I'm reading the Koran again after a 3 year year hiatus. I find it hard to believe that anyone takes this book seriously. Even people from the seventhcentury should have realized that they were only serving the interests of, not God, but Muhammad.

The only reason why that man got so many converts was the alternate options were death or enslavement. Not a tough decision for people of weak conviction.

Every religion has fail safes in place to dissuade conversion to another religion. So either modern religions were capitalizing on ancient religions that lacked this feature OR they ignored the trait of inconviction. The only reason such a weasley trait can be overlooked would be strengthen numbers. Muhammad and St.Paul knew the numbers game. The more people that bought the bullshit, then the more secure and successful their lives would become... the con artists of yor.

I have finished the Upanishads. It is quite interesting that these teachings that were derived from the Vedas could bare such a stricking resemblence to the teachings of Christ and the New Testament. Example in the Supreme Teaching; it states: "Let him not ponder on many words, for many words are weariness," and in Ecclesiasts (12:12) it states: "Of making books there is no end, much study is the weariness of the flesh."

There is also a resemblence from the Upanishads to Camus' writing in "According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes... And they say in truth that a man is made of desire. As his desire is, so is his faith. And as his faith is, so are his works. As his works are, so he becomes... A man comes with his actions to the end of his determination." Camus stated, "to be is to do," much more succinctly.

Then we have Socratic like verses: "Into deep darkness dall those who follow action. Into deeper darkness fall those who follow knowledge." All that contemplation could provide is more questions and less understanding.

There are also verses in the spirit of quantum mechanics: "For only where there seems to be a duality, there one sees another, one feels another's perfume, one tastes another, one speaks to another,one listens to another, one touches another, and one know another." Meaning that existence depends upon observing entities. Solike Schrodinger's cat, we don't know if it is alive or dead until it is observed and until that point the cat is both.

The references to love would rival Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: " As a man in the arms of the woman beloved feels only peace all around... no desires are there, and there is no sorrow."

Important questions are given answers. Like is there life after death? Of course there IS but the big question is: are you consious after death? The answer (in the Upanishads) is NO. So cut and dry; not much room for argument. In explaination, it is believed that the sould, the seed of consciousness, returns to the source (which is Brahman and is the ALL), and since the soul becomes the all, there are no distincions to cause contemplation. Without distinction, nothing can be compared.

The Holy Trinity:
...)[the father]([the holy spirit])[the son](...
Jesus was the son of God and will come again; just like the waveform vibration reforms a node. He appears as a focus point of the holy spirit. This focal point can land on any person. Jesus didn't mean that he was the one and only son of God. We are all GOd's children and all have the capacity for loving unconditionally as the Christ. It is a tragety when someone doesn't realize this potential. The problem is that the "Good Word" cannot be forced upon another. They must reach that wisdom of their own volition.

The holy spirit is the force behind the observer; the eye's eye.

I love you all, but you are all sick.

The thought of writing a book has disgusted me. Not due to the self-agrandisement, but rather that someone would waste their time skimming over the labors of my spleen, but worse yet... that no one would bother.

Why should man worry about the "why" of evil and ugliness when so much of the ugliness and evil of this world is the work of man. >> UPANISHAD [Juan Mascaro]

Those things that are beyond thought should not be subjected to argument. >> UPANISHAD

When we can argue about a thing it shows that it is not worth arguing about. >> BUDDHA

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. >> BLAKE

Distorted imagination is the source of all fanaticism and superstition... it is no wonder that that those who, through the lack of SPIRITUAL DISCRIMINATION, cannot see the difference between faith based on vision and fear based on superstition may be bound by a merely EXTERNAL RELIGION or condemn all religion. >> UPANISHAD

There is nothing more common to man than wasted talent. >> TS Idiot

There is a path of joy and there is a path of pleasure. Both attract the soul... Pondering on them, the wise choses the path of joy;the fool takes the path of pleasure. >> UPANISHAD

It is the love of creation that moves the sould of the artist.

Science makes concrete things abstract, art makes abstract things concrete. >> UPANISHAD

Silence and action collect the thoughts and strengthen the spirit. >> ST.JOHN OF THE CROSS

The most sure sign of love is to do works of love. >> ST.TERESA

A bane upon them; may the worms of their avarice consume their intestines.

AVARICE: Ecessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain.

BANE: A source of harm or ruin.

POX: A disasterour evil; curse; plague.