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..." Hell is other people"...

sarin gas in tokyo subways. google that. Soka Gakkai International... has many features of a cult. They also seem to focus on too much mantra chantings, for my liking. Doctrinally, they are similiar to Pure Land, insofar as you don't really need to know or do much to be a a buddhist, you...

bhajaktan, i am sorry to hear your news. It's a bit late now, but my advice would've been -- don't sign anything until you've taken legal advice! I am assuming you're based in the US, and I cannot advise you of your rights because of this, but, if you were in the UK, unless you have...

... am reading about the Cathars... I know... bit and pieces, but would like to know more, and am hoping somebody here will point me in the right direction to a ... definative introduction to their belief system, rather than mainly history intersperced with snippets of doctrine... any offers...

hahahhahahahaaaa.

1: archaic consciousness of Infants-- to me, this doesn't exist. Children only "know" the Gods they are given 2. Magical consciousness of Children -- all children are prone to "magical thinking". It's like... reality testing. All children exposed to religious conditioning will participate...

noble, it is, to speak of ridding the world of poverty, and want, but, you won't manage it. It'll never happen. The capitalist system needs paupers. Without paupers, the aspiration game doesn't work quite so well. I look at news footage, on TV, of these poor, starving people. They...

Personally, I don't think that anyone with anything approaching "real" enlightenment can absolutely, 100% agree and espouse just one doctrine without also, at least, acknowledging the merits and similarities that their "one truth faith" shares with other, supposedly different faiths. I also...

and he concludes with... "go away, you're a nuisance. And he was doing so well, too... ish... if you squint a bit, and lower the lights a little :wink

Is this a direct quote from HPB?

...what, andrew, like your theosophy crucified Krsnamurti? mm... I have lots of great and worldy wisdom, Andrew. are such taunts the best you can do?

I will not bother to try to address Andrew -- he's got his knickers in a twist and he's got me on ignore, or so he says... (but I bet the drama-queen he is, he'll jump in with more pithy put-downs...) As Radarmark put it -- methinks the lady doth protest too much... To try to answer what...

with only SOME of us? Nice! (Which ones?)

... there are no pictural representations of God, in Islam. To do so, I am led to believe, is ... presumptious on the part of man, who cannot hope to ever see God as he is... ...this same idea of God being beyond human understanding, due to God's "vastness" or multiplicity of being, occurs...

to me, there's no such thing as inherently good, or inherently bad. Even serial killers can be kind to their mothers. Some people held up by others to be wise, and holy, are savages.

read the books. do some internet searches. it's all out there.

Indeed, it does depend on what you consider to be proof, doesn't it? I like facts best. Here's a few, for your perusal. None of which you can deny, Andrew, although you will no doubt try. It's a fact that Blavatsky struggled with simple Vedic terms and misspelt the sanskrit that...

... there isn't any real proof that Blavatsky hung around with gurus and wise old sages. In fact, it is reputed she made the whole thing up, and all of the Mahatma letters were written by herself and the famous alleged peadophile Leadbetter....

... when we pass crackheads on the street, we sneer, and breathe a sigh of relief they have passed. Yet, here are millions, mourning the passing of a crackhead. It's a funny old world. Sure, she sung, but, so what? Smoke crack, you die young. Drug addled pop stars are like buses. There'll...