I enjoyed this a lot.
Namu Daishi Henjō Kongō
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All this stuff about riding tigers and does the tiger you’re riding really own you is banal. I couldn’t watch it all the way. To be fair if this were real Andrew Tate he would be yelling racist abuse at Buddha from within his jail cell for sex trafficking, and Buddha would be like “yeah yeah, show everyone what you’re really like, nobody else even wants to run your tacky shady businesses”.
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Andrew Tate’s attitude used to be parody, now it’s an ideal?
The catchprase comes in at 1min 32s: “How many business have yow built up single ‘andedly in the West Midlands..” That sketch is why l’ve killed my brummy accent. Note how Peaky Blinders is mostly a fake brum accent - that sketch has it right:
I think it was based on the founder of Telewest Broadband, before it was absorbed into Virgin Media.
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Andrew Tate is just the boomer capitalist mindset sold to younger people.
What I like about the video is how Buddha looks at the modern western conceptualization of narcissistic materialism and rips it into shreds in a spiritually enlightened manner. Buddha would probably find this entire modern era distasteful.
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Bonus round. 
Stoicism versus Broicism.
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Critique against buddhism.
Enlightenent, Non attachment and other Toxic Spiritual Cons
In the words of Alan Watts “Their are no perpetual state’s” we’re here to experience and share in each others pain and happiness, in the words of Bill Hicks " we are all one consciousness experiencing life SUBJECTIVELY " meditation should only be used medicinally, life is predetermined book but we’re still reading the book in real time. The point of meditating on a mountain top is the self realisations of what you are missing out on at the base of the mountain, Happiness, sadness, pain, suffering…you are missing out on Living Life."
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Buddhists try to get rid of a reincarnation cycle that doesn’t even exist. There is no karma. There is no rebirth from moment to moment because time isn’t a string of moments. ‘Enlightenment’ is just awakening to our true nondual nature, and that can be done by most people in this lifetime, even by bad people, it’s not really an achievement. Detached compassion is important but attached love is more important. Romantic love is awesome. Attachment is only the cause of some suffering. The ego is partially illusory but partially real. You can meditate for 50 years but will only find your own self-awareness in it, and you don’t need to meditate for that. But overall I still place Buddhism and Hinduism above the Abrahamic religions.
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Buda vs Mohamed would be more interesting.
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Ordinary companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) were on par with Buddha, easily, in fact l could argue they were better (but l find armchair virtue comparisons somewhat vulgar) because they actually got involved in the world.
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Yet even Rabbi Yeshua meditated in the desert and wilderness confronted by his adversary.
Remind me again, how are your Benedictine monks any better?
While I am not a Christian myself I know everything about your religion. Kinda hard not to being that America here is the most Christian nation on earth.
He was never a Rabbi and would have hated the term.
@reason4emotion note this and also note l didn’t answer your apostasy q on the other thread as it was off-topic, and l didn’t wantt to detract from the absolute pasting l was giving the OP, nor from your lack of any meaningful challenge. And l wanted your disgusting words to remain visible.
The penalty for it in Islam varies, but l believe it is in the main death. That is because in an Islamic caliphate, the religion is the law, so turning against it is to turn against the State. This is a no-brainer and comes under Treason laws that many secular nations still have. You should not judge Muslims be secular standards as a Christian, because that would be ironic.
Please see: Apostasy: Whoever changes his religion, kill him?
Let us now turn to the Bible, your own book:
KILL APOSTATES: And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; … Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. – Deuteronomy, Chapter 17:2-3,5
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Depends on if you believe in reincarnation or not. As for me I do believe in reincarnation and I also believe in breaking Samsara completely as well.
So much about death and the annihilation of the body or mental consciousness we know nothing about limited in our ability of that threshold to understand what it all amounts to. The atheist will say nothingness is what death all amounts to but I think the universe is more complicated in that there are other things going on than merely what appears on the material surface level.
Let me know your thought process on how you conclude reincarnation
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Could you explain further? I think Muslim celebrate it too, as the Day of Ashura, though we treat it in a different way, by fasting, l think the Jews do feasting not fasting on that day.
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All in all Jesus (Rabbi Yeshua) practiced and believed in a form of Judaism as the New Testament asserted such.
Christianity is nothing more than Judaism lite for the gentiles. Islam being a third sect that simply disagrees with the other previous two in practiced beliefs.
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I’m unsure what religion Jesus was a prophet of, but:
- He was from a Jewish milieu
- He brought a first-person revelation called the Gospel (not the “According to ..” fragments).
I am happy to see him as a Jew but there is some indication that he brought new laws.
Judaism is not Pharisaism. In fact, Jesus condemned the Pharisees. Rabbinic Judaism = Pharisaism, l hope you realise this.
At a guess, l’d say other Jewish sects may have called their clerics “Shalafi” (“predecessor”, same as the Arabic term “Salafi”, but the Islamic Salafists mean by that the first 3 generations of Islam, they overglorify them and awkwardly thrust them into modernity, a world of computers, nylon, secularism)
Correct. Christianity and Islam are forms of Judaism for non-jews. Ultimately it’s all the same thing, part of the same ‘mythos’ and plan.
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