When you need big answers to big questions, where do you go? Last night Simon Amstell hosted Never Mind the Buzzcocks with Jermaine Jackson as one of his guests. Jermaine Jackson, a convert from Christianity to Islam, has been quoted as saying Islam gives him the answers Christianity never could. In his characteristic style, Simon Amstell could not resist commenting on this apparent jumping about across religions, and remarked along the lines of -
each to his own, that's no problem
whatever gives you the answers you need.
He personally, he said, gets his from Google.
Although the God of Google was summoned for comic effect, does it say something more profound about the level of question we permit ourselves to ask these days? But if you haven't stopped asking the big questions, where do you get your answers? If you have no specific religious framework to offer you the answers you need to these 'big questions', where do you go?
Within?
Your own spiritual guru?
The Mind-Body-Spirit section of Borders?
Google..?
4 comments:
what happened to my spelling! here is my response again!
a good question....i do find myself frequenting the mind body spirit section of the new Cardiff Borders alot! Also i find that life itself guides you too. Kinda like you may read something and comprehend it at a cerebral level but then the actual expereince of life is what cements it in to reality.
I'm still kind of unsure where i exactly go...probably a mixture of going within, reading, being in life and talking with those who are spiritually open i guess.
Thanks, Juliette. And when you find life 'cementing' something like this, how would you explain that? Who or what is 'guiding' you, do you think?
i guesss for me it is inner intuition and understanding. My connection to my higher self which is my connection to God if you like. Though i believe God is within us rather than without. The part of oneself, the universe, which sense the whole, knows we are all interconnected and guides us from this level rather than from our own limited perspective. :-) X
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