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    a letter to the muslims

    Lloyd and LV, Your exchanges reminded me of this way of taking what makes sense from all sources. "What the Buddha Taught" by the Venerable Walpola Rahula. This an excerpt is from that text. "The Buddha once visited a small town called Kesaputta in the kingdom of Kosala. The inhabitants of...
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    a letter to the muslims

    Lloyd and LV, Your exchanges reminded me of this way of taking what makes sense from all sources. "What the Buddha Taught" by the Venerable Walpola Rahula. This an excerpt is from that text. "The Buddha once visited a small town called Kesaputta in the kingdom of Kosala. The inhabitants of...
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    First Ever RF Chain Letter

    I just got one from my step-daughter. Nice story, but it ended with "Pass this message to 7 people except you and me. You will receive a >miracle tomorrow. > >If you choose not, then you refuse to bless someone else."
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    First Ever RF Chain Letter

    I alienated one of my favorite nieces by telling her what I thought of chain letters, namely that they are powertrips done on strangers. I usually write back to the person who sends one to me, ask them to not fill up the internet with this junk. I got one from a friend's child, who was doing it...
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    Pacifism: Noble or Foolish?

    I am a long-time pacifist. Filed my request for conscientious objector status in 1968 (in response to being drafted), on religious grounds. I think there is some confusion in this thread between pacifism (a stance on the correctness of wars between nations) and passive-ism (personal...
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    Does evolution cause you problems?

    To me, evolution is an elegant theory which presumes that all life is one, and asserts that creation is ongoing. It doesn't deny a Creator at all. Theology is filled with vague concepts of revealed Truth, and is more puzzling than anything else. All based on the arrogant notion that men can...
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    Job

    Just an update- my cousin is at home now. Using a walker, chestplate with two steel rods holding his head stationary, has to wear that for 3 months. The RR investigator reported that his truck "struck the front of a moving train." What are the odds, that you can hit a train with your passenger...
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    Job

    My step-daughter went into a coma from e-coli infection in 2000, woke up a month later with both legs and most of her fingers amputated. I told her "God must have a purpose for you, your life was spared." Yesterday morning, my cousin's truck was hit by a train, killing his girlfriend. He's in...
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    Job

    More like a morality play, arranged for God's amusement. Bad reviews can be hell! And that's why you say grace three times a day, to be reminded of what separates you from the fiery lake.
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    Job

    I think it's important for everyone to read this chapter. You will be tested later, hah! Existentialists like Job and the Myth of Sisyphus. Both are great allegories for the ambiguous results of striving and persistence. Have you considered the etymology of the word "job?" We commit...
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    Evolution and God

    Hmmm...that was a dense 17 pages to read through. I usually agree with the original poster, that evolution can be looked at as the way ongoing creation proceeds. The people who think that abiogenesis or science somehow deny God, tend to be ones that believe in absolute, revealed truth, and...
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    a letter to the muslims

    I have other questions for muslims. Do you think it would be more appropriate to start another thread, or continue this one?
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    a letter to the muslims

    I have other questions for muslims. Do you think it would be more appropriate to start another thread, or continue this one?
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    Hu'an buddhism

    But did you read anything that's over there, MV? That "virtual zen temple" presents hundreds of quotations, many poems and stories, which are not buddhist. At least, to my mahayana way of understanding. But I'm attracted to it, none-the-less. Much like the old TV show, it matters little whether...
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    Hu'an buddhism

    If I follow, then, zen buddhism originated from bodhidharma in China. Ch'an is buddhism mixed with taoism and confucionism. Kung fu was practiced as a meditation. Chan no longer exists in China. I found another link to share, Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun...
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    Universism

    Thanks, Maize. I'd never heard of this group. Here's a link to their site http://www.universist.org/ I think this touches on a lot of why modern thinkers have trouble with traditional religions.
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    Jesus (Yeshua): God, Son of God, A Prophet, The Messiah, Not Sure, None of the Above

    There was a book many years ago entitled "The Passover Plot" which argued that Jesus planned to fake his death and ressurection. Perhaps there was a drug in the vinegar that made Jesus appear to die, or "angel" alien doctors brought him back to life in the tomb and they all beamed up to "heaven?"
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    Hu'an buddhism

    Thanks for the insight. By the last (third) season, none of the sayings seemed buddhist. Archery as meditation, "the archer, the bow, the arrow, the target are one" I can see as buddhist. Likewise, the thoughts that killing is wrong, that one should seek to do no harm, perhaps that one should...
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    Hu'an buddhism

    An example: (from episode 38) "I looked deep into myself and saw. . . evil." - Young Caine "'Do you sometimes feel love. . . and joy? Do you sometimes feel pride in what you have accomplished?. . . And do you sometimes feel good?. . . But the threads that make up our human nature are two...
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    Hu'an buddhism

    Thanks for your comments, lilithu. I'm interested in the Ch'an, which you seem to equate with zen. I've been reading through the quotes from these old TV shows (have read the first 40 episodes), and they intrigue in part because the character is forced to resort to self-defense so much. And...
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