Message from @J_G_
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To chase approval is a waste of time because if you get that kind of approval, its like giving others power over you.
If you need advice, maybe rather ask the ancestors. They wrote copious holy scriptures.
I could think i am giving good advice, but i could be unconsciously trying to sabotage.
I tried to keep writing but Discord put me on slow mode
Got a suggestion to add to my Amazon list of books I'll probably never read?
Like ancestral wisdom wise
The translations differ wildly
I will say Bhagavad Gita, someone else would say the King James Bible, or perhaps the collected works of Blake
Have you heard of the lessons of history by will Durant?
No
William Blake?
Yeah
Sounds like a radical liberal according to the discription
Hm well he was married and believed in God
Hm probably was a free thinker, i havent read much by him,
Im told Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is good
Stoicism
Already own it
Guess I could give it a read
Blake was on another level than just a liberal, he was on the level of prophet. Good or Evil i dont know, but at least he believed in Jesus and God and seems to be in love with spirit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_The_Emanation_of_the_Giant_Albion
Is this like don Quixote?
Ah but as for advice, maybe not
Blake seems to be trying to illustrate the ineffable
Its artsy
To say what cant be said
Maybe one day
The Gita is rather dope. Found it at Airborne school in the 1990s, looked at it for a half an hour. Thought it was weird, put it down. Now its dope though. Just a dude having an existential crisis and God is answering all his questions.
The issue is translations. The one the hare Krishnas sell is fine, but they have a personal agenda to promote their brand. There are translations that are more fair out there.
Plenty on amazon
As long as it has the original sanskrit and transliteration you can look at that to infer the meaning if the translation doesnt sit right.
Ramayana is a really cool story about a different avatar of God from 5000 years ago
India has had God come down and visit 9 times in the past 10,000 years or so
Thats what they believe.
Our bible is KJV and thats kind of it. Theyve got a lot, a lot a lot more scriptures and 'biblical' books
The "hindu" stuff is a separate thing.
Sanatana Dharma is the name of the religion. Sanatana is sanskrit for 'eternal' and dharma is untranslatable and means something like 'righteousness' or 'religion'
The Gita is mind blowing i think. Maybe Im stupid though
Well I added it to my Amazon list
I don't know if things Will go farther than that though