith either though so.... AAAAAAARG

He actually used to be on this forum, his name was like zman## or something like that but he was kicked off for talking about poop.

He wants his philosophy to be a religion because he wants disciples. Not really cult like, he just wants to one day become dictator of the world. It's really neat, he has maps!

I bought a wobbly head pen thing today. It's head wobbles.

Why doesn't anyone use these smileys?

he needs to get some miracles under his belt. That way people willgive money. Money is good to a religion. It allows the ministry to live in an appropriate style that reinforces station over the laity.
then hes gotta come up with some sort of personal revelations. These are good too , the simpler the better. You wanna sell lots of bumper stickers (see reference above about money)

Then come up with some different dietary restrictions, loike.
"One can only eat lime jeelll lllo in the tub. One must be sanctified and totally clean to partake of the lsacred lime jeell lllo"

That wobbly head pen is talking about you behind your back.

yup u right; i appologize 4 the "cousin...sure" thing
chalk it up 2 humour;

now if you could get him to incorporate farmerman's 'entertainment quality' into his presentations to the convertees, he'd b on2 something;
and i suggest he give everyone a wiggly head pencil with the name of the new religion stenciled accross its little bum!

i have a squeezy head pencil; the eyes explode when you squeeze the head;
pure unmitigated sleeze!

is bogowo inventing a new language here? (he axed)

farmerman behold:
[as an aside i should add a disclaimer here with respect 2 my "Buggered English"
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10173&start=0
that i have adopted, and refer all 2 such thread under "English", where u can grasp my purpose, and add your comments (please); if my text is generally considered unreadable, then i have failed in my intent, and will adjust 2 suit, or quit]

and what of those "christians" that are phonies.

they belong to a real religion they just don't all practice it.