Metaphorical interpretations

When the Quran calls for war, it is often an internal war the text is referring to,
an inner Jihad against temptations and selfishness.

When Krishna urges Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita, to do his duty and go to war,
it should be interpreted metaphorically.

Jewish rabbis have always been forced to find metaphorical interpretations
to the extremely violent and dreadful exhortations from their brutal God.

Why was it so hard for the authors of the ancient religious scriptures to call a spade a spade?

And why do the scribes of today spend so much of their precious time to find decent interpretations of the ancient texts? What do they find there that appeals to them? Why don’t they just write new books where they would be able to spell out clearly what they consider is right or wrong?

Hold on

You don't want to let go of your ego,
like a little girl who don't want to let go of her security blanket.

The future

Five hundred years ago, no one knew
that the earth rotates around the sun.
Four hundred years ago, no one knew
that bacteria and viruses could cause diseases.
Two hundred years ago, no one had heard about
genes and DNA molecules.

Five hundred years from now, maybe people will understand things
that are totally incomprehensible for us today.
Maybe they will find a doors to other dimensions.
Maybe they will understand how to live in peace with one another.
Who knows what they will arrive at?
If not humanity have died out before then.

Acquisitive disorder

All people like good food.

However, a good appetite can also turn into a disorder, an obsession.

Many people are eating themselves to death. They need help.

The desire for power and money is also quite normal.

Nobody wants to feel powerless and poor.

But the pursuit of power and money

can also turn into an obsession, a disorder.

Words of wisdom

Do not despise lies and self-deceptions.

Without them, many people would have nothing to live for.

Which one of them is you?

One part of my mind wants to lose weight and stop drinking, another part wants to eat, drink and be merry. A third part is jealous and a fourth part is critical and judgmental. A fifth part is like a cultivated therapist, with a pearl necklace, that is trying to explain to the other parts, with a soft voice, that they must be more sensible. An additional part observes all these contradictory parts and tries to figure out how to deal with them. None of these parts is my true self. There is no true, delimited self in the mind, I believe. To search for a true, authentic, delimited self is like searching for the Easter Bunny.

The main issue

How is it that Hitler became so vicious?
He was also a cute little kid when he was little.
Did he catch syphilis, was he possessed by an evil spirit, was he insane?
Does it matter, really?
Isn't the main issue why so many people began to worship him?
How do you explain that?

http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/74776.php