APPLEBEES
First time to go to BlueBoat or Nile boat or Blue Nile.Oups, forgot the name. Well, it is something along these lines. I had supper with Z. at applebees. Nice place actually. Good food. Can be better for sure. Last time I ate applebees was with my mom in the States.
Anyways, this is the second night in a row that I ate many supper(s) in the same day with less than an hour in between. In fact, last night I had late lunch at home, had an early supper at peking, and then a late supper at seqoia. 4 hours and I ate 3 times. Peking was the worst of all. The company was boring and I wasn't in the mood to chineese. Seqoia was the best food. I now love the place.
We left applebees after almost 4 hours. We had a nice talk. New job, politics, a little political gossips and ended with talking about religion. Everytime we discuss religion I am left with this floating feeling.... Am I really agnostic? Very interesting feeling, not sure if I like it or not. Rossetti can you give me a hand with that.
I missed Lutfi's painting exhibition. Will go see it tomorrow with O.
My test results. I find it a little funny that Islam-Judaism are followed closely with paganism and agnosticism.
Anyways, this is the second night in a row that I ate many supper(s) in the same day with less than an hour in between. In fact, last night I had late lunch at home, had an early supper at peking, and then a late supper at seqoia. 4 hours and I ate 3 times. Peking was the worst of all. The company was boring and I wasn't in the mood to chineese. Seqoia was the best food. I now love the place.
We left applebees after almost 4 hours. We had a nice talk. New job, politics, a little political gossips and ended with talking about religion. Everytime we discuss religion I am left with this floating feeling.... Am I really agnostic? Very interesting feeling, not sure if I like it or not. Rossetti can you give me a hand with that.
I missed Lutfi's painting exhibition. Will go see it tomorrow with O.
My test results. I find it a little funny that Islam-Judaism are followed closely with paganism and agnosticism.
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The other idea I have been playing with is the relationship between my detachment and fear. It is when I am scared that I am distant from others, my world, and thus God. Fear chips away at my faith until I believe that I can only rely on myself. For instance, recently I was concerned about someone breaking into my apartment. I made sure that my doors and windows were locked, bought an alarm, and at night kept my cell phone and a weapon near my bed… All these preparations to protect what? All these barriers to world so that my few possessions and my transient flesh might be safe. Do I act similarly in my relationships? Putting up barriers to protect an even more fragile ego?
So I ask myself: “What does Jesus teach? What did Jesus say about fear? And why?”
My answer is this: “Jesus said that we should fear nothing, not even our Father in Heaven. Our Father will always forgive us and will always provide for us – if not in this life than in the next. If we fear we feel the need for barriers and build them. And once our barriers are constructed it is very easy to believe in a God that cannot or will not penetrate and rejoice in our lives.”
Anyway, these are my thoughts on detachment. And now it is time to destroy some barriers…
Haal, just found out from a quizz the proper religion for my is...can you guess? Islam, followed closely by Budhism and Hinuism. Moreover, it seems I am pretty agnostic! :)The results and the link to the quizz are posted on my blog. Interesting, but not very reliable, I guess.
This again corresponds to another of Jesus’ teachings, that we are the children of God and that we should accept God like a child. Or the similar to the Hindu belief that we are born with our minds open and then the world closes that hole – we spend the rest of life trying to reopen it to reach Nirvana.
Regarding Kayla’s comment on the Bible. Anyone of intellect understands that the Bible or any historical document has been changed many times. We do not “know” what Jesus “really” said or any prophet for that matter. I think we need to look at our faith holistically and then boil it down to a simple message that we can understand and hopefully live by. It then follows that there is no “correct” faith, there is only the right faith for you. However, once you find it try not to label it. If it has a name then it is constrained or boxed in by its definition (society etc that Hameed mentions) – it cannot grow. And one of the lessons the woods taught me is that anything that cannot grow dies.
Rosetti, I think you need another 6 months in the woods. So am I? I realized staying here makes me look in the mirror alot. Dont want to forget what I look like. But it doesnt work out that easy here in cairo/egypt.
Want to meet in P.? Gear your sac-a-dos and come! Next week.