LUPPY LOKE!!!! YOU WERE HALF HOUR LATE!!! (oh ? I complained already =P )
Nevermind, we hada great and filling dinner.
Both for the stomach and mental (i think ? Coz we were laughing like 2 crazy people)
The point was, while I was waiting I was flipping through a bunch of books.
First I read the pictorial bible, until the part after Noah's Ark landed safely.
Set me thinking, if the religion is said to be forgiving, wouldn't something be done to make those evil people less evil rather than "restarting" the Universe ?
And if the people are really evil, why kill the rest of the living things as well ?
I better shut up before I get flamed.
Moved on to read about Buddha.
Basically I chose a pictorial book again, but the photos were gorgeous.
Most temples were in Burma, and the sculptures of Buddha were not only magnificent and also very detailed.
Saw this sentence in the book and it sets me thinking.
Rely on nothing, until you want nothing One of Buddha's teachings, but apparently it's almost unattainable by majority.
And by doing so, would we lack any concern and care for others ?
Fundamentally, to attain Enlightenment, one must not desire for it.
The basis of desiring has already breached the teachings of Buddha (This is for my own purpose of remembering)
The book also said that we should not engage in philosophical view and something else which I forgot as it will just mess us up ( that's my understanding)
Then I reflect back on how people often described Buddhism as a philosophy and not religion. So philosophy should not be used then ?
Jumped to another book, about how some children could remember their past life.
Set me thinking (again, yes).
If the theory about past life is true, effectively there's a soul that exist and undergo reincarnation.
If the theory of ghost is true as well, evidence provided by people who can see them.
There would be a lack of soul for each new biological body conceived during fertilisation.
Does that mean that some people now exist without a soul ?
Or new souls are created, but how ?
I scrolled up and find some of my questions silly, but that was what I was thinking at that point of time.
Tried to read Nostradamus, but failed. The library version was better. Still remembered what he predicted about Singapore (!!)
* Side track, Nostradamus was born around 1500's, so the ability to predict about how Singapore fell to Japan in WWII was really astounding*
I wanted to see if he had predicted about 512 earthquake, but I didn't know how to navigate the book for my usage.
Seeing huge pictures on the newspaper here was really saddening.
The least respect one could show was to photograph the extent of the damage, and NOT of someone being buried alive, take the photo of the face, wasting precious minutes pulling him out of the "past-agony" he faced.
That's really disrespectful, and who wanted to get "famous" in this manner?
2 major natural disaster happened in the region, innocent lives lost, and yet, nothing could be done.
Death is really unexpected.
Okay, so much so for my long post.
No, not turning into a religion fanatic, just some thoughts on them.
I remember: " This shouldn't be a routine, but should be something what we want to do" So how badly is the want?
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