Your "deal-breaker." What is it and why?

[ManTimeForgot]

Fidelity. Being true to myself, but also being loyal and true to those I care about. There needs to be a strength of conviction in your beliefs and in your relationships. And if you truly value someone else, then you won't want to cheat or be duplicitous with them. Any ideology which seems to support self-deception or falseness in relationships immediately becomes suspect.

With that said I have had to basically invent my own world view and set of beliefs in order to adhere to this.

MTF

 

[Secret Chief]

I could be wrong (but I'm sure I'm correct), it is the Buddha's ultimate view of Emptiness that sets it apart from other religions.

I may indeed agree! I do not know sufficient of other religions to be certain.

 

[blackout]

*I Mage I Nation.

oh yes,
and Purple of course.

('proper'/traditional grammar and spelling optional)

*possible translation-- I Cast My Reality.

 

[ManTimeForgot]

*I Mage I Nation.

oh yes,
and Purple of course.

('proper'/traditional grammar and spelling optional)

*possible translation-- I Cast My Reality.

I have this sneaking suspicion that faeries might also be a deal breaker, especially of the purple sparkly variety...

MTF

 

[blackout]

I have this sneaking suspicion that faeries might also be a deal breaker, especially of the purple sparkly variety...

MTF

In my Land, they Cast the Chorus Line!


Adorable. :beach:

*look direcetly down and imagine it!*
Sexy little things. :flirt:

 

[rageoftyrael]

One thing i'll never be able to do? Lie to myself. It's the reason why i'm an agnostic atheist. I can't lie to myself, and i don't think anything will ever change that will allow me to do so.

 

[chinu]

What is the one thing (belief, practice, whatever) that you could not give up, the "deal-breaker" of your belief system (or non-belief). There are probably aspects which you don't feel crucial and could (and maybe have) let slip, but what is it that you could not cast aside?
I'm a Buddhist and my deal- breaker is meditation. Why? Because it is the basis for the practice. If I did not meditate I would not consider myself to be a Buddhist.

I pray that O God... please make me so strong so that i could never give up my habit of " Deal breaking " for my beloved, means i want to give up everything for my beloved.

Where there is NO- deal-breaking -- there is chinu, or ego
Where there is deal-breaking --there is no-chinu, or chinu is vanishing everytime, and beloved is taking place of chinu.

and.. All that which i wrote above -- is my meditation.

_/\_
Chinu

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Three Marks of Existence.

Impermanence
Suffering
No-self

That's it for me. Except for jumping on the trampoline. Or stiletto heels. Or The Running Man dance move. Actually I have a lot of dealbreakers because I'm really fickle, demanding, and PMSing right now.

Give me some chocolate.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

What is the one thing (belief, practice, whatever) that you could not give up, the "deal-breaker" of your belief system (or non-belief). There are probably aspects which you don't feel crucial and could (and maybe have) let slip, but what is it that you could not cast aside?

I'm a Buddhist and my deal- breaker is meditation. Why? Because it is the basis for the practice. If I did not meditate I would not consider myself to be a Buddhist.

For me, I don't think I'd be able to call myself a freethinker if I no longer cared about whether my beliefs were true.

 

[9Westy9]

What is the one thing (belief, practice, whatever) that you could not give up, the "deal-breaker" of your belief system (or non-belief). There are probably aspects which you don't feel crucial and could (and maybe have) let slip, but what is it that you could not cast aside?

I'm a Buddhist and my deal- breaker is meditation. Why? Because it is the basis for the practice. If I did not meditate I would not consider myself to be a Buddhist.

My open mindedness for one

 

[LuisDantas]

Interdependent Origination.

 

[waitasec]

Thinking for myself. I couldn't ever give that up.

what vega said....

 

[Secret Chief]

Three Marks of Existence.
Or stiletto heels.

Bodhicitta 'n' bondage, eh? Intriguing combi.

 

[ManTimeForgot]

Interdependent Origination.

Unless the definition of interdependent origination that I read was somehow mistaken (or I was grossly misunderstanding it) this is something that no one can ever give up and still remain internally consistent or able to relate to reality in any way shape or form.

No absolute, permanent existence; everything is dependent in some way on everything else; nothing is uncaused (both meanings are supported) are all features or facets of dealing with limited (not eternal, perfect, etc) structures that are bound up in cause and effect (nothing cannot create anything as it wouldn't be nothing if it could do something).

MTF

 

[PolyHedral]

Unless the definition of interdependent origination that I read was somehow mistaken (or I was grossly misunderstanding it) this is something that no one can ever give up and still remain internally consistent or able to relate to reality in any way shape or form.

The FTL neutrinos disagree.

 

[ManTimeForgot]

The FTL neutrinos disagree.

Cause and effect is inviolate. Causes might have indistinct effects (effects we are not capable of discriminating or realizing in their entirety), but you can't have zero cause.

Operationally you can have something which is close enough to random to approximate being random for all practical purposes, but there actually isn't anything which is truly random. In order to be truly random whatever it is would have to have no relation to anything else in existence (not merely the universe).


I'm willing to give up non-locality OR hidden variables, but not both.

MTF

 

[Photonic]

The FTL neutrinos disagree.

The FTL Neutrinos have not, as of yet, been confirmed to be anything other than an experimental error.

It is my hope that they are not, but I'll keep trying to debunk it in the hopes that the observation still remains standing.

 

[Secret Chief]

Unless the definition of interdependent origination that I read was somehow mistaken (or I was grossly misunderstanding it) this is something that no one can ever give up and still remain internally consistent or able to relate to reality in any way shape or form.

MTF

There goes the Abrahamic faiths then with their internally inconsistent views I think!

 

[ChristineES]

There goes the Abrahamic faiths then with their internally inconsistent views I think!

Ha ha.

We of the Abraham religions are humans, too. We all see things a little differently. That is why we are inconsistent.

 

[Secret Chief]

Ha ha.

We of the Abraham religions are humans, too. We all see things a little differently. That is why we are inconsistent.

I'm glad you caught the glint in my eye