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Sin in Catholicism I am a postgraduate Catholic, meaning no longer attached to the Catholic Church, but I still know a lot about Catholicism. As regards sin, I was and am still a practitioner, everyday, in big things and in small things, in a Catholic context, that is. But I hope that God...

Philosophy according to Buddhists Dear Vaj: I am myself honestly at a loss what precisely is philosophy as understood by Western philosophers from the Greek thinkers to the present writers in Western languages on matters assigned in the library to the section called philosophy...

What's science, religion? I myself am a bit unsure what exactly is science, and also what exactly is religion. I would like you to contribute to my education. What do you think is science, in a breif paragraph? And what do you think is religion, also in a brief paragraph? I am...

Diverse cuisines Dear Shih: You say something which I believe is worth the genuine attention of every Jew, Christian, and Muslim, and whatever other monotheists: I would think if we believe in the same God, it must be the same religion. From what I have seen, I think we do. If I...

Eating unhealthy foods Before anything else, I want to declare that I believe in God. (This is getting to be like having to say that you are against international terrorism, before you express an honest opinion against Bush's invasion war on Iraq.) On evolution vs. God's direct...

Cordial invitation Welcome to this forum, Ain. And I would like to make an imposition on your time and trouble, if I may, please read my posts and tell me what you think of my ideas. (How vain... Hehehehe) Like some others here, I am possessed of sundry views on almost everything...

Greater than love for women Dear Quah: I am of the same sentiments as yours above on the sublime status of women. But when you say that: Gays may have love, but it is not the same...it can't be. Nature did not design us to lock and bond with same sex partners. Two men, or two women can...

Stock knowledge Dear JJM: You are asking me: Could you please tell me where this quote comes from? I don't doubt it exists would just like to know where it's from. In regard to my saying that: ...the Apostle of the Gentiles, and thus accordingly called, gives a very general and safe...

Errors and contradictions like Satan? It might be useful for some scholars to find out when believers in the Bible came to the attachment to an idea that the Bible should be without errors and without contradictions, otherwise it would be like Satan sitting with Jesus or Moses at the right hand...

Good psychological insights From sama: The root of our problems lies in what we are not aware of. 'I know I must be nice, but I just can't help acting in such and such a way when I meet a certain person.' This is because the unconscious mind starts sending me big signals to stay away or...

Circumcision and Jewish observances Dear JJM: I am myself circumcised from a personal choice at the age of 24 because I thought it was better than not. No, I am not Jewish, nor an Arab, but a postgraduate Catholic Christian. About your statement "Circumcision (this is much healthier)", I...

A father talks about... I have here with me a little booklet, one of a series; in each title there are the words: "A Father Talks about..." This one is on "A Father Talks about Marriage and Family". The father here is a Catholic priest. This father talks but I know he had neither...

A digression Reading induces eyestrain. And even if you cannot put down a book because it's so absorbing, nonetheless your eyes do get tired and uncomfortable. So reading can be at least a discomfort in the eye. Now if someone among the computer hardware and software experts, those guys...

Two tests Nogo, that's a very good evisceration of the Ouija genie. I agree with your position that any movements taking place with the Ouija pointer is from the participants, whether knowingly or granting for the sake of argument unknowingly. But there are still believers who won't...

Thanks! Thank you, Brian, for your goodness. May I share with you a simplistic thought? The catastrophe to knowledge is for people who won't read to burn books so that others can't read them either. Best regards, and to your better half and kids. Susma Rio Sep

Imitation of Christ I am reading at present, one among several books, all of them very small ones, "The Imitation of Christ." I think Buddhists will like this book. Here is one line I like very much: I sought for peace everywhere, and I have not found it anywhere, except in a little...

I am no troll. Dear Brian: I assure you that I don't fit the descriptions of troll which you have drawn up so far. Of course that's my own knowledge of my mind and heart. Bgru appears to me to be a bit over-enthusiastic with his duty. Maybe if he would just point out to me the lines where...

Breathing on my shoulders Dear Brian: Thanks for this section, because it obviously is intended to receive feedbacks whatever, provided they be founded on some sound considerations. I have this matter of how the violation of trolling is committed. In this world of infinite...

Leave the institution. I am a postgraduate Catholic, meaning no longer attached to Catholicism, but sympathetic to it for memory's sake. Now I am a Christian but very liberal, maybe ultra-liberal. I would tell your friend, Vaj, to consider that as my old catechism tells me, religion is a...

Knowledge is good! I am glad to be of encouragement to anyone doing anything in the way of advancing knowledge. Of course there are people who fear that all knowledge is not all wholesome knowledge. That's true, in the sense that some people might and did and will use knowledge to destroy...