Comparative Religion: Godmen

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    thank u very much acting in a childish way, way to prove my previous post. im outt here for the night, gonna watch some hockey.

    lol, All I've done Mets is paraphrase what you said to me.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Here we are, as per wikipedia:

    On the night Siddhartha(Gotama/Gautama Buddha) was conceived, Queen Maya dreamt that a white elephant with six white tusks entered her right side, and ten lunar months later Siddhartha was born from her right side

    Well done. Oh, and there's another story, about a lotus....or was it a tree?

    The thing that most stuck out, in my mind, when I read the book about Buddha (and damned if I can remember the name of it, but it was published around 1940), was that somewhere around the age of 33, he went out on a carriage ride with his father and saw poor people for the first time. He saw death, and decay. And it bothered him. He went home and he pondered it for a few hours. And then suddenly he saw that all is meaningless, as dust, except for enlightenment. His realizations were basically The Sermon on the Mount mixed with Ecclesiastes, except that there was a lotus in there somewhere....and an elephant.

    But otherwise, I still agree with you!
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    thats cool, i knew where u were coming from cate. why stick with something when everyone just bashes it all the time, its gulit by assocation if your religious these days

    no, you dont appear to know where i'm coming from based on the above comment.
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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    catefrances wrote:
    knowing me, what do you think lucy?

    I would not presume to know what you think, but I am guessing you are saying you are too thick skinned to let words upset you.
    It's not that stuff that gets me.
    I have a client who has been probably falsely accused having sex with a 15 yr girl, (he is 78) and his life is presently a hell made by a few simple words.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Bu2 wrote:
    Well done. Oh, and there's another story, about a lotus....or was it a tree?

    The thing that most stuck out, in my mind, when I read the book about Buddha (and damned if I can remember the name of it, but it was published around 1940), was that somewhere around the age of 33, he went out on a carriage ride with his father and saw poor people for the first time. He saw death, and decay. And it bothered him. He went home and he pondered it for a few hours. And then suddenly he saw that all is meaningless, as dust, except for enlightenment. His realizations were basically The Sermon on the Mount mixed with Ecclesiastes, except that there was a lotus in there somewhere....and an elephant.

    But otherwise, I still agree with you!

    Was it the Lotus Sutra, pertaining to Sakyamuni Buddha?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Sutra
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Was it the Lotus Sutra, pertaining to Sakyamuni Buddha?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Sutra

    Only, I prefer the Kama Sutra...
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Before I start a new thread about it, does anyone recall a thread about the movie "Deliver Us From Evil" about Father Oliver O'Grady that molested/raped a bunch of kids as young as 6 years old, meanwhile the Catholic Heirarchy just moved him around California knowing that he was raping kids?
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    lucylespian wrote:
    I would not presume to know what you think, but I am guessing you are saying you are too thick skinned to let words upset you.
    It's not that stuff that gets me.
    I have a client who has been probably falsely accused having sex with a 15 yr girl, (he is 78) and his life is presently a hell made by a few simple words.

    way way off base luce. i am well aware of the damage words can do. i am not thick skinned at all. but if someone is gonna start a war of words with me they better bring it cause i will bury them without remorse. :D

    i don't think people realise what harm words can do to the psyche.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Before I start a new thread about it, does anyone recall a thread about the movie "Deliver Us From Evil" about Father Oliver O'Grady that molested/raped a bunch of kids as young as 6 years old, meanwhile the Catholic Heirarchy just moved him around California knowing that he was raping kids?

    oh shit ryan. i just saw the lovely father oliver on telly the other night. i can't remember the context though, dammit.
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  • Ahnimus
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    catefrances wrote:
    i don't think people realise what harm words can do to the psyche.

    Or, what harm psyche can do to words. Like psychosis, I get in trouble for using the word, but it's not meant to harm, nor is the word Idiot, Queer, Faggot, etc.. etc... it's social psyches that harm the words by interpreting the words as harmful.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    It states on the main AMT page that Ahnimus posted last. But when I go to the bottom of the last page, it's Cate's post.

    ?

    *EDIT* Sorry, my PC is slow (no comments from the peanut gallery, please)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Or, what harm psyche can do to words. Like psychosis, I get in trouble for using the word, but it's not meant to harm, nor is the word Idiot, Queer, Faggot, etc.. etc... it's social psyches that harm the words by interpreting the words as harmful.

    it's the intent with which the word is delivered ryan.
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  • Ahnimus
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    catefrances wrote:
    oh shit ryan. i just saw the lovely father oliver on telly the other night. i can't remember the context though, dammit.

    I just watched the move last night, sad, sad movie. I almost cried and I'm a cold-hearted bastard.

    http://www.deliverusfromevilthemovie.com/index_flash.php
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • lucylespian
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    catefrances wrote:
    way way off base luce. :D

    i don't think people realise what harm words can do to the psyche.

    Exactly why I did not want to presume to know your thoughts !

    I don't think I will be smearing mud on my face, but i might be smearing cheese on crackers, does that count ?????????
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    lucylespian wrote:
    Exactly why I did not want to presume to know your thoughts !

    I don't think I will be smearing mud on my face, but i might be smearing cheese on crackers, does that count ?????????

    NO! it does not.

    though you may get points if you're naked or in a robe. :D
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  • Ahnimus
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    I watched a video last night of a girl that was kicked out of school in Arlington for claiming to be an atheist.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I watched a video last night of a girl that was kicked out of school in Arlington for claiming to be an atheist.

    Oops it was Oklahoma

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2vf_nijscc
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    for someone who doesn't believe in God or religion, you sure do love to post about it.
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.
  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    catefrances wrote:
    you're not gonna irradicate religion and it will take a personal crisis for a believer to change his/her ways.

    God will always be around, so ryan will just have to get used to it. :)
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    catefrances wrote:
    NO! it does not.

    though you may get points if you're naked or in a robe. :D


    I can definitely do the robe thing, and there may be chanting. Way to cold to be naked, probably.

    I'm really thinknig of a burning man, maybe I can stuff cracker in a few places so he goes off a bit at a time, or little petrol bombs.

    PAgans need to reclaim their festivals , sort of in teh vein of ...

    "Charles Manson stole this from the Beatles, we're stealing it back "
    Music is not a competetion.

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