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So you throw my whole website away just because i dont include you and 2 other guys nutjob definitions of buddhism?

When i talk about buddhism i am talking about 60 million thais living in a country with buddhist laws, millions of tibetans led by a reincarnated fraud, millions of therevadans who genuinely believe giving food to monks gains merits for a rebirth. I am talking about real buddhism, not your retarded bs.

Call it a strawman and i call you a retard so that makes us even.
 
onemind said:
So you throw my whole website away just because i dont include you and 2 other guys nutjob definitions of buddhism?

When i talk about buddhism i am talking about 60 million thais living in a country with buddhist laws, millions of tibetans led by a reincarnated fraud, millions of therevadans who genuinely believe giving food to monks gains merits for a rebirth. I am talking about real buddhism, not your retarded bs.

Call it a strawman and i call you a retard so that makes us even.
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My, you are angry. You could do with some of that inner peace. :)
 
And how do you get inner peace? Label yourself a buddhist, make up your own philosophy and sit around on the internet all day.

No thanks.
 
Dancing David said:
Bondage, most likely submissive
Unitarian Universalist
Posting on the JREF

:D
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onemind said:
And how do you get inner peace? Label yourself a buddhist, make up your own philosophy and sit around on the internet all day.

No thanks.
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Onemind continues to dazzle us with his civility.
 
onemind said:
And how do you get inner peace? Label yourself a buddhist, make up your own philosophy and sit around on the internet all day.

No thanks.
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My comment about inner peace was facetious - but it seems to have been lost on you. In any case i don't regard myself as a Buddhist - it's a little presumptuous to think that i must regard myself as such simply because i have the audacity to disagree with your anti-Buddhism diatribe.
 
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onemind said:
So you throw my whole website away just because i dont include you and 2 other guys nutjob definitions of buddhism?
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Now that isreally funny Onemind, where did I say to throw your website away?
When i talk about buddhism i am talking about 60 million thais living in a country with buddhist laws, millions of tibetans led by a reincarnated fraud, millions of therevadans who genuinely believe giving food to monks gains merits for a rebirth. I am talking about real buddhism, not your retarded bs.

Call it a strawman and i call you a retard so that makes us even.
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Interesting, this is a sceptic's forum and you haven't demonstrated critical thinking skills. Which one is name calling?
 
Dancing David said:
Yay for sceptics, i will see if they quote the alleged historical buddha or the folowers of the alleged historical buddha.

Time for Yrreg to appear.

Here is what I found, some good ,some attributions to the buddha that might or might not be the product of the AHB



From the buddha part:
http://thebuddhawaswrong.com/buddha.php

Certainly the belief of some of the buddha's followers and up there with the sex change of Avolokiteshivara, but in some people's minds not a teaching of the AHB.


From the dammha part
http://thebuddhawaswrong.com/nibbana.php

I think there has been a great discussion about the subject of nibbanna on this board, and miost would disagree with this characterization of nibbanna.

I would disagree with these statements as well.

http://thebuddhawaswrong.com/rebirth.php

I disagree with this as well.

http://thebuddhawaswrong.com/meditation.php

i agree.

From the section on the sangha
http://thebuddhawaswrong.com/sangha.php

Makes sense to me.

http://thebuddhawaswrong.com/dana.php

I agree.

Quite true, but not all buddhists follow the silly dogma.
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Hmm, no where does it say to throw the web site away. I think I even used the word 'good' and made some agreement in anumber of spots.

Hmmm, do you read before you speak?
 
Okay, show me the teachings of Gautama that make sense to you.

Ryokan said:
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You've made the claim that Buddha's teaching predates him many times, but have so far never provided any evidence, although you've been asked to do so many times.

Will you do so now?

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You are the Buddhist or you call yourself proudly Buddhist.

So, you tell me what you find in Buddhism that makes sense to you, and I will tell you if it does make sense to mankind from time immemorial with the rise of civilization and society predating Gautama, or that it makes for nonsense in the light of timeless wisdom from the dawn of consciousness and intelligence.


I really deplore that after all my efforts for your best changes in life, you have reverted to the illogic of Buddhism and restored you trade signboard of "Resident Buddhist", and this is an educational foundation of a website.


Just tell me so that I will still entertain the hope that you are not immune to education:

Is Buddhism a discovery by Gautama or a speculation with enormous borrowings from other earlier and contemporary fiction seers?​

If you cannot understand the question, then consider it this way:

Is Buddhism a discovery by Buddha like blood circulation by Harvery, or is it his guesswork invention like the koteka is presumably an invention among the male highlanders of New Guinea -- which I submit is more useful by far than the invention of Buddhism by Gautama.​


Have fun thinking about the question.


Yrreg
 
Sapienti pauca: Latin, to the wise few words.

Taffer said:
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Yrreg, go away. Also, I am unsure what you mean by "Sapienti pauca". I was under the impression it was a musical term. Also, I never claimed it was originally metaphorical, only that it can be interpreted as such.
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You said Chinese Buddhism was not woo-ish at the beginning, in very few words; that is why I call you a Doctor of Buddhism, subclass, Chinese; and you are one wise man with few words.


Yrreg
 
andyandy said:
http://www.dyslexia.com/qasymptoms.htm#d981130


I await excuse number 5 with interest - and perhaps justification as to why you're categorically sure that dancing david is lying.
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That site says that someone who has spelling problems and has Dysphonetic dyslexia would have simply a very poor grasp of phonics. It's the site I quoted.

The terms 'dysphonetic' and 'dyseidetic' are words used to describe typical symptoms of dyslexia. The person labeled 'dysphonetic' has difficulty connecting sounds to symbols, and might have a hard time sounding out words, and spelling mistakes would show a very poor grasp of phonics. This is also sometimes called "auditory" dyslexia, because it relates to the way the person processes the sounds of language.
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Dancing David said:
Hmm, what about neo-pagans who speak english.

i am not sure I follow but i think that is what i want to say. What language is an english speaking neopagan using when they address Frey or Frey?
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I have no idea what they call Freya. Even if they called her "God" with a capital G it would technically be incorrect since that refers to the monotheistic God in the English language.

Dancing David said:
That would hinder me in learning to spell. Fortunately my mother taught me to read in third grade.

I said I misused the term dysphonia. And I apologised. If you can't sound out words as in "Hooked on Phonics", than you memorise all the words you speel, or rely on spell check, which i will try to do more often.

How do you think phonic spelling works.
1. You say the word or hear the word.
2. You associate the sounds with the symbols used to spell.
3. You spell the words based upon the transfering of the sounds to the symbols.

Which part of perhaps not being able to do 2 don't you understand?

dysphonetic dyslexia is "a phonics problem " related to spelling.



Thanks for being a jerk, you could change your ways Dustin.
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You keep getting the terms wrong.

Dancing David said:
Thanks again Dustin, you are greatly appreciated by one and all.

Why would I lie?

Would you like to talk to my mother, or brother or my friend who told me I was dysphonetic?

Yours must be a very interesting life.
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Is your mother or brother or friend experts on dyslexia or even medical doctors? People can make mistakes. You MIGHT have 'dysphonetic dyslexia', I don't know. However I do know that having it would not impair your ability to spell. Simply comprehend sounds.
 
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Yrreg - Once again, your ignorance of, hatred for, and envy of Buddhism keeps bringing it to people's awareness in a postive way. Kind of sweet that this is the last thing you'd want.

We could spend some time speculating about why you are so threatened by it, but why bother. Its a lot more interesting to think about Buddhism after its had superstition-goo scraped off. I don't give a fig leaf for the religion - I want to learn from its philosophy.

I like to slowly reread the Dhammapada every so often. I haven't wanted to read other Buddhist documents or commentary for some time now. I have no desire to become a scholar of Buddhism or to intellectualize it. I benefit from revisiting that challenge every so often. It is enough for me for now.

I'm an atheist who finds something in Buddhism that resonates for me, something about life, how to live well, and why to live well.

I first encountered Buddhism 36 years ago, felt its attraction, and disliked the religious clutter it had accreted. I touch base with it occasionally. Yrreg's hatred of it has let me to visit it again.

When I read Yrreg's messages, always with their Buddhist slant, I've got smile a bit sadly.
 
Because the other forms of buddhism dont need to be disproved because they dont say anything to start with hence my argument of why use the word buddhism for such bs.
 
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