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  1. Tonstad39

    Eating meat & Buddhism

    The five precepts of buddhism go as follows 1. I undertake the precept to avoid taking the lives of living beings 2. I undertake the precept to avoid taking with witch has not been given 3. I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual misconduct 4. I undertake the precept to refrain from...
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    Ancestors to commemorate

    While in the east, Buddhists commemorate their ansestors in the late summer: Sanghas here in the west have their ghost ceremony in line with when westerners celebrate death by reveling in the horrifying. My sangha is holding its Hungry ghosts ceremony this November 1st and I have some ideas of...
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    What did Pali become?

    looking at the wikipedia page for Pali language among other resources, one thing is apparant. Pali is a dead language not spoken by any ethnic group and seems to only be used in sanghas and Buddhist teachers to understand texts written twenty-three hundred years ago. Why did people stop speaking...
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    Quantifiability of the Dharma

    Dharma, a property intrinsic to the universe itself transends all laws of motion and physics. Dharma facilitates karma and karmic consequence in day to day life while being invisible and unfeelable. While this descriptor sounds vauge and nonspecific, existing science confirms such a thing to...
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    is public scool obsolete?

    I have seen the following video on America's education system and corroborating this with my own experience in the system from K-12, i begin to wonder: Is there any point in public schools being a thing anymore? What purpose does papers with narrow deadlines have in the real world (Blue collar...
  6. Tonstad39

    Reading issues

    I like to write short stories and novels (Usually fantasy) and i have a literary canundrum that goes as follows: I love writing fiction, yet i don't like to read fiction myself. I have never been big into reading fiction (even as a kid) and i would always read almanacs among other reference...
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    Sangha troubles

    The area where I live has three Sanghas and a temple. The temple is in a remote area that's difficult for me to get to as i don't have a car. I am interested in the Therevana school of Buddhism, but the only Therevana sangha in my area is run by a priest who mixes in leftist ideology with...
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    Is it still Buddhism?

    I have recently been sifting through many online recourses on Buddhist cosmology and the reincarnation cycle. They go into detail about 31 realms with giants in mythical continents, gods outside of a flat earth and a universe smaller than the solar system was later discovered to be. These realms...
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    How much of the Bible counts as Mythology?

    I'm not here to bash christianity or to insult individual Christians, but I do have one question that will help me out with the first edition of my upcoming short story compilations: How much of the Bible is Mythological? The main reason I ask is that I don't want to be rewriting the Bible for...
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    My writer's block

    I'm in the process of writing the first book in a series titled "Onstad Mythologies." The stories in each book take a set of myths and apply them to the 21st century society (Think Anubis and Ra as godly has beens in a post Islamist Egypt).I'm working on the first in the series whitch are based...
  11. Tonstad39

    Jesus Christ the monk

    So, I have found a couple of Documentaries that show the supposed life of Jesus in places like Kashmir in India and I know that the Resurrection is very central to Christian theology. What do you as a Christian think of these historical records in terms of your faith?
  12. Tonstad39

    Why is energy gendered?

    I understand that there are two gods in wicca, a god and a goddess but why must energy from the sun and moon have gender? Forces are fundemental to the construction of the universe and acts in ways that make all of life possible, but if it lacks any biology or consiousness than where does...
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    Buddhist scripture

    As someone looking into the Buddhism faith to accept its teachings as true, what is the holy literature associated with the faith as a starting point on the eightfold path?
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    Holy book woes

    It is common pracice across many Abrahamic faiths (for the better in my opinion) to cherry pick selective verses or sections of the respective holy books (bible, qur'an, etc.) to profess as being the words of god as well as a set layout of beliefs, but I want to ask one thing: (mostly to hear...
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    The ONE book?

    As someone considering Buddhism as an active faith and apologies in advance if it sounds like I'm insulting you, but i've noticed many pieces of incoherent nonsense throughout the Bible that serve as an odd mix of fiction and spirituality. Examples: The slaying of Goliath where David slays a...
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    Holy book woes

    It is common pracice across many Abrahamic faiths (for the better in my opinion) to cherry pick selective verses or sections of the respective holy books (bible, qur'an, etc.) to profess as being a divine book, but I want to ask one thing: (mostly to hear the viewpoints) Does a holy book still...
  17. Tonstad39

    Whitch game console is the best CD player

    I consider myself a video game enthusiast and have amassed a large collection of game consoles ranging from Atari VCS all the way up to the PS4 and I was curious about one thing. Out of the various CD compatible game systems; which one is the best at being a CD player?
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    Quantuum mechanics and dieties

    I personally conject that Dietie, if real lie outside 93 billion light year universe and the reason for the various dieties that we've seen on earth is that our universe strattles many international borders corresponding to the many nation states of the many different deities in 26th dimensional...
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    Hello

    My name is Tim and I like many people am Agnostic. I don't folllow any organized religion, but I'm still open minded enough to accept the possibility of higher power being a reality. The thing is, however, sifting through what's fiction and what deities had to simplify to their prophets for the...
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