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[gandalfglamdrin.livejournal.com]

We were supposed to be moving on to Buddism today.
However, due to the large amounts of new students, we will again start from the beginning. I hope that there will be more class discussion.

Welcome to Comparitive Religion.

The feast is ready for you all. There should be a multitude of favorate foods available.
I hope we will all get along well.

To start the class, please, once more, tell me... What is Religion?

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[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Good thing I did it, then. *smiles, hands over paper*

How do I worship? If you take worship to mean "taking the time remember that there is something bigger than I am," then the meditations required by my Order would count.

We remind ourselves that there is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no chaos; there is harmony. There is no death; there is the Force. They are the tenets of our faith, if you will, the core of our belief. They, not the lightsabers or the telekinetic powers, are what make us, makes me, Jedi.

[gandalfglamdrin.livejournal.com]

Then what is wrong with that,.. what makes it impossible to follow?

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Because I'm only human.

I have passion, I see chaos, I experience emotion, I fear death. The tenets are good to aspire to but I fear that I come up quite short in actually accomplishing any of them.

[gandalfglamdrin.livejournal.com]

So give me 100 words (or more), next class.

How can we aspire, and reach, that which is noble in all of us?

practical examples only, please.