Oh, Most Holy Ineffable One!

Oh, ineffable one!
Can you teach me to dance like those enthroned on lotus petals?
Oh, most content one!
I’m weary and morose and I seek comfort in your wisdom!
Oh, most magnanimous one!
Can you teach me to rise above my pettiness and be seated among the sages?
Oh, most munificent one!
Can you cure my most horrendous of proclivities, my hoarding of green paper?
Oh, most effulgent one!
I seek to bask in your glow as the lizards on the rocks before the noonday sun

I’m a seeker of truth and have performed a vivisection on my life
I’ve been lead astray, deep into the numinous forest by the sneaky shepherd
Only for my soul to sink into its own depths of sorrow, for I am most unworthy
Oh, Most Righteous One!
I’ve been aberrant in my ways and I’ve heard your admonitions in the sibilant sounds of serpents.
I’m a seeker of pearls and the greatest of which is your most Heavenly Kingdom
The quintessence of my sins is my belief that I could have lived without your guidance
How naïve and absurd! Surely I’ve been lied to by Zarathustra!
My lips have spilled Your illustrious name in arrogance as a blasphemy upon a blasphemy!
Oh, Most Inexorable One!
Can you teach me to be as sturdy as a mountain in the face of adversity?
Oh, Most Holy Ineffable One!
I cannot play the façade of a henotheist any longer!
I must become an anvil to bear the blows of asceticism before I can become a stylite!
To you I must sacrifice it all!

By: Jerry Benjamin Stout

i think your going through a stage of some sort. you will get over it. i didnt enjoy it much, but then again, i dont worship any Gods. im sure other people might like it a tad more.

Good job, I would like to say (most of all) keep up the good work. I have a feeling Thus Spake Zarathustra had a profound impact on you judging by your phraseology and subject matter (alongside other religious texts which use similar images). I must say it was profoundly poetic. I would also like to thank you for posting your name, because I looked around a bit on the web and noticed your exegesis on the relation between the cyclical nature of Buddha's and Christ's coming back to the father (or Father). The Buddhist parable reminds me more of the message displayed in the Pentateuch which stated the 613 (if I recall correctly) Mosaic laws were the ideal to which members of the religion abided by in order to receive Salvation, which would relate much more closely to the Buddhist thought according to your exegesis (I am not well learned in Eastern philosophies please note). Christ, by being the Messiah and fulfilling these laws absolved the followers of Christianity, allowing whoever followed in his likeness to receive his Salvation. I do realize I have generalized for the sake of brevity (please accept my apologies) and I look forward to seeing more of your work and would heartily like to thank you for posting on this forum.

Good job, I would like to say (most of all) keep up the good work. I have a feeling Thus Spake Zarathustra had a profound impact on you judging by your phraseology and subject matter (alongside other religious texts which use similar images). I must say it was profoundly poetic. I would also like to thank you for posting your name, because I looked around a bit on the web and noticed your exegesis on the relation between the cyclical nature of Buddha's and Christ's coming back to the father (or Father). The Buddhist parable reminds me more of the message displayed in the Pentateuch which stated the 613 (if I recall correctly) Mosaic laws were the ideal to which members of the religion abided by in order to receive Salvation, which would relate much more closely to the Buddhist thought according to your exegesis (I am not well learned in Eastern philosophies please note). Christ, by being the Messiah and fulfilling these laws absolved the followers of Christianity, allowing whoever followed in his likeness to receive his Salvation. I do realize I have generalized for the sake of brevity (please accept my apologies) and I look forward to seeing more of your work and would heartily like to thank you for posting on this forum.

Thank you very much! And yes, you do seem to grasp what I was trying to convey in my exegesis on the two parables. Did you read that on religiousforums.net? Because I think that's the only place I've posted that one. But yes, you seemed to have grasped the concept well; the concept of the Buddhist method of striving for salvation which is accumulating wisdom and merit over lifetimes upon lifetimes while Christianity is a one hit wonder.

Thank you very much! And yes, you do seem to grasp what I was trying to convey in my exegesis on the two parables. Did you read that on religiousforums.net? Because I think that's the only place I've posted that one. But yes, you seemed to have grasped the concept well; the concept of the Buddhist method of striving for salvation which is accumulating wisdom and merit over lifetimes upon lifetimes while Christianity is a one hit wonder.

To start off, yes I found it on religiousforums.net, and the concept of Salvation (or Nirvana, which is different in nature but I believe addressing the same problem of Sin and the fall of man, though the Buddhist concept of Nirvana reminds me of the return to Eden, if you will, instead of Christ's absolution) is something I've been looking into for a while. "You mentioned the only place I've posted that one." Which would most likely mean you have other works around. I would much appreciate it, if such holds true, that some might be sent my way; I would love to see what other problems you've been concerning yourself with. Thank you for your time, and your interest in this forum.

To start off, yes I found it on religiousforums.net, and the concept of Salvation (or Nirvana, which is different in nature but I believe addressing the same problem of Sin and the fall of man, though the Buddhist concept of Nirvana reminds me of the return to Eden, if you will, instead of Christ's absolution) is something I've been looking into for a while. "You mentioned the only place I've posted that one." Which would most likely mean you have other works around. I would much appreciate it, if such holds true, that some might be sent my way; I would love to see what other problems you've been concerning yourself with. Thank you for your time, and your interest in this forum.

Do you have an email address? If so you could give it to me and I could e-mail you some of my other essays I've written. I don't have near as many as I used to saved, but I have a few that were saved on my flashdrive after my computer crashed. I have a couple addressing atheists and the nature of Christianity and other such essays. If you are into the philosophy of faith and religious literature, you'd probably like to read them. You could also get a hold of me on AIM as st0ut4thousand, the first 0 is a zero.