Orgasm. The meaning of life itself?

Well, quite a long post. Interesting though. Here's my take:

“May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.“ Does this statement not support the notion that sex is a greater good? It is making promises which appeal to lust, particularly the "may her breasts satisfy you" part. This seems contradictory to other statements in the Bible- though contradictions I know are abundant.

"You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet."

This at first appears to support environmentalism(I find it humorous that so many conservatives are against such things; digression). But again, this elevates humans to something higher than the animal kingdom they were borne from. It founds the illusion that this universe revolves around us, is built for us. Certainly it would come with a sense of responsibility, so there is a redeeming quality to this appeal to the narcissistic self (I mean this not derogatorily).

"No one remembers the former events,
nor will anyone remember the events that are yet to happen;
they will not be remembered by the future generations.“

This is beautiful.

I am not sure about your counterpoint to my razor's edge point. Many of my beliefs come from my Hindu upbringing. The Razor's Edge is an excerpt from the Katha Upanishad, an incredibly ancient Vedic text. While I am agnostic, I find my beliefs to be comfortably in flux, as I still do not have the experience to assert something indefinitely. I suggest you read that excerpt.

Your response to my heaven point is interesting. I guess I make that assumption because most modern Christians believe heaven is a place with structures such as Earth and they will meet everyone in their life who will appear in the same flesh and whatnot. In Hinduism, there is a heaven, but it is finite, and you will be reborn once your merits from your previous life have been used up. After fully trying to understand both of these ideas, I came to the conclusion that they are imaginary.
The end of that passage: "What the Book of Revelation ultimately describes is the “New Jerusalem” coming down from heaven to earth. In other words, it is a joining, a co-mingling of the two, where there will be no more division between the realm and reign of God with the earthly sphere." reaffirms my belief that these are human constructions. Bear in mind that this is not a statement about the quality of the metaphor, I find it to be very engaging literature.

You haven't convinced me that Christianity doesn't espouse a genderless god with non-human traits. You yourself have consistently referred to "Him" and "Himself" when speaking of god. Also, from my limited experience reading the Old Testament (All of Genesis and some other parts), it's clear that Yahweh has very human emotions and appearances. Perhaps devotional art has forced this belief, but the scripture certainly does too.

I'm a pretty big fan of Jesus. And as many people have said, he's pretty much a liberal hippie. In fact he stands out hugely against everything else in the New and (especially) Old Testament. Those texts often seem arcane compared to what he says.

The Ecclesiastes post perfectly sums up my point about "nothing". "and through faith in him, we can and will receive that gift of eternal life": this is the function of religion, to alleviate the fear of death. To prevent our egos from wandering and peering down into the abyss of what comes after.



Thoroughly interesting post. I hope I don't sound to argumentative, I am more curious to pick apart different aspects of religion because it still interests me.