Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2007

[ Happy holidays ]

ENGLISH [ bajá un poco para la versión en Español ]
A friend sent me a link a few weeks ago that I hadn't had the chance to share with you and I think it is very important to do it in the eve of this very important holiday for Christians which is celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ because we sometimes just say "Merry Christmas" without even knowing if the person we are saying that to is a Christian or if Christmas has a meaning to him/her or not, and so we should learn to tolerate and respect the beliefs of everybody to the point where it's possible and say "happy holidays" in case you're not sure :P.

I will share an extract from the site I got the link to, post the link to an image and a smaller version of it and will also translate it to Spanish and make this post both in English and Spanish. For those of us who believe in Christ please let's remind ourselves what this celebration really is about and let's not get sad and melancholic on this date, you don't like it when your someone around you is sad on your birthday so why would He? ^_^

here's the link: http://servicioskoinonia.org/posters/
here's the extract:
The famous metaphor of the elephant being touched by blind men who want to define it is normally attributed to Hinduism, but is vindicated also by Jainism and by Buddhism. The blind men try to define the elephant with their best will, but they can't make themselves an exact idea of it. And it is useless for them to argue, because they are all right in a way. What they must do is share, to complete each other. An ideal metaphor for the inter-religious dialogue.

Our illustrator -in this case Fernando Bernabé- has preferred to paint a female elephant, for a matter of gender perspective, and makes us observe that the official wise men have historically been men...
here's the image:
huge - small
Happy holidays everyone !




ESPAÑOL [ scroll up a bit for the English version ]
Un amigo me envió un link hace un par de semanas que no había tenido la oportunidad de compartir con ustedes y creo que es muy importante hacerlo en la víspera de esta importante fiesta para los Cristianos que es celebrar el nacimiento de nuestro Señor Jesucristo porque a veces nosotros sólamente decimos "Feliz Navidad" sin si quiera saber si la persona a la que se lo decimos es Cristiano o si la Navidad tiene o no un signficado para él o ella, así que deberíamos aprender a tolerar y respetar las creencias de todos hasta el punto en el que sea posible y decir "felices fiestas" si no se está seguro :P.

Compartiré un extracto del sitio del que me mandaron el link, el link de una imagen y su versión más pequeña y también lo voy a traducir al Inglés para postear tanto en Español como en Inglés. Para aquellos de nosotros que creemos en Cristo por favor recordémonos a nosotros mismos el verdadero significado de esta celebración y no no spongamos tristes o melancólicos en esta fecha, a ustedes no les gusta cuando alguien a su alrededor está triste en su cumlpeaños así que por qué habría de gustarle a Él? ^_^

acá está el link: http://servicioskoinonia.org/posters/
acá está el extracto:

La famosa metáfora del elefante palpado por los ciegos que quieren definirlo es atribuida normalmente al Hinduismo, pero es reivindicada también por el Jainismo y por el Budismo. Los ciegos definen al elefante con su mejor buena voluntad, pero no pueden hacerse una idea cabal de él. Y es inútil que discutan, porque todos tienen su razón. Lo que deben hacer es compartir, para complementarse. Metáfora ideal para el diálogo inter-religioso.

Nuestro dibujante -en este caso Fernando Bernabé- ha preferido pintar una elefanta, por cuestión de perspectiva de género, y nos hace observar que los sabios oficiales han sido históricamente varones...
acá está la imagen:
enorme - pequeña
Felices fiestas a todos!

Saturday, November 18, 2006

[ Kabbalah ][ ? ]

I was reading just a while ago a little bit about the Kabbalah, they talked about parallel universes and the fact that life was like a movie theater in which you get only to choose which movie you're gonna watch, but you can't choose the ending of the movie, neither can you take part on the developement of the story. Under this perspective they said that you shouldn't try to change the world around you cause it was of no use; but rather you should try to switch to a different universe in which the world around you is different x_x. I don't know, i'm very respectful about ways of thinking, or at least i want to believe that; i believe in parallel universes in some way but switching between them? leaving the world as it is? trying to not make a difference? i don't think so, that's a very conformist way of thinking from my humble point of view, if you only try to adjust yourself to the enviroment [ whichever universe this is from :P ] you will never create something by yourself, you will never contribute to the developement of human knowledge, of humanity. Where would we be if Einstein, Gandhi, Jesus would have thought they shouldn't change the world surrounding them? You might have wondered [ and as well guessed ] which religion i profess, i have to say none, but i'm a believer and have faith in Jesus Christ and God.

Then again it could have been that what i was reading wasn't even Kabbalah at all and it was just somebody who typed his conception of Kabbalah; in which case just ignore this whole post :P

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

[ Theology ]

What is Theology? the Scientific study of God? the study of religions?; whichever meaning it has, why study that? why use our time in that kind of study when we could use it for helping others, for loving others for making this world a better place, for building His Kingdom on Earth...?