I don’t think I am demonizing the Fabians, actually. I just think they’ve had much more influence on events than is generally assumed (in fact, most p...
Correct. The negative effects of any cultural and political trends, whatever they may be, should not be ignored. Regarding the Fabians, they had close...
The idea that “Dharmic” systems are in any way “superior” in this (or any other) respect seems unfounded to say the least. The “Dharmic foundation” di...
The Fabians certainly dominated culture and education as this is what they had set out to do from the start. They founded educational and research ins...
The Chariot Analogy was one of the points I made a few months ago: Unfortunately, we can't tell if there is a connection in this particular case. Gree...
Nonsense. Most of the women he slept with were already married. Eighteen-year-old Abha was married to Gandhi's grandnephew Kanu Gandhi. Gandhi told wo...
The diagram is probably not far from the truth. As I said, there is some truth even in New Age .... :smile: That’s why we need to make use of our powe...
The greatest problem seems to have been materialism. Economic, political and cultural movements that made the promotion of materialism part of their p...
The Theosophists were consciously and deliberately concocting a new religion that they claimed to be inspired by "Tibetan Masters" portraits of whom s...
Correct. I've read about it. It raised many eyebrows even at the time and there could be more to it than is "officially" acknowledged. But he preached...
Correct. This is why, as noted by McEvilley, Vasubandhu introduced the concept of alayavijñana ("store-consciousness"). And if you admit a "store-cons...
No need for reference. It is part of any learning process. You start by not being sure and then comes a point where you feel you got it right .... I d...
Very voluminous. And very detailed. (As can also be found in the Hindu Puranas.) Which could be interpreted by some to mean that Buddha threatens peop...
This applies to any other system. Which makes your original question a rhetorical one. People, including Buddha, make many claims about many things. A...
It may be argued that a "couple of centuries" is a long time and "oral tradition" is not infallible record. I think that's exactly what Nirvana is to ...
Not “portraying”, identifying. It’s just common sense. That’s what everyone does in the real world. It’s called situational awareness. England and Fra...
That's a very big "if", though, isn't it? Very little is known about Celtic religion and even less about Celtic spirituality. By the time any records ...
And I gave you my answer. But let me put it slightly differently, though the gist of it is the same. Pa?iccasamupp?da or prat?tyasamutp?da refers to t...
Well, this only demonstrates that you are not familiar with Platonism. That's another misunderstanding of yours. Platonism has been taught and practic...
"Sectarian tendency"? You know absolutely nothing about my religious beliefs, as I have never discussed them publicly and never will! Your criticism o...
You are changing the subject, aren't you? My response was to your claim below: Platonism is one Western spirituality that does have an equivalent to (...
Not Christianity. Your interpretation of it. You seem to have little knowledge of other systems and are just out to put them down as a means to ideali...
Good point. Systems like Platonism advocate detachment or impassibility accompanied by consciousness and bliss, intelligence freed from conditioning b...
Correct. It seems that Buddhism threatens its followers not only with the suffering of hell but also with the horrors of heaven. The message is "Forge...
In Platonism, individual intelligence is an emanation of Universal Intelligence. Though immersed in material or conditioned existence, embodied indivi...
Here are some more passages: Plato’s Theory of Recollection (Anamnesis) is based on the belief that the soul is immortal and lives many lives, which i...
The NT does have passages like the following: The verb used is hypodeiknymi, “to make known (as a warning)”. Of course some (self-appointed) preachers...
I think this a blatant misrepresentation, to be quite honest. The way I see it, Christianity does not "threaten" anyone. It is simply stating what it ...
Of course. The West has never produced anything other than Machiavelli. And India does not have its own Machiavellis. Not true. This is exactly what P...
Suffering is certainly central to Christianity. The goal of Christianity is salvation from suffering and death, which is also the goal of Platonism an...
True. But to be fair, it must be said that the Church was not just a religious organization. It was heir, political, administrative, military, economi...
I'm not "changing the subject" at all. It's a complex issue and you seem to be confused. So I’ll explain it to you one last time. My actual position i...
Well, for starters, there aren't many who actually make that claim. Second, you would want to first see some evidence in support of that claim. Third,...
That’s why I don’t think there is much difference between Buddhism and other systems. Well, when you have a number of competing systems, I think it is...
In The Shape of Ancient Thought, McEvilley makes some rather interesting observations on the close parallels between Greek and Indian thought: McEvill...
Sure. And, presumably, to really understand Nirvana one must experience it first. But I think the difficulty tends to arise from what seems to be a mu...
Absolutely. It’s a well-known fact that propaganda consists of a mixture of truth and falsehood. The fact that you got one sentence right does NOT mea...
I agree that things can get easily misconstrued, especially when we are dealing with ancient texts. The “melting away of I and mine”, etc., seems fair...
As I said, more obvious disinformation, distortion, and black propaganda. And straw men! The FACT is, I never said it was OK. What I said is that it d...
Good point. Human consciousness can’t jump from "enslavement" to "liberation". At least in normal circumstances, there must be a lengthy process of em...
As usual, obvious propaganda, distortion, and disinformation. Posting a few irrelevant pictures might make your argument more “credible” among Finnish...
It may well have been your original comment. However, your following comments were exactly as I stated: 1. After which you admitted that Finland isn't...
You first seemed to suggest that Finland’s demographic outlook is somehow better than China’s, and now you are admitting that it isn’t. Finland may or...
I think you are clutching at straws there. You may not realize this, but if replacement level fertility is above 2, then anything below 2 is below rep...
Yes. With a a microscopic population of 5.5 million, fertility rate of about 1.37, and average age of 40+, Finns are definitely in the best position t...
I don’t know if that has anything to do with Nietzsche, but I think Jung is making a good point. The main problem seems to be that people want to be e...
I think the usual suspect for everything bad these days is the West. Slavery, genocide, global warming, you name it, it's all the fault of the West. L...
Obviously, it is not in Russia's long-term interest to be too close to China as it might end up as a Chinese satellite if it doesn't watch it. But Rus...
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