R-Tarded!

when i say "posing a danger" you should think danish cartoonist. does anyone remember what happen with that?

Posted By: jsimpleton

when i say "posing a danger" you should think danish cartoonist. does anyone remember what happen with that?

No, but you're welcome to expand on it.

Banned. Forum rules prohibit gulliblees (mispelled?) linking to wikipedia.

Wait, how come no one asks me to expand on anything I say?

Posted By: Haoest

Banned. Forum rules prohibit gulliblees (mispelled?) linking to wikipedia.

Not banned. He's not using wikipedia as a source for a fact, but just to expand on his statement.

But you brought up a false banning.... I think the punishement for that is an Athene smiting followed by cannibal lunch... you're the main course.

You'd rather be her arid land with sparse vegetation??

Hey, whatever floats your boat ...

Posted By: nyarfdude

<img alt="Nyarf!" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/andresoforo/c70ea8b4.gif"></img>

What?! I can't use my icon! This is retarded!

Try using an IMG tag

Touché, Udo.

So how about we bring this thread back on track! This quote was on my Buddhist Quote of the Day a while back:
"All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept." - Wei Wu Wei

Any thoughts?

I-concept sounds like selfishness.

That claim maybe true, but it is also the same force that drive progress in the world.

It is indeed! Or a Daoist quote if you're from China.

That's why you're a simpleton.

Posted By: margaret

Touché, Udo.

So how about we bring this thread back on track! This quote was on my Buddhist Quote of the Day a while back:
"All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept." - Wei Wu Wei

Any thoughts?

It sounds a lot like something from The Unborn by Bankei Yotaku. His whole schtick is that the root cause of all suffering is preference for the self. He says that we're all born with a perfect Buddha mind, and as we are raised, it gets clouded and perverted. this page has a good section from the book:

You’re probably all wondering what this unborn Buddha-mind is like.

The Buddha-mind, unborn and illuminating all things with perfect clarity, is like a mirror, standing clear and spotlessly polished. A mirror, as you know, reflects anything that’s before it. Whatever’s placed in front of it, the shape never fails to be reflected, though the mirror has no idea or intention of doing so. And when the object is taken away, the mirror doesn’t reflect it any longer, though it makes no decision to cease reflecting.

Now that’s just how the unborn Buddha-mind works. You see and hear all things, no matter what they are, although you haven’t generated a single thought to see or hear them, because of the vital working of the unborn Buddha-mind each of you receives at birth.

Once you’ve got the principle of this Unborn fixed in your minds, you’re Unborn whether you’re a man or a woman. You are always unborn. You go along living in the Buddha-mind quite unconscious of being a man or woman.

Although you each have Buddha-minds, you’ve deprived yourselves of them because of the mistaken way that you’ve been brought up. A lifetime of learning the wrong things. You still have a Buddha-mind, for all the bad things you’ve learned and the delusions your thoughts create for you. You can’t possibly lose it. It’s just darkened by the illusions caused by your selfish desires and partiality.

Perhaps a comparison will help make this clear.

The sun shines day after day without fail, yet if clouds appear to make the sky overcast, it can’t be seen. It still comes up in the east every morning and goes down in the west. The only difference is that you can’t see it because it’s hidden behind the clouds. The sun is your Buddha-mind, the clouds are your illusions. You are unaware of your Buddha-minds because they’re covered by illusions and can’t be seen. But you never lose them, not even when you go to sleep.

The unborn Buddha-mind that your mothers have given you is thus always there, wonderfully clear and bright and illuminating.

True story: I was one credit shy of being an East Asian religion minor.

What about suicidal people?

Posted By: jsimpleton

i like the golden rule
treat others as you would have them treat you

Actually, GAMES magazine (now defunct, I think) tested several rules within games:

The Iron Rule: do what you want, to whomever you want, whenever you want
The Steel Rule: do what you want to screw your enemies, but help your allies
The Golden Rule: treat others as you wish to be treated
The Platinum Rule: treat others as they wish to be treated

The more complex the game, the higher level rule you needed to use, in order to win.

For instance, early "4X" games (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate), the iron rule was perfect.
For Sim City, however, the Platinum Rule works.. the others tend to fail.
Life is more complex than Sim City.

Are there any official criteria to make an organization a religion?

No, just trying to keep this thread alive.

not paying taxes is my own special way of protesting the iraq war

Posted By: D League

No, just trying to keep this thread alive.

this is the religion thread, it's destined to die. we should just give it a little dignity before it does

Does it believe in JavaJesus?

It's nice to see you too.

Well...let's just say that I'm active in your personal life without you knowin'...

I see what you're doin' mister!

Posted By: nyarfdude

I think we've worn out religious stuff to talk about.

Debate: Catholicism led to the fall of the Roman Empire.

No, they were overrun by fuzzy barbarians.

Posted By: cmseagle

Posted By: nyarfdude

I think we've worn out religious stuff to talk about.

Debate: Catholicism led to the fall of the Roman Empire.

my stance:
corruption and internal strife led to the fall of the Roman Empire

and incompetence (almost forgot that one)