Christianity QA » Christian God » Blasphemous Might be perfectly good!
Question:
On 13-Aug-2005, howdydave Howdy! My whole point was: Can a person bow to the divine element within another person if s/he has not first recognized/discovered it within him/herself?
Yes, they can, but they are missing the best part.
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Howdy Dave, You have asked about Namaste… To me the important point is the intention not the words we use. Your HOWDY to me is much better than NAMASTE. Because it is HONEST…It does not try to make big meanings…. In other words some times even the word BLASPHEMOUS might mean a perfectly good feeling…If it was used same as DAVE has done. With compassion, Puma
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Puma, Couldn’t agree with you more 
Jared Lates…
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Howdy! My whole point was: Can a person bow to the divine element within another person if s/he has not first recognized/discovered it within him/herself? — howdydave This message originated from http://www.yoga-meditation.org
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My dear jared, Even salutations in this world can be a dividing instrument. As all the religions are…Therefore BLASPHEMOUS to me is perfectly allright. I was raised in Islamic notions in my early years…And now I see that there are very few people in this world,who really know GOD…. And most of them are the ones who are called BLASPHEMOUS. Because their GOD is not a jewish god,is not a Muslim God and is not a Christian God either! But these people really know GOD…And therefore things are in completely opposite directions. Therefore some of them are called Ateist! That means they do not recognise any known religious GOD…Because almost all the religions except Buddhism,try to monopolise GOD! Unless we get rid of our conditioned minds , we will have a very hard time to realize this sort of matters…Just look around and see how GODLY terror is going on on the globe… They are all believers…But they are fighting by each other…I never seen any ateist fighting for a religious reason! With compassion, Puma
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Howdy Dave, You have asked about Namaste… To me the important point is the intention not the words we use. Your HOWDY to me is much better than NAMASTE. Because it is HONEST…It does not try to make big meanings…. In other words some times even the word BLASPHEMOUS might mean a perfectly good feeling…If it was used same as DAVE has done. With compassion, Puma
Howdy Puma! Exactly my point (re: intention)… Are we talking about a standard social salutation or about spiritual recognition? To use a parallel in English salutations, are we talking about: "Hello" (which is an appropriate salutation to anybody) or "He is risen!"/"He is risen indeed!" (which is usually only appropriate between Christians.) — Namaste Dave
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