I don’t agree with you in 100%, but you covered some good points regarding this topic…

I’d just like to add that my mother thinks this website is a Zionist conspiracy

Crap… how did she find out… I mean wa… hmm ok…

that my mother thinks this website is a Zionist conspiracy

So this site isn’t a Zionist conspiracy?

Since we’re on the topic of Zionism, I’d just like to add that my mother thinks this website is a Zionist conspiracy, without knowing that I’m heavily involved here. She doesn’t even understand what that word truly implies, she just trusts the poison our media spews too much. The word ‘Zionism’ is really abused in our region.

“Howie, Jina is the Gibran Khalil* Gibran of cyberspace.

*I prefer to spell it the Arabic way. ”

Funny…looks just like English!

“I am a weird mystic also. I am confusing and confused.”

Anybody that would speak confidently of these types of issues can only be:

A Bhuddah

A self-deluded shithead

A schizophrenic

High on LSD

So confused and confusing sounds like a reasonable place to be on the path to Brahma…or Mrs. God

This is a common thread in mysticism…across all religions…which is why I am a mystic (very very poor one) that believes in an Ulitmately Unifying Entity (no penis)…without form..without body…which is pure Wisdom and pure Love of which we are all connected…

Hindu’s call this being Brahma and the meaning is almost identical to what you just said, Buddhist and Jains call it Nirvana. But to Hindu’s Nirvana is the path to Brahma. I am a weird mystic also. I am confusing and confused.

Jina…come on…are you not impressed with my Hindu background?

HIPPY!!!

and just gave my 18 year old daughter my anciet copy of “The Prophet”

But I am a Jew…should I not have given her “The Profit”??

Muhahahaha… now you done it. Better go burn it.

OK guys…Jina obviously is inferring that he is Gibran reincarnated.

Of course, we are very identical in every way so yup yup… I am believer now. o.O

PS: I am the Prophet he speaks of -.-

*I prefer to spell it the Arabic way.

The rabbinical explaination for “let’s make them in our image” is that there were angels and other members of God’s fan club around the time HE was creating.

In Hebrew…verbs, nouns, and pronouns are ALL gender based

In German nouns, and pronouns (but not verbs) are ALL gender based too – with no logic why one thing is female or male.

God is sometimes even referred to in the male PLURAL…like “elohim” or “elokim”

.. this plural I had just noticed in “ .. God said: ‘Let us make man in our image..”

on this site: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm I just found by google while researching the origin – I looked for something like a word by word translation (not that I can read Hebrew letters, than just a few)

Allah & Elohim or maybe Elia – how close – it’s the same root of course..

“Weird coincidence that the person I admire the most was born exactly 100 years before me ”

OK guys…Jina obviously is inferring that he is Gibran reincarnated.

But I am a Jew…should I not have given her “The Profit”??

This is a common thread in mysticism…across all religions…which is why I am a mystic (very very poor one) that believes in an Ulitmately Unifying Entity (no penis)…without form..without body…which is pure Wisdom and pure Love of which we are all connected…except for feminists and the Irish.

Jina…come on…are you not impressed with my Hindu background?

Esra’a…American blacks and Mexicans also typically refer to “man” :

Hey man
Yo man
Sup man

You think they are anti-feminist?

Maybe there is no gender to God, maybe it is just this grand thing whose greatness we fail to fully comprehend.

Yup

Maybe there is no gender to God, maybe it is just this grand thing whose greatness we fail to fully comprehend.

“you don’t have to wait for the pie in the sky when you die by and by”

Kahlil Gibran (my favourite poet, artist, philosopher) said it best

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Weird coincidence that the person I admire the most was born exactly 100 years before me

God being a male is what pisses me off about Western religions. There is no logic behind it. It reminds me that in the past it has been a patriarchal culture so obliviously that’s where they got the god being man idea. Makes sense too, if you think about it.

Also…as a therapist traning in the 70’s…Eastern thought had a huge impact.

Heimo- In Hebrew…verbs, nouns, and pronouns are ALL gender based…even rocks and buildings and cars are sexy (yeh baby…yeh!)…rocks are female…hah hah as are testicles…ha ha. Building is male…ha ha…your building has a penis.

So in Hebrew there is no getting around it. You gotta commit and God is almost always referred to in the male form…actually…God is sometimes even referred to in the male PLURAL…like “elohim” or “elokim”

Actually…I kind of was a Hindu (kind of) way way back in the day…Paramahansa Yoganada…(Ji guru ji)…Hung out at the ashram for many a day.

Eastern thought powerfully influenced the way I approached and approach religion all my adult life…Zen, regular Bhuddism and aspects of Hinduism. It even shaped my basic understand of man when I like to say

“there is only one thing people want…more”…or as the guru said…desires have no end”. Eastern thought also tickled my fancy for mysticism and the idea that “you don’t have to wait for the pie in the sky when you die by and by” but that perhaps ultimate reality and Truth can be experienced in this lifetime…Also fed my vegetarian tendencies.

So I am a practicing Jew with Eastern leanings…oh…did you know that Judaism (at least aspects of it) believes in “gilgul nesfash”…i.e. reincarnation though they completely reject transmigration.

Rachel—Hebrew is filled with references to God as HIM..and I will continue to do so…God is referred to as male in every sense…in nouns, verbs, pronoun etc.

Ho yoshev al kesay ram!!! He sits on a throne on high…how is that for an anthropomorphic male chavinistic image of Mrs. God?