just saw a program on the HistoryChannel about the Banned Books from The Bible...there's an old saying about seeing and the forest and the trees...to me that deals justly on the topic of religion in that in the QuestForGod there are alot of AvenuesOfApproach to getting there...TheBible...TheKoran...TheTorah...TheThis...TheThat...and TheWhatever...all trying to explain...all trying to answer...all AvenuesOfApproach in the QuestForGod...and deeper still all having their believers who believe their Avenue is the AvenueOfApproach...and there seems to be little tolerance for merging lanes...its all or nothing a sort of my way or the highway mentality...an Autobahn with 6 lanes and no speed limit...in both directions...and collisions are inevitable...muslims colliding with jews...protestants colliding with catholics...evangelists colliding with fundamentalists...aetheist colliding with everybody...RoadRage everywhere...i look at myself...baptized a RomanCatholic went to catholic school 1st to 3rd grade, 4th to 8th spent with irish christian brothers, 9th to 12th no religious affiliation, at the age of 17 went into USAF became a born-again Christian left there at the age of 21 ran into a childhood friend who studies Islam who introduced me to the MartialArts whereby i came across Taoism while playing in a band with a drummer who chants something that sounds like "me-yo-ho-ren-gay-geck-key-yo" and reads a book called 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping'...now on the SuperHighwayOfReligion i'm off on the shoulder with my map out scratching my head...yet with all the trees in ThisForest...i am reaching the conclusion that if someone does cut down one of these trees and no one is there to hear it fall that it does make a sound...just that there's no one there to hear it...and that maybe just maybe TheDestination may not be along the AvenuesOfApproach...just straight up...
to be continued
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