Does love have room for discussion?

I would like to know what is the meaning of love?
Does the meaning of love share the value between religion A from religion B?

Is there such thing as graded-love?

What kind of love does Jesus have?

The reason you believe in Jesus is because of God, or because of love?

Does God have love?

The reason you have the feeling of love.. is because of God? or your experience?

Where technology meets religion, a Islamic car?

http://autos.canada.com/news/story.html?id=0f53cc2c-aa48-489f-a45c-63817a0805ad

Very funny...
Quote:
..Malaysia's Proton chief executive, Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, said in November the three countries would develop the car with Islamic features such as a compass to determine the direction of Mecca.....

For Muslims...
Why don't they try:
Skin implant with reminder or timer components of praying 5 times a day.
Skin implant with the campass component that pointing to Mecca...
Heart implant with molecular-based-Quran-written component...
The best one, why dont propose a genetic engineer modification of their offspring?
Introduce or modify certain genes (immunoglobunlin) that will automatically detect and reject pork. Pork's antigen meets Muslim's antibody.. that is very interesting.. ^_^

When technology drives religion, you will observe interesing human behavior.
When religion drives technology, you will observe illogical human behavior.

What is the ultimate value of human life? my questions to Karen Armstrong

Theory of religious fundamentalism

Armstrong has advanced a counter-intuitive theory of religious fundamentalism^{[citation needed]}, key to understanding the movements as they emerged in the late fifteenth and twentieth centuries:

Central to her reading of history is the notion that premodern cultures possessed two complementary and indispensable ways of thinking, speaking and knowing: mythos and logos. Mythos was concerned with meaning; it "provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal" ^[5]. Logos, on the other hand, dealt with practical matters. It forged ahead, elaborating on old insights, mastering the environment, and creating fresh and new things. Armstrong argues that modern Western society has lost the sense of mythos and enshrined logos as its foundation. Mythical narratives and the rituals and meanings attached to them have ceded authority to that which is rational, pragmatic and scientific - but which does not assuage human pain or sorrow, and cannot answer questions about the ultimate value of human life. However, far from embarking on a wholesale rejection of the modern emphasis in favour of the old balance, the author contends, religious fundamentalists unwittingly turn the mythos of their faith into logos. Fundamentalism is a child of modernity, and fundamentalists are fundamentally modern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong
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Human pain and sorrow are the antagonist of ultimate value of human life?
Nowadays, is it called depression or stress?

I think as a human, you have to learn to accept the consequence of your responsibility before attempting to act on it.

a life can be painful if you think it is a pailful one. no one can make you happy but yourself...

For example,
life is not fair, accept it and move on with your day-to-day lives..
life has many joys and sorrows, please enjoy both...
life can be ugly and beautiful, please accept it.
life will be meaningless if you make an attempt to compare yours to someone.
life can be exciting or boring, if you believe in faith.. your life will be boring...(my opinion.)
life serves no practical value if you don't contribute your life to the human society.
life can be simple if you refuse to take anything from human society.
life can be complicated if you think it is complicated.
life can be interacting if you give to and take from the society.
life is short as if a form of battery. you can run out the energy... *_*
life cannot be recycle.
life needs luck to make bad and good decision.
life takes sustenance
life takes brain
life takes religion?
life takes science.
life needs goodness. the goodness is from evolution (time + trials = Y), not from creation (X created Y)
life takes human potential.... ^_^

So much about life.. yet I dont see it pailful rather hopeful..
Religion is not the drug for the ultimate value of human life.. yet I see it as a product of primitive human activity....

So much about religion, so much about Quixotic... ^_^

Abnormal behavior as a physical disease, .it is not some kinds of demonic possession.

Freud’s structure of the mind

Freudian Theory of the Structure and Function of the Mind
The Structure of the Mind

-Id (pleasure principle; illogical, emotional, irrational)
-Ego (reality principle; logical and rational)
-Superego (moral principles; keeps Id and Ego in balance)

Defense Mechanisms: When the Ego Loses the Battle with the Id and Superego
-Displacement & denial
-Rationalization & reaction formation
-Projection, repression, and sublimation

Psychosexual Stages of Development
-Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages


Use of religious method for abnormal behavior:
supernatural tradition
Deviant behavior as a Battle of "Good" vs. "Evil"
-Deviant behavior was believed to be caused by demonic possession, witchcarft, sorcery
-Treatment included exorcism, torture, beatings, and crude surgeries like trepanation.
-paracelsus and lunacy (The moon and the starts)

*source:
Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach, 4th Edition, David H.Barlow.

Poor girl....Atefah Sahaaleh

Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh (1988 - August 15, 2004) was a 16-year-old schoolgirl who was executed in Iran after being sentenced to death by an Iranian religious judge, Haji Rezai, for having committed "acts incompatible with chastity" according to Sharia law. The execution is controversial because of judicial error [1], where the age of the girl was reported in court documents to be 22 years, while it was in fact 16. It was her fourth conviction, but despite these aggravating circumstances, it is believed that she would not been eligible for execution at the age of 16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateqeh_Rajabi

What can we learn from this story?
We would care less, because she was not a Christian?
We would care less, because she was not American?
We would care less, because she was a femal?
or perhaps,
We would care less, because she deserves to die...

Is she a human? a kid? an innocent? Why would X let this happen again?
Well.. maybe there is not such thing as X...
Want to share this with believer and nonbeliever to think about it...

Chinese version:
在2004年8月15日,一名16岁女孩被绞死在伊朗小工业城镇Neka公共广场. 她以不贞洁罪被判死刑. 她的名字是Atefah Sahaaleh. 唯一的证据是法庭对Atefah本人的逼供. Atefah抱怨法院的法官不公平,但这是她的宿命. 法官Rezai哈吉,他也是当地的毛拉、检察官兼市政府官员、他从伊朗最高法庭获准处死她,她被悬挂在起重机吊臂上, 然后被套上绞索直到死去. 影片运用卧底、目击者和戏剧性重演的方式, 这部影片的故事告诉了在伊朗的毛拉制下，一个普通少女的悲剧.
Source http://www.verycd.com/topics/4933/