I was watching a news video online last night. It was showing how in Japan they were having interment services for ‘pins and needles’. One would bring theirs to this place and stick it in a bed of tofu. There were priests, musicians and all the original paraphernalia that are used for when a human dies. One priest said that they believe that inanimate objects have souls.
Based on that statement would your watch, car, or toilet paper also have a soul? How about an empty bottle of Windex, old car oil, or used light bulbs? If this were the case then they would be having non-stop memorial services for everything in life. If one can have a funeral service for ‘pins and needles’ then why not have one for an old tp roll?
I wonder if you never took the pins out of their packaging if they might still be ‘alive’ and not need a service for the dead. Or do only good, used pins get real honor in the end? I mean in India the cow has right of way everywhere. Maybe in Japan they should set a law that pins are not to be violated or misused.
To the Western world this may seem outlandish or even laughable but it is being done. The Catholics venerate dead saints, India has their sacred cow and Japan has their pins and needles. What do you worship? Is it dead or alive? Is it animate or inanimate? Can it move or breathe? Whatever you worship is your god. Is your god big enough to save you in your utmost time of need?
If you become so busy worshipping the dead or in this case, the unused, then you wouldn’t have a lot of time to admire or enjoy the living things. It would be like worshipping the created not the Creator. Who do you worship? Why? Is what you adulate because that it what you were told is the right thing to worship or that is what your parents worshipped? And were you told how and why to do it this way to whatever it is?
Have you ever questioned the answers to see if they really were true?
"The unanswered questions aren't nearly as dangerous as the unquestioned answers."
Based on that statement would your watch, car, or toilet paper also have a soul? How about an empty bottle of Windex, old car oil, or used light bulbs? If this were the case then they would be having non-stop memorial services for everything in life. If one can have a funeral service for ‘pins and needles’ then why not have one for an old tp roll?
I wonder if you never took the pins out of their packaging if they might still be ‘alive’ and not need a service for the dead. Or do only good, used pins get real honor in the end? I mean in India the cow has right of way everywhere. Maybe in Japan they should set a law that pins are not to be violated or misused.
To the Western world this may seem outlandish or even laughable but it is being done. The Catholics venerate dead saints, India has their sacred cow and Japan has their pins and needles. What do you worship? Is it dead or alive? Is it animate or inanimate? Can it move or breathe? Whatever you worship is your god. Is your god big enough to save you in your utmost time of need?
If you become so busy worshipping the dead or in this case, the unused, then you wouldn’t have a lot of time to admire or enjoy the living things. It would be like worshipping the created not the Creator. Who do you worship? Why? Is what you adulate because that it what you were told is the right thing to worship or that is what your parents worshipped? And were you told how and why to do it this way to whatever it is?
Have you ever questioned the answers to see if they really were true?
"The unanswered questions aren't nearly as dangerous as the unquestioned answers."
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