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I agree. There are plenty of sound pricipals that get over looked with all the negativity attached to religion, although i pretty much think "Love Thy Neighbour" covers everything!
I'd agree with that, you cant really argue with that can you.
We wouldn't have prejudice, greed, war... I think a lot of Christians do a lot of good things around the world, taking on Christianity in their life but for a Buddhist... Buddhism is their life.
I expect he does if he uses a one syllable word.
Thats a seriously high regard you have for Buddists there, they are just as human as the rest of us.
Yes I do hold Buddhists with high reguard because their beliefs are beautiful.
Oh of course, but like with any other religion they are only Humans, therefore I think your idea of World peace and loveliness if we were all Buddist an exageration.
So how does that fit into this? That we cant ever communicate with God because we are like dogs in comparison?
OK, I was just confused by the dog thing, are you suggesting that God can only give us simple messages, because anything longer than His version of 'sit' would pass over our heads?
Yes but a dog actually exists...saying a dog is a dog and that's it is a circular argument. Saying that I can communiacte with a dog in certain ways, through tone of voice, touch etc, that dogs communicate with each other throough smell etc etc is a discussion. Saying that dog = dog is not.
But the analogy doesn't hold up, for the reasons I've just mentioned.
You don't believe in a soul?Ok,so what do you believe in?
As for the ''patronising nonsense'' remark, ummm...is that the level of conversation I am supposed to follow here? :rolleyes:
Thank you, it means miracle in spanish.
But why do you say it's totally unrelated?I thought we were analysing the factors that influence sexual orientation?I just offered a more spiritual perspective on the matter.
Why do I have to believe in anything?
well thats what we all should be...
Why can't people accept uncompromisingly straight sexuality?
I'm sick of gays and bi-sexuals telling me i'm apparently bi-sexual "because everyone is". It really is becoming a very tiresome bandwagon.
aye i know...i have 2 bi-sexual friends, one boy and one girl, and they keep saying ot me "have you never kissed a boy", i say "no" and they look shocked and say "don't knock it until you've tried", like if i had any fucking desire in my body to kiss a boy, i'd have done it by now, i'm just 100% straight, end of story, some people just don't get it...
On some days. Atheist on others.
why...i see the whole God thing like a map, a map with an X on it that marks the spot, the X is god, however the map is untitled and we don't know where it is, some people take the map, i.e. the bible and base their faith that they'll find X eventually, probably death, i'm agnostic, i'm just waiting for someone to tell me where the island is and where X is situated, atheists just discount the map altogether...i'm agnostic, it's what everyone should be if you had any right sense of mind...
Buddhism is a fairly strange religion once you scratch the surface. They hold some fairly far out views. I did some reading into it a while back and the structure of the Karma system is really out there.
A farily good outline of the karma system is here.