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So a lot of times, the time can be looked at culturally and or with ideas, and language.

There are different kinds of language, including transcendental, and such like this;

and whether we are advanced sometimes is shown by the words and thoughts we share.

What do you think the 24th century will be like, if things only get better in terms of inter-cultural understanding?

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joy&peace wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:55 am So a lot of times, the time can be looked at culturally and or with ideas, and language.

There are different kinds of language, including transcendental, and such like this;

and whether we are advanced sometimes is shown by the words and thoughts we share.

What do you think the 24th century will be like, if things only get better in terms of inter-cultural understanding?

:thumbsup: :yinyang: :alien:
At this rate, humanity is not going to make it to the 24th century.
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It is a race for a type 1 civilization.
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Sometimes I drive to work in my gas guzzling car and I reflect that people like me are the reasons why our planet is dying. "Innocent" people like me who need to get to work.
Then, the monks uttered this gāthā:

These bodies are like foam.
Them being frail, who can rejoice in them?
The Buddha attained the vajra-body.
Still, it becomes inconstant and ruined.
The many Buddhas are vajra-entities.
All are also subject to inconstancy.
Quickly ended, like melting snow --
how could things be different?

The Buddha passed into parinirvāṇa afterward.
(T1.27b10 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra DĀ 2)
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Coëmgenu wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:20 am Sometimes I drive to work in my gas guzzling car and I reflect that people like me are the reasons why our planet is dying. "Innocent" people like me who need to get to work.
You really should buy a Tesla.
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amanitamusc wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:07 am
Coëmgenu wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:20 am Sometimes I drive to work in my gas guzzling car and I reflect that people like me are the reasons why our planet is dying. "Innocent" people like me who need to get to work.
You really should buy a Tesla.
Can you pay for it?
Then, the monks uttered this gāthā:

These bodies are like foam.
Them being frail, who can rejoice in them?
The Buddha attained the vajra-body.
Still, it becomes inconstant and ruined.
The many Buddhas are vajra-entities.
All are also subject to inconstancy.
Quickly ended, like melting snow --
how could things be different?

The Buddha passed into parinirvāṇa afterward.
(T1.27b10 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra DĀ 2)
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Coëmgenu wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:11 am
amanitamusc wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:07 am
Coëmgenu wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:20 am Sometimes I drive to work in my gas guzzling car and I reflect that people like me are the reasons why our planet is dying. "Innocent" people like me who need to get to work.
You really should buy a Tesla.
Can you pay for it?
Umm...no,I am poor. I'm saving up for a nano solar scooter .I have tiny hands but massive fingerprints.
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joy&peace wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:55 am So a lot of times, the time can be looked at culturally and or with ideas, and language.

There are different kinds of language, including transcendental, and such like this;

and whether we are advanced sometimes is shown by the words and thoughts we share.

What do you think the 24th century will be like, if things only get better in terms of inter-cultural understanding?

:thumbsup: :yinyang: :alien:
You might find this book interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/Future-Humanity- ... 0385542763
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I like walking...
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No, but thank you Amanita. I do not read books by violent individuals. Killing toward animals is also considered killing; I do not consider is less.
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amanitamusc wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:26 am
Coëmgenu wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:11 am
amanitamusc wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:07 am

You really should buy a Tesla.
Can you pay for it?
Umm...no,I am poor. I'm saving up for a nano solar scooter .I have tiny hands but massive fingerprints.
Indeed. I am also too poor for a Tesla.

A problem perhaps unique to Canada is that here, it is common to live 2hr+ from your work, given the extreme sparsity of the population density here.
Then, the monks uttered this gāthā:

These bodies are like foam.
Them being frail, who can rejoice in them?
The Buddha attained the vajra-body.
Still, it becomes inconstant and ruined.
The many Buddhas are vajra-entities.
All are also subject to inconstancy.
Quickly ended, like melting snow --
how could things be different?

The Buddha passed into parinirvāṇa afterward.
(T1.27b10 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra DĀ 2)
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joy&peace wrote: Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:39 pm No, but thank you Amanita. I do not read books by violent individuals. Killing toward animals is also considered killing; I do not consider is less.
How is DR. Michio Kaku a violent person?
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