Here's my contrib of a pleasant thread regarding things in nature

[sprinkleeninow]

that my religion magnifies: 🕵

"Flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra-la!"🎶
💐🌹🌷🌼🌸🌻🌺💮🥀

[Major Nikon]

1. My farts smell like potpourri

I credit my gut bacteria more than divine influence.

[guillaumeb]

2. Remind me not to buy the Major Nikon brand of potpourri.

Even if it IS on sale.

[sprinkleeninow]

4. See?

Raunchiness. But that's your prerogative.

[Bretton Garcia]

7. Affluence? Afflatus?

There was actually an ancient Greek mathematician who suggested such things. The divine breath caused by beans.

[Major Nikon]

10. I would never say it isn't possible

[Bretton Garcia]

13. Pythagoras

The soul was thought to be an internal air, or breath. So Pythagoras did not allow his disciples to eat beans. Because of the danger they would fart out their soul.

Religion is so beautiful, and makes so much sense.

[Major Nikon]

16. I can certainly see why

I’ve been in a few elevators with folks speaking to Jesus.

[guillaumeb]

3. Wildflowers blooming are the inspiration for stained glass windows. eom

[sprinkleeninow]

5. Many thanks for that divine note and much love my dear bro,

Guillaume.

Vous êtes une bouffée d'air frais.

[guillaumeb]

6. Je te remercie mille fois.

I was sitting in my garden last summer, trying to meditate, and while I was sitting there, I noticed for the first time how much the garden resembled a cathedral, with the trees serving as pillars, and the flowers as windows.


And I had a thought that perhaps one element inspiring the designers and builders of cathedrals might have been to invoke the metaphorical Garden of Eden.

[Bretton Garcia]

8. Or actual gardens

[guillaumeb]

9. Certainly, but if one is designing and building a Catholic cathedral,

the connection with the Biblical garden might be one inspiration.

[Bretton Garcia]

14. Actual gardens inspired the Garden of Eden

Some ancient lord had a garden, back in the first days of agriculture. He let superstitious ignorant monkies, chimps, hang out there, and eat. Until they developed knowledge, and had to go out and grow their own.

[guillaumeb]

15. "Grow their own"?

Was this ancient lord named Tommy Chong?

[sprinkleeninow]

11. 😍

[guillaumeb]

12. Another view, by a far more gifted writer:

[edhopper]

19. Love that song

I did not know it was Wakeman who did the piano (I should have, being a big YES fan).

Wakeman also did the piano for Bowie's "Life on Mars".

[sprinkleeninow]

22. 💓

[uriel1972]

17. Another element was the money to be gained from religious tourism...

Or should I say pilgrimages to see the relics of saints.

The competition for such pilgrimages caused the theft of relics from nearby centres of worship. The rationale being 'If God did not want us to have them, we would not have been able to take them'

Oh the dark joys of the Medieval Times. Then the Renaissance came and humanism sprouted in Europe once more, Damn dirty hippies.

[uriel1972]

18. Sorry to be a downer... but

whilst I appreciate and am in awe of the wonders of this universe, I cannot look away from it's grotesque horrors.

For every butterfly there is an eye-worm
For every rainbow there is gangrene and tetanus.

Are they not created/caused by the same thing. Are we hypocrites if we do not bask in their wondrous presence too?

[edhopper]

20. Of course

I think us godless atheists are equally able to enjoy nature's beauty without heaven in our eyes.

[sprinkleeninow]

21. I have caring 💞 for all my sisters and brothers in humanity

regardless of what positions they hold.

It's not for me to say, or, God forbid, judge.

Nature's beauty and wonderment is a gift to be enjoyed by all.

[edhopper]

23. True

just being clever.

Cherry Blossoms are among the most beautiful sights I know.

[sprinkleeninow]

24. Wanted to give you a personal one of these but

hesitation showed up:
😍

Ahhh. Already their fragrance is transporting me up and away.