amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
So through the lens of your individual philosophy, be it spiritual or even atheistic, tell me all the attributes that you think a 'Holy' person should have. How do they live, what is their personality, what is their behavior at all the times in their life. Also, please don't name an existing character from religious history as a direct reference, I want you formulate an ideal without that level of 'ease.' And if you would refrain from merely mentioning a holy figure from history, we might instead analyze what holiness is on a more particulate level, to see if there is a mechanical pattern to it.
For I think that we often relegate our holy figures to be ossified in considerable stratums of history, for to live and walk the earth in any current moment of reality often seems vilifying, does it not? Therefore to simply name an ancient saint is too easy, as time has washed his bones of the hairyness of reality. Who among the living is not free of public judgement, which celebrity, politician, or spiritual figure? Even the pope might occasionally bat an eye to jar his lookers.
And if possible, don't even bring your religion itself into aid with your description, as to try to get an even more objective sense of this. If you are an atheist, read 'holy' as 'ideal'
For I think that we often relegate our holy figures to be ossified in considerable stratums of history, for to live and walk the earth in any current moment of reality often seems vilifying, does it not? Therefore to simply name an ancient saint is too easy, as time has washed his bones of the hairyness of reality. Who among the living is not free of public judgement, which celebrity, politician, or spiritual figure? Even the pope might occasionally bat an eye to jar his lookers.
And if possible, don't even bring your religion itself into aid with your description, as to try to get an even more objective sense of this. If you are an atheist, read 'holy' as 'ideal'