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  1. Shuddhasattva

    True Love does it exsist ?

    you're asking me to prove a negative. any scientific backing that "true love" exists outside of fools dreams?
  2. Shuddhasattva

    Female Advice

    ah yeah, if you're already spending money on her that way she's probably just cultivating repeat custom,
  3. Shuddhasattva

    True Love does it exsist ?

    no. no. don't p*ss your life away. no.
  4. Shuddhasattva

    We speak of animal cruelty

    What if it's both? What happens to abusers? I will say one thing: the deadened priests and false sadhus who sell god and extort misbegotten alms are reborn as begging monkeys and dogs to infest the temple grounds.
  5. Shuddhasattva

    Namaste, new member here

    Namaste & welcome Viraja
  6. Shuddhasattva

    food rules

    don't eat suffering. this is not a legalistic religion unless you're taking full vinaya. Actually, dietary guidelines in Buddhism are very important, but not so much in terms of what you put in your mouth. That is very simple: don't eat suffering. A lot follows from that very simple premise...
  7. Shuddhasattva

    Zeuhl / RIO / alt rock / post rock

    ZH1x0w8oPKA Giant Squid - Summit - YouTube
  8. Shuddhasattva

    How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini's millions

    Corruption ratings? What a joke.
  9. Shuddhasattva

    Elder Gods

    Please substantiate, because "most scholars" can mean all kinds of things, some of them quite disgraceful.
  10. Shuddhasattva

    The better leader is more loved? Or more feared?

    Ordinarily I wouldn't stoop to such backwards behavior but as this is a religious forums, I will illustrate with, of all things, an example from my religion and hopefully roll high against instant credibility death. Anyway... The epic of greater India, the Mahabharata, is a story about an...
  11. Shuddhasattva

    The better leader is more loved? Or more feared?

    It's not that emotions are impractical. It's that adherence to ideals like "I should be loved, not feared!" as a leader is a handicap. Good leaders are pragmatic; the job is what's important and it takes everyone beyond themselves, whether the mission is invoked with fear, love or something else...
  12. Shuddhasattva

    The better leader is more loved? Or more feared?

    Abstract ideals are highly impractical in leadership. What matters is getting the job done
  13. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    This, more or less. I was trying to point at this with my first post in the thread: We're not looking at two religions here but one meta-religion containing within it many, many religions with tremendous diversity in their views and practices, such that many schools of Buddhism share far...
  14. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    What I'm saying is that your "Western" is itself a "Western" construct. It has no substantive existence. "West" and "East" do not exist as such categories except for colonial convenience, dividing and conquering states of mind. Yes, but again here we have a false dichotomy between...
  15. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    To me this isn't any more significant than saying something like "do you believe that Kashmir & Nepal can ever truly have the same entire worldviews?" What am I to make of that? :help: Need we be children to drink from this silent well? Apparently yes, but this, ipso facto, is just not true...
  16. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    Frankly I don't believe that symbol languages can't be learned. To be honest, what you're encountering is not so much 'native knowledge' but 'native ignorance,' where the forest arrived at too easily isn't seen for the trees.
  17. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    If you (or Wikipedia?) says so. I haven't noticed that much myself, at least not how it's typically spun by Western buddhists. Seals aren't seals unless they're also gestures. Even if this were true though, both Hindu and Buddhist beliefs in regards to the atman or other self-concepts are far...
  18. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    Do you mean to say that converts can't have lineage? Not much a point to much of either Buddhism or Hinduism without lineage, really. Practice isn't very belief-centric.
  19. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    Please elaborate, I am not sure what fundamental issue you reference despite some little familiarity with the religion(s?). That said, I've always wanted to do two religions at once. Aww yeah.
  20. Shuddhasattva

    two religions at once

    Are Buddhism and Hinduism 2 religions? Why?
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