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Kim

BTW, who or what is a "Jesus Christ" ?

...because ... 3. "He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me." Those who harbor such thoughts do not still their hatred. 4. "He abused me, he struck me, he overpowered me, he robbed me." Those who do not harbor such thoughts still their hatred. 5. Hatred is never appeased by hatred...

In Australia anyone involved with children at all needs a background check. It's called a "working with vulnerable people and children card" and has to be renewed every 3 years. All sorts of people need them, coaches and managers of junior sports teams, bus and taxi drivers as well as the usual sus...

Australia is a very non-religious society, overall - I mean, there are plenty of religious people, but churches are not well-attended... And then there's the issue of multiculturalism, too. Religious freedom here has to recognise the right of atheists and Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, etc, as well as t...

The demands and obligations to God and Caesar are sometimes the same and many times different. Though as several have suggested it does not seem to be an insurmountable problem to reconcile the two except for the fact priests are quite reluctant to turn themselves or their brothers in for many civi...

I'm not going to take sides here, but I will provide some context: Key recommendations from the royal commission into child sexual abuse The five-year Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse handed down its final report on Friday. The report runs over 17 volumes and inclu...

One didn't get to eat - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/24/sarah-sanders-speaks-about-ejection-from-virginia-restaurant - and whinged about it, - and got in trouble for whinging. Result: Restaurant owner :twothumbsup: Sanders :toilet: Everyone left of Genghis Khan :thumbsup: :D Kim

Kim

well all this [social background] reeks of useing religion for control of the masses and defining them... so far from enlightened thought it stinks... like there is a question as to what is buddha's words and what isn't ...but this is blatantly similar to creating a god figure who gives the right f...

:good: Just two small points: Traditionally, its been the aristocrats who have associated with performers socially. People who are not required to subscribe to the bourgeois standards... Who have so much that the rules don't apply to them... and actors and performers adorn the environments they crea...

New movies ... :popcorn: New documentaries bring climate change to the big screen Grist traveled to the tiny mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, to see some of the most talked-about environmental and climate change-related documentaries screening at the Mountainfilm Festival. The films take on the...

I read part of it ( years ago) and couldn't see what the excitement was about :shrug: but this movie version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron_(1971_film) attracted a lot of attention when it was new. Going by Pasolini's other movies, it's probably worth a look, even now. :coffee: Kim

... Many good folks take political stances very close to heart. I've also met some lovely people who espoused bizzare political views. We have to be careful not to make too much of it. The thicket of views and such... . Happy for DW- Theravada decision. Here? Not sure, not as urgent at least. Mahay...

is there sutras were Buddha talk about it? Read the OP! I mean on Singers, the OP talking about actors I don't think there was much separation between the two in the Buddha's time - I think they were all "entertainers" in our terms, singing, dancing, acting, juggling and whatever else they could do...

It's the same for me, FWIW, using the current version of Firefox on a Mac desktop - OS 10.12.4, so that's not far out of date either.


Kim

should do the same thing here. the only reason it doesn't cause strife here is because those who are in the minority know to keep quite since the mods will shut down any dissenters Nonsense, on both counts. The forum is not a bad idea though, perhaps the oppressed huddled masses can who have been s...

... Please help if you recognize the quote. By the way, I found this link quite helpful, as it lists several other translations/commentaries: https://terebess.hu/zen/qingyuan.html I recognised it and when I looked at your link I saw at least three places I probably saw it, years ago. But that leave...

Thanks. Good news. :twothumbsup: I remembered faintly and thus something like that dawned on me already. I'm always a bit confused about it, if that makes you feel better. Theravadins celebrate it as Vesak on the full moon day, May 29 but in some countries they have chosen to celebrate a month earl...

With a bit of searching I found it was in the Mahāsupina Jātaka. I wasn't too surprised to find it isn't a 'real' sutra, actually, because it has the style of a folk tale. A Thai-trained Theravadin monk gives a lot of information about it at https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=10807 (yes, that's...