Title: Spiritual Wonderer

Gender: Male

Age: 43

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Chinese Sign: Wood Snake

Location: Lafayette (very near Boulder), Colorado

I've always been a non-spiritual person, or, more to the point, an anti-religious person. It always seemed to me that Christians were focusing on the wrong thing: the “resurrection”. It's almost like believing in the resurrection (or saying you do) is a Get Out Of Jail Free card for Christians: If they believe in the “resurrection”, then they're free to sin and they get “saved” and go to “heaven”.  What should be the focus of Christians is the teachings of Jesus. He taught love, compassion, caring for the poor. Some pretty good stuff. Why don't more people focus on what Jesus did when he was alive rather than on his death? It incenses me that a certain world leader who calls himself a Christian doesn't follow Jesus's teachings at all. My own belief is that Jesus was a great, wise, loving man who died a brutal death. END OF STORY. I just can't buy into the whole “resurrection” thing, or that he was the son of god. He was one of those rare, very special human beings who come along, like Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, Jr.

So anyway, come to find out recently that perhaps I'm more spiritual than I thought, and a lot of what I believe is fitting right into the Buddhist philosophy. So I'm trying to figure out how to nurture this budding fascination with Buddhism. If anyone knows of essential readings I should absorb, or any advice at all, please let me know.

“If Jesus came back, and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.” –Max von Sydow in Hannah and Her Sisters

“that's all, and when [jazz] was great music it was great art and it didn't have anything at all to do with labels and who says mozart is by definition better than sonny rollins and to whom.”  –ralph j. gleason

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