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Re: What can and can't you do?
The consequence of intoxicants is firstly heedlessness, that is not having clear control of your mental faculties, and so being in a position to break the other precepts or otherwise cause harm. That… (View Post)
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Re: Dalai Lama endorsing Humanism?
@RebeccaS, That's kinda like vegans, many come off as arrogant, but I'm sure there are plenty who don't have a superiority complex. Likely the same with humanists. (View Post)
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Re: The film that killed the Ambassador.
I see it as very obviously offensive and can't condone it at all, but taking to the streets and burning American flags, and especially killing people... that's very obviously overkill, over-sensitivi… (View Post)
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Re: The film that killed the Ambassador.
@andyrobyn, That's why I think the people who made the video are genuine asses. It's like they're trying to bring hellfire down on all of us Americans. I'm sure there are many Muslims who feel the sa… (View Post)
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Re: The Wave analogy
@Jeffrey It's possible to go too far and say there is nothing, but we can't reify anything either. There's obviously "suchness", but we have to see it as empty of thingness/beingness/self. … (View Post)1