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Should terms denoting religious identity be exempt from being meaningful? They're not "friendly" toward other religions, they just don't give a shit a...

Brother Wood, don't be daft.

Pffft. My experience with you informs me otherwise.

Inform yourself better. They're actually perfectly ready to leave you behind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act

Treating people like objects might seem smart to you, but what if they prove to be alive and objectify you?

The world is made of rotting things.

Vote for rightwingers, obviously. Greed and hatred, and believing that greed and hatred are good.

Then why don't you do something in that direction?

Indeed. Apparently, the solution is in lowering one's expectations about mankind, and renounce one's humanist sensitivities.

We don't have both sides on this forum, as far as I know. I haven't seen any vocal anti-vaccers here. From what I have seen, there are only the vocal ...

A belief system that tells you that everyone is equally qualified for the highest attainments is surely not the right one. Buddhism has no "no child l...

With enough mental acrobatics, certainly.

Do you know of any religion that has ever been genuinely friendly toward another religion? I don't. By "genuinely friendly" I mean that in its doctrin...

Can an amateur learn how to enjoy "academical" philosophical discussions? No. One either has it, or one doesn't. To begin with, learn the proper meani...

I really wouldn't know, I fell asleep soon after the beginning.

Put your money where your mouth is.

And then, instead of dying at the stakes and from persecution, people would be dying from boredom. The horror!

And so would religions.

Batrachomyomachia!

Not at all. Rather, my intuition is that such an individual or group who is certain to have found The Truth will protect it, seek to keep it for thems...

Good luck with your amazingly constructive attitude!

That's too simplistic. I find that I distrust people in positions of power who pretend to be friendly toward me, but who also have at their disposal l...

The "them", the "those people". Those in the title of your thread. *sigh* You know, it would help your case to spell properly. Mixing up verbs like yo...

You owe him an apology!

Dude, look at what he said in the sentence right before the one you quoted:

I'm mirroring their confidence.

You do realize that he said he got vaccinated?

It becomes your problem if you set out to change their minds.

I have the impression that you think of Buddhist teachings as having the same coercive, commanding, universally binding nature as those in Christianit...

In the process of the complete cessation of suffering? Do you have a canonical reference for that? This is a folk belief in karma, Thanissaro Bhikkhu ...

People who aren't karmically predisposed to worry about karma don't lose sleep over karma, so the above concern is moot. However, I sense from this po...

Same here. I gather that because I didn't exibit an enthusiastic belief in vaccination, that automatically made me an anti-vaxxer in their eyes. And f...

You'll need to unpack this, spell out the assumptions you're working with. Why should orthodoxy entail a religious responsibility to convert people? (...

He's hardly a mainstream politician, hasn't made it very high up in his political career.

So you have thoroughly studied and realized pa?iccasamupp?da and found it lacking? Do tell us how you improved on it!

Well, look at so many people in these discussions: they brim with righteous indignation, they seek it.

There are no leftists in mainstream American politics. There are just different varieties of right-wing authoritarianism. It's what makes American Rep...

If your aim is to change people's minds (and you've said it is), then the responsibility to do so is on you, not on them to comply. It's on you to spe...

What on earth are you talking about??!!

Given that people typically identify themselves with their beliefs, their attitudes, etc., to question those beliefs is to hurt those people. - - - I ...

So why don't you sue them? Prove that what they are doing is reckless endangerment or even deliberate endangerment, and sue them, like every decent Am...

It's the one I often get from you.

I think that such a starting point should only be seen provisionally, and as an artificial imposition on what is otherwise a dynamic flux. Take, for e...

Before doing so, it seems it would behoove to first look into what ancient philosophy actually said, so that we know what exactly it is that we're upd...

I'm just completely amazed by their confidence, and I wonder what role it plays in spiritual development. Of course. If you study the early texts and ...

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You are very kind.

Oh, and this: How about taking your own advice and actually get to know a person?

The Dalai Lama is not the Buddha, nor is he the pope of Buddhism.

I suppose there are California Buddhists who believe such a thing (a "California Buddhist" is a person with some interest in Buddhism, but who believe...