{"id":22,"date":"2011-10-20T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/smccarthy\/?p=22"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:44:22","slug":"non-linear-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/smccarthy\/2011\/10\/20\/non-linear-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-linear Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started talking about non-western religions in class on Tuesday. \u00a0I really don\u2019t know much about them, other than the little I learned from the movie Eat, Pray, Love.<\/em> The thing that fascinated me the most was how non-western religions are non-linear and believe in reincarnation. The Hindu gods were especially fascinating.<\/p>\n

The Hindu gods are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Brahma is the creator god. Brahma has multiple faces and arms, and carries a spoon and a string of beads. He is the beginning of the circle of life for creation. The second is Vishnu. Vishnu is the god that preserves order and keeps chaos at bay. He carries objects like shells and halos to represent the circular order. He also is known to have avatars (incarnation of Vishnu). The last god in the Hindu Trinity is Shiva. Shiva is the god of death and destruction.\u00a0 Shiva is normally seen with a ring of fire around him, which represents cremation. It is also said that Shiva is the god of sex. This represents procreation and the connection of the circle with Brahma.<\/p>\n

I had never heard of any of these but for some reason they fascinate me. I was trying to think of someway to relate this to Christianity, which is my personal faith, but I couldn\u2019t. This non-linear pattern completely sets them apart.<\/p>\n

My thoughts were corrected on Tuesday as well about karma. I thought karma was if you did something bad, something bad would eventually happen to you. What goes around, comes around.<\/em> I learned that karma is actually how all things are connected and the belief that when I do something wrong, it doesn\u2019t effect just me, it effects everything in the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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