"When we know that we are utter nothingness, we realize that we have not done anything, but God perfectly does all things through us and through other creatures as well.
When we think we are something great, we boastfully claim to be authors of all good things and blasphemously blame God for all bad things; although we don't have true knowledge to distinguish good from bad, right from wrong, true from false"
(Please note I mean no offence to those with anorexia nor am I attempting to trivialise such a terrible desease - it just seemed an accurate description.)
2006-12-17 14:16:34 · 7 answers · asked by munkydogg 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ferrisob1... That wasn't my quote it was posted as an answer to a seperate question but yor point"Mental anorexia would be to promote the absence of thought or the starvation of truth." Is an excellent succinct description of what I was trying to ask or as someone else said a spiritual starvation
Cheers!
2006-12-17 14:41:07 · update #1
todaywise...I'm afraid I do due to personal experience with it. If you mean that it is more to do with body image than the physical manifestation of the desease then you have hit the nail on the head regarding my attempt to describe what I believe is a very dangerous thought process of many religous beleivers and specifically the type of person who would quote this passage. If this wasn't what you meant please feel free to email me to discuss it.
2006-12-17 15:31:00 · update #2
Fantastic point, And if not a mental anorexia, certainly a spiritual one, not to mention being terribly nearsighted!
Thanks for the thoughtful insight!
Charles "That Cheeky Lad"
May everyone have a wickedly happy Christmas!
2006-12-17 14:35:38 · answer #1 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry Dude I keep reading your question but I can't follow it in your statement.
If God the creator is responsible for all the good surely God's responsible for all the bad, I mean if we truly are nothing then surely it wasn't us but God acting through us and everything else as well.
Is it not a question of wisdom,
to admit we know nothing would be something.
Mental anorexia would be to promote the absence of thought or the starvation of truth. But if we admit we know nothing we'd have no want for mental food, an if we can't differentiate between right and wrong how could we decide what to eat in the first place, or indeed that we'd need to?
2006-12-17 14:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This promotes low self-esteem, guilt, depression & delusion - some of the mental health problems exhibited by the religious.
2006-12-17 22:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by David M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say yes, although denying that the idea itself exists would be just as bad. I would add it to philosophy, but it's no science text.
2006-12-17 14:18:21 · answer #4 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well said, munkydogg.
2006-12-17 14:22:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you know what anorexia is.
2006-12-17 15:22:43 · answer #6 · answered by todaywiserthanyesterday 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
EXECUTE
2006-12-17 14:39:29 · answer #7 · answered by 99tzm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋