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JUST A THOUGHT ON - IF I WERE A MAN, OR, INDEED, WOMAN OF THE CLOTH, HOW WOULD I BE ABLE ...? PART.4

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  .. to live with myself, if I were to find, or admit that have misled 'the flock'?     After all, religions faiths are, indeed, one of the central pillars of most, if not all of our human societies.  Even if the level of  belief and devotion, at given times, might, like the tide of the ocean, ebbs and flows.  Or, in some societies, even steadily decline as 'irrational belief' gives way to increased scientific dominance and intellectual enlightenment. But, is it enough?  Can it ever be enough for men and women of the cloth of any theistic religious faiths.   To use the cultural imperative, the fact that 'we were born into our religious faiths, which is an important part of us', to explain away or mitigate their culpability, if they have mislead their flock? I mean, although it would be a credible defence to argue that men and women of the cloth are simply keeping the customs, traditions and cultures of our ancestors alive.   By continuing to preach and teach the

JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 1.

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  Life, it could be said, is both a blessing and a curse. It is the fate of all contemplative primate to have experience of both the blessing and the curse that life, living is. So, what have I, in my decades of living, learnt about living? Let me begin by briefly explaining my concept and experience of this thing called 'life' , as I have so far lived it. So, for me, 'life' is that finite but limited extendable conscious space between the birth of a human and his/her death or transition from organic to inorganic matter. Experientially, life is for living, but how shall or should we live it? Is there any specifically way in which us humans should be living, and if so, what or how is that, and who or what formulated the concept of how we should live? In having an understanding of how us humans should live, we can begin to form a view from observing how us Earthlings, both higher order lower hierarchy primates and other creatures live. Or we can look to the philosophical