Writer's Block: Going Without
I'm not quite sure what a "cleanse" might be; I'm sure it has something to do with a religious ceremony. I have been baptised, but it wasn't very clean; the water was kind of eh. As for a fast, I've never seen a reason to fast. I figure if there is a higher power out there, would he (for all intents and purposes, I'm going to use "he") really want us to spend our time destroying the body that he gave us? I mean, logically, we were created to praise this being (at least in most major religions) so why would we then punish our bodies by taking away human needs, such as food.
It's like those monks who went out into the desert, stopped eating, barely drank, and deprived themselves of any human interaction/comraderie. Or the people that meditate by emptying their head of all thoughts and emotions, thus creating their own utopia or existence in their heads where nothing truly does exist. Is that these people's idea of Heaven? I mean, I would love to not have my mind racing at a thousand miles per mila-second, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up my free thought, my ability to connect things with anything else.
In the end, the people don't gain anything. If you think about it, it's like if Amy gave Ben a beautiful pet, and the Ben treated the pet with cruel love. He loves the pet and cares if it lives, but sees that the pet should not eat properly, or should be knocks down for wanting some other person's pet. A perfectly animalistic trait, but is seen a horrendous, because the pet should be fasting. That wasn't entirely explained well, but I'm sure you get the point.
It's like those monks who went out into the desert, stopped eating, barely drank, and deprived themselves of any human interaction/comraderie. Or the people that meditate by emptying their head of all thoughts and emotions, thus creating their own utopia or existence in their heads where nothing truly does exist. Is that these people's idea of Heaven? I mean, I would love to not have my mind racing at a thousand miles per mila-second, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up my free thought, my ability to connect things with anything else.
In the end, the people don't gain anything. If you think about it, it's like if Amy gave Ben a beautiful pet, and the Ben treated the pet with cruel love. He loves the pet and cares if it lives, but sees that the pet should not eat properly, or should be knocks down for wanting some other person's pet. A perfectly animalistic trait, but is seen a horrendous, because the pet should be fasting. That wasn't entirely explained well, but I'm sure you get the point.