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But yes, she is in to something important, probably she has understood it way better that we have. Since there is no God, the most important things in life is party....you know, sex and drugs and rock and roll.
I see where you're going, but I'd describe it a little differently - the goal may be personal happiness.
However, in regard to sex, I think it can be coupled with religion. How?
The strongest spiritual experiences bring an individual to what some call ecstatic states, a state of mind and body in which a deep emotion like joy seems to fill your whole body and mind and psyche.
I have (a couple of times) as a witness had that ecstatic experience. Because of one's 'belief' it leaves you convinced that you have been in the presence of 'God'. Nothing unusual about it - quite a few dyed in the wool Christians here, believe they 'talk' to God/Jesus all the time. Its quite a special experience.
But the really interesting thing is that the same 'feeling' can come to you through ecstatic sex. After the Jws freed me (by kicking me out) i experiment a bit (lot) and one day I met a married couple who used to run training sessions in tantric sex. It's sort of loosely based on an esoteric buddhist belief, in which the body is not despised (as it can be in both traditional Buddhism and Christianity) and sex itself is seen as holy, sacred and pure.
I quote from the Adhyardhar' satika Prajnaparamita sutra:
"To say that voluptuousness is pure is a truth of the state of bodhhisattva. To say that desire is pure is a truth of the state of bodhhisattva. ''' to say that physical pleasure is a truth of the state of bodhhisattva.
And why? It is because all dharmas, all creatures, are in essence pure."
Once you free the mind/body/psyche from the chains of shame and guilt some amazing things can happen. I found that the feeling of prolonged joy that I learned to experience during sexual intercourse was identical to that feeling I experienced on only two occasions in prayer.
Funny experience. I went to a talk by a Buddhist monk one night. Wasn't anything profound, a bit of advertising really. So the guy's carrying on about the wonderful feeling you can experience in prayer. So I put my hand up and said I'd experienced that feeling, and then asked why it was that I could obtain the same experience through sex. I copped some flak from the audience, but the really interesting thing was the affect on the monk. He quickly finished his talk and literally ran from the meeting.
I doubt that Trishy Dishy the XJW partygirl is experiencing anything that profound, but at least her life is more interesting than her previous life in the spiritual paradise.
