Why not--Maltheism? (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, July 02, 2011, 18:29 (4674 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

I forget the source of that poem originally, I will look it up and link it. 
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> As for the other, I may have mentioned it on here before(not certain), but I was raised in a household of Jehovah's Witnesses, and branched out into studying other religions when I was very very young with the complete commendation of my family/congregation. They considered research to be fundamental to making a personal choice regarding religion. Anyways, the JW's tend to take a very holistic approach to Christianity, including refusing to adopt a lot of popular but textually unsupported views.(Like the trinity, hellfire, infant baptism, and the 'rapture', etc) There was never a question in my mind about the balanced nature of the Judeo-Christian God, and that concept has only been reinforced with every other religion I have studied since then. 
> -Now the lack of Rapture is interesting, because I thought it was the Watchtower that messed up on at least 3 "Jesus returns" predictions... what is canon here?-> My point with the plant analogy is that though the plant will never exist in the same form again, its nutrients sustain order in us, and then we give back to the soil to sustain the next generation of plant life. To me, the changing of forms is not a destructive act in this case as it is a necessary symbiosis that grants life to all involved. At the risk of sounding like Forest Gump, life is like a box of Legos. No matter which way you build it or break it, you still have Legos. 
> -Except that this isn't true; the Sun is the source of our "balance" and it too operates by creating more entropy and disorder than it creates in order. (The heat & light received by hydrogen fusion is what powers our world.) The plant my nourish and sustain you, but only for as much time as it takes to go and destroy the next plant. Again--you lose 90% of that plant as heat. You only keep 10% of that plant's energy and the rest of that energy is free and cannot be easily reclaimed. -Once the Sun runs out of H, so do we, and so does our world. It isn't a balance at all my friend, it's a continuous progress towards dissolution. Our world is as finite as we are.-> While I do not claim any particular faith, one of the fundamental tenets of my own personal beliefs is that there is balance in all things. Chaos and order. Life and death. Creation and Destruction. None of these things are inherently good or bad, they simply are.-I'm interested to see how you'll respond to the idea of a fundamental balance in nature, because the continuous state of decay in terms of energy does not suggest balance at all. Entropy fundamentally challenges all notions of balance.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"