Comments on: Bow Down Before the One you Serve http://www.grazingchaos.org/2005/06/28/bow-down-before-the-one-you-serve/ grazing chaos, mental masturbation at its stickiest Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:32:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ben http://www.grazingchaos.org/2005/06/28/bow-down-before-the-one-you-serve/#comment-21 ben Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:11:21 +0000 http://www.grazingchaos.org/?p=22#comment-21 the more you talk about god the less he/she/it exists. god cannot be put in a box, but we will always try to do this. here is a jean baudrillard quote: "God knows that if he were to show himself, he would cease to exist. He himself has never claimed to exist. He allows himself to be sensed only so that the problem of his existence may be posed. By contrast, advertising is much too visible and makes much too much play of its existence to be what it claims to be - namely, effective. There is no more evidence of the effectiveness of advertising than of the existence of God." Advertising is a practise that I think was started by the Church(tm) which was the first major money making brand with it's own slogans. the more you talk about god the less he/she/it exists. god cannot be put in a box,
but we will always try to do this. here is a jean baudrillard quote:

“God knows that if he were to show himself, he would cease to exist. He himself has never
claimed to exist. He allows himself to be sensed only so that the problem of his existence
may be posed. By contrast, advertising is much too visible and makes much too much play of its existence to be what it claims to be – namely, effective.
There is no more evidence of the effectiveness of advertising than of the existence of God.”

Advertising is a practise that I think was started by the Church(tm) which was the first
major money making brand with it’s own slogans.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.grazingchaos.org/2005/06/28/bow-down-before-the-one-you-serve/#comment-20 Nathan Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:50:24 +0000 http://www.grazingchaos.org/?p=22#comment-20 The problem is complexity; couple that with our tendency to take the easy route and look at outside sources for our answers and you have religion. The thing we all feel is the human soul, life itself. That is the most basic thing. It doesn't need a religion. It doesn't need anyone but itself. This can be an amazingly hard thing to realize fully. No human soul without outside influence desires to truly destroy itself. We all want to be happy. Looking to a god or another person isn't the way to do it. The problem is complexity; couple that with our tendency to take the easy route and look at outside sources for our answers and you have religion.

The thing we all feel is the human soul, life itself. That is the most basic thing. It doesn’t need a religion. It doesn’t need anyone but itself. This can be an amazingly hard thing to realize fully. No human soul without outside influence desires to truly destroy itself. We all want to be happy. Looking to a god or another person isn’t the way to do it.

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