praxis

A government performs many functions. The primary duty of the US government is to protect the rights of the people, and the people include illegal ali...

It is undeniably childish, and also inaccurate. The primary duty of the American government is to protect the rights of the people (including illegal ...

Leave it to Trump to turn the state of the union address into a childish game of Simon Says. Just wonderful. :lol:

Well, I suppose that I can’t speak for you and I apologize for presuming. I am myself a sentient being, or at least I was the last time I checked. You...

There’ll always be a previous cause or rebirth going back infinitely.

Religious revealed truths conflict and their moral codes vary accordingly. For example, some religious traditions morally permit killing and even at t...

Okay, looking at it differently, are not shared forms of practice and understanding private psychological states to the community that shares whatever...

I asked about revealed truths being relative or subjective. Then commented on your line about "a disenchanted universe: the modern subject—liberated f...

Then perhaps you can argue it with Joshs?

That seems to mean that meaning can only be found in religious dogma. That's not true. The problem with this is that Revealed Truths differ greatly. O...

Aren't revealed truths relative or subjective?

You seem to be saying that subjective determination can have no basis. That makes no sense.

Just to clarify, you're claiming that, judging from what I've posted so far in this topic, I'm thinking in terms of reincarnation, not rebirth. I aske...

I’ll rephrase that, I can't fathom how you arrive at that conclusion from what I’ve said so far.

Being entertained by a discussion doesn't imply trolling, obviously. What is that supposed to mean, that he wasn't giving his personal view? I don't t...

Went to a Lakers game in LA a few weeks ago and before the game we ate at a soul food restaurant called Fixins. I had fried chicken, collard greens, b...

I don’t see a significant difference. In either case, you are mixing or selecting for the same properties: hue, saturation, and value.

Nice review. One odd thing I liked about the book is how it started with Captain Davidson's point of view. At the end of that part I was like, am I su...

Link? Yes, that was interesting. How the Athsheans dreamt was also interesting and I wish that was a little more developed.

Just read it. Seems like the original Avatar story, only the aliens were small and green rather than big and blue. https://cdn.midjourney.com/74687961...

I won't bother to do it but I could post a digital painting and a watercolor painting where you couldn't tell which was which. Your 'consumption' woul...

"Digital paintings" to distinguish the particular medium of painting. Vegetarian meat is a poor analogy because both the method of production and cons...

It's a digital painting or just a particular medium. There are many types of paintings, like oil, watercolors, gouache, etc.

I can't fathom how you arrive at that conclusion from the one sentence I wrote. Are you saying that you don't believe sentient beings are reborn and t...

Frankly, entertainment. To call something an abomination is to suggest it should be rejected, erased, or undone, not merely regulated or punished. Som...

I've been thinking along the same lines. In fact yesterday I was recalling a time when I was part of a Zen temple in LA. The temple was founded by Mae...

You’re saying that in an eternity, and across all space and time, innumerable sentient beings never had the insight that one dude on earth—the Buddha—...

But we’re not looking forward, we’re looking infinitely backwards, and in the past ignorance has necessarily never been removed because we are here in...

If a cycle of rebirth and death is beginingless then there will always be a previous cause or rebirth and this would go back infinitely. If there’s no...

You’re claiming that teaching may be false?

Opap?tika means only not born through parents or biological reproduction. It is still rebirth and causally conditioned. I'm thinking that this, if not...

You’re claiming that according to Buddhist doctrine there are births that are not rebirths? That some births are not part of the cycle of life and dea...

If rebirth is true then there are no ‘causeless’ births, and given that there is no beginning to the wheel of life and death, that means we have alway...

Think about it for a second, if the wheel has no beginning then it has been spinning for eternity.

Not really. Digital painting is very common nowadays, where 'painting' seems to mean merely coloring an area.

It claims cyclical existence without beginning. A circular ladder doesn’t progress, it goes round and round without beginning or ending.

The realization or actual experience of emptiness or the true nature of being. More mundanely, it's an experience or brain state. Not at all, in fact ...

Facts be damned? What facts have I damned? Speaking of facts… I just reviewed our posts in this thread. A month ago I posted the disgusting Kirk quote...

Ever heard of Parkinson’s Law?

Sorry. If you’re willing to indulge me I’ll try again, and try very hard to be honest this time. I’m suggesting that salvation may not be all that, uh...

Which seems to imply that the rituals (and other aspects of religion?) are superfluous to enlightenment :starstruck: . If that's the case then what pu...

I don't know what you're doing, so many of your statements are contradictory. The most glaring example of late is that you say the trans abomination c...

I’m at somewhat of a loss here—if you’re pearl clutching over that, all I can think is you haven’t been around much in Buddhist circles.

I see, the Newman effect strikes again! :lol:

Charlie Kirk deadnamed deliberately and in a demeaning way and it functioned socially like an epithet. His audience loved it though and cheered apprec...

Pretti spit on a car. I haven't seen any evidence of him pushing anyone.

Why not, or what makes it dishonorable?

The following sounds rather callous to me.

When did he assault them?

I don’t see how hiding their doubts would indicate a greater seriousness. If they’re serious about preserving the religion then yeah, I suppose hiding...