What do you understand under the term "purity" in your religious or spiritual practice. Does this word play a big role in your belief system? Explain if you can. Thank you!

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I reckon I kinda must have got it backward.

Stead of looking for the essence of purity...

I been looking for the purity of essence.

To me purity is a state of the heart.
It's staying untainted by the things around you.
Walking through the worst that life can hand you and still being able to love people and the life you are give.
Not being burdened by regrets, aner, dissapointments, and unforgiveness.
I guess just not carrying the yuck of the world around with you

Well thats just what it is to me.

Josie, you have done it again.

You are the purest of people I have ever come in touch with, and you express your purety in such succint and befitting way.

I really am in awe of you. You are uneducated, but your thoughts are solid and logical. You are a woman of common origin, but your values are in perfect harmony with your philosophy. You are almost sub-literate, but you express your thoughts with brilliant clarity.

I am not in love with you, but I AM in awe of you. You are the most unconventionally pure person I have ever known, and you carry it so well.

You are so funny, I have no idea whether to be insulted at my dumbness. Nah I am just joking, but I didn't understand half your words
No I am a long way from pure, but I dont let the bothers around me affect my life or happiness,

My education is very limited but I see life everyday, a lot of it isnt nice, the only way through it is to look at the good parts and tread over the rest, if you stumble just pick yourself up , wipe off the yuck and keep smiling.
Not only that, but when you look back, it's not really that bad, so you might as well laugh about it from the beginning.

Funny girl! In an other thread by you, I think one of the prostitute threads of yours, I said that social taboos don't stick to you, you repel thousands of years' worth of accumulated social yucks.

You said the same thing about yourself here, before my embarrassing compliment.

When I think of you, I think of Annie Hall and of other women in literary history, who adore a smart erudite intellectual, while these girls are young bread-girls or match-girls, (ones walking around with a tray of buns in upscale restaurants -- no more seen) and then the girl somehow gets to go to college and becomes a professor much more respected and knowledgeable than the old man.

Well, your purity and naivite does not do a good enough job trying to cover your high intellect -- it's not you who is trying to hide it, but your bright optimism and outlook on life.

Once you manage to become old and a moody cynic like me, you'll also become a fearsome intellectual, just watch. Something like Sophie here on these threads.

The way I look at it, and I don't mind putting it out in the open, you got your purity, I got my humour, and Sophie got her oversensitivity. All of us here on the forums, not just these three, are struggling, with what, I don't know exactly, but most likely it's the same thing. You struggle this demon, what- or whoever it is, the only way you can, as we all do. There is no difference in there. But your way is somehow attractive, and now I am talking on a much deeper level than words like "naivite" or "wisdom" would convey.

Ok, I am going to pass on this as I still dont understand it..
But We are all different which is great otherwise nothing would ever get done..
LOL I have an IQ of 130 whatever that means, I was supposed to be a vet but decided I wanted to leave school and work on the farm. I can work Numbers in my head quicker than a lot of people can use a calculator but on paper I cant work them I can tell my children answers but cant show them how i got them. I have little to no common sense and cannot turn directions around in my head to find my way home.. I can find solutions to most things but do dumb things. So who knows we are all very strange creatures

The thing I didnt want was a high pressure life, I spent one day in a veterinary clinic and couldnt go back, it was so organised and regimented.

I just wanted pure and simple, and thats what I have . I love life

You are a wonderful person Josie and I agree with your view about purity and happiness! I chose grad school instead of vet school because I didn't want the high stress life. I struggled with it until I let go of the anger, distrust, and regrets in my life. Seems opening my heart to heal helped me in so many ways!!! Thanks to you for the inspiration you give here

Fireflysgirl and Josie, my story is carbon copy of yours. I was going to become a vet too, but Viet Nam was too scary. So I enrolled in Vet school, because I love animals, but when a mosquito I was just about ready to immunize against the West Nile virus bit me, I got angry and I kept on biting all dogs that were brought in for me to see that day.

i got disbarred from the profession, and now I make a very meagre living performing circumcisions on Frum Orthodox pets.

The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. My boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now, so let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all" and he hung up.

I agree, slowhand. Fiction is sometimes stranger than truth. But fiction still needs elements of reality, like preserving the sanctity of the privately owned assets of the Coca Cola soft drink company, even when your company is under enemy fire. Under friendly fire by a friendly enemy, so friendly that they wear the same uniforms.

Purity: Peace, Love, kind thoughts, kind deeds, cleanliness, holiness, good intentions, compassion, forgiveness,grace,wisdom,




Or the word could be used to describe some really well made drugs.