RobertMacy wrote in
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:31:33 -0700, nestork
wrote:

...snip...
"You do not have a soul.
Your are a soul.
You have a body."

Black, white, red and yellow are the traditional colours of native
peoples. It's the colours they could make with the materials that
were available in nature, and you'll find that most native art is
done predominantly in these four colours.

I asked him where he got that, and he said that it's on a plaque in
Thunderbird House, and I realized that those three simple lines fully
explain the difference between traditional native "religion" and
Judeo-Christian religion. The former teaches that everything has a
spirit/soul, but those souls may inhabit bodies of different types.
Birds and animals have spirits, and so it is necessary to pay your
respects to the spirit of an animal you kill to eat because it's
spirit is no less important than your own. Judeo-Christian religion
teaches that we are basically bodies, and deep inside us is a soul
which rises to heaven or descends to he11 upon our passing. Two
concepts that are diametrically opposed, but both still provide a
sound framework for spirituality.

That Indian impressed me and I thought I'd share it with the others
in here.

Very glad you shared.

uh, ...my Christian teaching says EXACTLY that phrase. Teachers used
to actually muse that people become too concerned with what is NOT
real [life and bodies] and forget what is real [their soul] Bsically
reminding us that we MUST always remember we are ORIGINALLY souls and
only transitorily in body.

My father said it slightly differently by asking, "Why do people get
so upset about life? Nobody gets through it alive."



Nobody gets out alive...is how I've always stated it.