Everything is going pretty good.
I'm not feeling so lost and paniced about my "issues" I talked about in earlier posts. Speaking of which, I'm reading a book right now and I really appreciated this piece from it which touches on a subject that
blissofsuede and I were talking about a few days ago:
This gradually led to the founding of various religions, each according to the insight that its founder had, regard being to the needs of the time and the people and the level of racial understanding and capacity to accept, digets, and assimilate the teachings ofthe Apostles, Messiahs and Prophets who came from time to time for the material, mental, moral, social and economic upliftment of the multitudes.
All religions spring from the best of motives. The leaders of religious thought are as much the product of the time as the conditions they create for the amelioration of the masses among whom they preach. This being the case, it may not be far amiss to say that for the majority of the people, the superb teaching of the enlightened teachers, formed what may be said socio-religions, codes of social and moral precepts so as to make people lives in peace with one anther, rather than in a state of perpetual unrest, and fear of war - war of one against all and all against one.
Although, as he said,
all religions spring from the best of motives, it seems to have brought the world more trouble in the long run than it has anything else, unfortunately.
So I don't know if I already said, but last week we went to the Ringling Museum of Art. My new avatar is a picture of a statue figure's face I took. It was the last one I got to take and we were only halfway through the museum. The camera was running out of batteries (forgot to charge it the night before) and so to save power, it would automatically shut off. Well, there was no flash aloud when you took pictures and when I turned the camera back on to take this picture, I forgot to turn the flash off first and my gramma took the camera from me because she didn't want it to happen again and us get thrown out. Lucky that time no one was around to see. But yeah. I LOVED this guy's face. I took a few other pictures of some pieces I liked but my grandparent's computer is too slow to post them right now, so I'll do it when I get home. It was a really neat museum, though.
I just love that sculture... His face is so playful and blissful looking. Peaceful and happy. Lovely. :)
Peace Love & Respect
-Liv-
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