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  1. Mjolnir

    Meditation is good for you...

    :biglaugh:
  2. Mjolnir

    Nuclear Weapons

    Do tactical nuclear weapons still have the same effect as far as radiation goes?
  3. Mjolnir

    What people deserve

    So is it worth it to search for truth at all if the odds are so overwhelmingly against you?
  4. Mjolnir

    Nuclear Weapons

    Nuclear weapons should not be used in conflict. Whoever wishes to use them at their our present level of technology is stupid. Millions of people will die if one is dropped on a big city in the explosion, not counting all the deaths in latter years resulting from radiation and such. Look at...
  5. Mjolnir

    Torturing terrorists to save innocent lives...

    I am not saying that the terrorist should be comfortable. As I said the terrorist is still a person, they have the right to not be tortured. Do you think all terrorists are so evil? A terrorist to some people is not to other people. If the pain means ripping the fingernails out of the...
  6. Mjolnir

    Meditation

    1. I either do zazen or vipassana. 2. I take long walks in the woods or on the beach doing vipassana. For zazen I generally do it whenever I have the time, I prefer early morning right before the sun comes up or before I go to bed. 3. Sometimes I meditate on a question or issue, other times I...
  7. Mjolnir

    Being fair.

    To reach where the Buddhas he did teach to abandon preconceptions and dualities, so in essence he taught that right and wrong are all in the mind.
  8. Mjolnir

    What do you think that the Buddha's commentaries on modern society would be?

    If Jesus or the Buddha would exist in our time i do not believe their messages would change. Humanity has not solved any of its problems yet, problems that these two warned about. There are still wars, hate, ignorance, suffering, attachment, and all the other ills of humanity. Their messages...
  9. Mjolnir

    Torturing terrorists to save innocent lives...

    So the ends justify the means basically? But the people that you are torturing are still human, it is just wrong are a moral level and practical one.
  10. Mjolnir

    Torturing terrorists to save innocent lives...

    As others have said, these are tactics terrorists use. How can we say torture is wrong if we do it ourselves? It is very hypocritical. Besides that fact I believe that every person, no matter who or what they have done, don't deserve torture. Resorting to torture is basically admitting that the...
  11. Mjolnir

    Welcome to the forum

    Welcome to the forum
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  12. Mjolnir

    Considering all the things that could go wrong...

    As the great Bilbo Baggins once said: It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
  13. Mjolnir

    Good luck to you as well =)

    Good luck to you as well =)
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  14. Mjolnir

    Three Most Influential Religious Texts

    The Bhagavad-Gita challenged my thinking. A collection of the Buddha's parables changed my life. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius showed me reason.
  15. Mjolnir

    Three most influential books

    Brave New World Aldous Huxley- I love this book so much and it really affected me. The questions and problems it raises really make one think. This was the first time I thought of a lot of those things also so it really influenced me. Lord of the Rings Tolkien- My first great love in...
  16. Mjolnir

    What people deserve

    Yet each person has the individual choice.
  17. Mjolnir

    Being fair.

    Did he ever toss out right and wrong altogether? I don't think he ever "tossed" out anything or taught people to.
  18. Mjolnir

    Being fair.

    The Buddha was quite clear that there are consequences to one's actions, but, at the same time he did not say actions that increase suffering are "wrong" and those that decrease suffering are "right". That is a far to black and white picture for what the Buddha taught. He taught the oneness of...
  19. Mjolnir

    What book(s) are you reading now?

    Just started an excellent historical biography Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green. I recently finished Napoleon Bonaparte ( I've been going through a historical military dictator reading phase) and for a fiction read I loved The Road by Cormac McCarthy. One of the most insightful books I've...
  20. Mjolnir

    Asatru Question

    Thoughts, comments on what Thor means to those followers of the Norse gods. To me he symbolizes strength used for good, equality, celebration, right, duty, and a protector of humans. Maybe I am taking a broad stance here on my interpretation of him, but I am not a devout follower. I believe...
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