ajay0
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You can't cut off a yak's head and put it on a headless cow's body and pretend it is alive. All you did was dismember the cow and the yak
My point exactly.
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You can't cut off a yak's head and put it on a headless cow's body and pretend it is alive. All you did was dismember the cow and the yak
I don't know if it is your point. Because this is what syncretism does, it cuts to pieces various traditions and tries to put them together. That is not spirituality, that's Frankenstein's Monster.My point exactly.
I don't know if it is your point. Because this is what syncretism does, it cuts to pieces various traditions and tries to put them together. That is not spirituality, that's Frankenstein's Monster.
Because cultural appropriation is theft. It's taking something that doesn't belong to you and misusing it. You cannot steal the myths of another culture and shoehorn them into your worldview.Why are you so insistent on focusing on the external alone, and not on the internal
You mean the way Christians stole Jewish myths or the way the Jews stole the flood myth etc?Because cultural appropriation is theft. It's taking something that doesn't belong to you and misusing it. You cannot steal the myths of another culture and shoehorn them into your worldview.
if people could explain to me the different Buddhas
Good if updated:
The Buddha taught that love, dear, is the cause of suffering, but the gamblers, and those believing them more, without own investigations, haven't be much satisfied by that. Just that no ine whould confuse the teacher with blind wandering around ones.
Having applied himself to
what was not his own task,
and not having applied himself
to what was,
having disregarded the goal to grasp
at what he held dear,
he now envies those who kept after themselves,
took themselves to task.
And they way Baha'is stole from just about everybody else too. I am not beholden to Christian and Jewish myths so you are barking up the wrong tree here. I was going to make a thread about how the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist and other religions rely on cultural appropriation and stolen identities. Just about all are guilty. But because all are guilty doesn't make it right. Culture and tradition can be rooted in other things and it is learning to appreciate differences not assimilating them that leads to peaceful co-existenceYou mean the way Christians stole Jewish myths or the way the Jews stole the flood myth etc?
Culture evolves and appropriation happens because no culture evolved in a vacuum.And they way Baha'is stole from just about everybody else too. I am not beholden to Christian and Jewish myths so you are barking up the wrong tree here. I was going to make a thread about how the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist and other religions rely on cultural appropriation and stolen identities. Just about all are guilty. But because all are guilty doesn't make it right. Culture and tradition can be rooted in other things and it is learning to appreciate differences not assimilating them that leads to peaceful co-existence
Are you familiar with the term "weeaboo"?Culture evolves and appropriation happens because no culture evolved in a vacuum.
To say that we should start from scratch with our cultural stories is just to insist that the wheel need be reinvented for the cog or the bike to evolve
NoAre you familiar with the term "weeaboo"?
If even told and knowing...I am but a moth, smitten by the flame.
If I dive in, can I be put to blame?
Regards Tony
If even told and knowing...
*brsssss...*"Love’s a stranger to earth and heaven too;
In him are lunacies seventy-and-two."
Regards Tony
Because cultural appropriation is theft. It's taking something that doesn't belong to you and misusing it.
Look to the ones that are not tied to the culture and can adapt to different cultures, like Buddhism does.@The Reverend Bob ,
This thread speaks to me (shout out to @Samantha Rinne) because I too find inspriation from many different sources. I can't help it. It's in my nature; it's how my brain works. I am highly syncretic.
Do you have any advice for someone like me to avoid cultural piracy and the pitfalls of syncretism?
I don't think my path, the path of an iconoclast is for everyone. You could read some Zizek on ideology@The Reverend Bob ,
This thread speaks to me (shout out to @Samantha Rinne) because I too find inspriation from many different sources. I can't help it. It's in my nature; it's how my brain works. I am highly syncretic.
Do you have any advice for someone like me to avoid cultural piracy and the pitfalls of syncretism?