You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Take your threats elsewhere.
IOWs, you lied.
Prove me wrong.
Regards
DL
Starting a conversation with threats and libel is intellectually dishonest at best, evil at worst.
You’re in no position to demand anything from anybody. You may leave.
Yeah, interesting. I would just try this
Start An Delaware LLC
I had an excellent plan for you all and you need to know.
youtube.com/watch?v=c1gY7RWE48U
youtube.com/watch?v=6BHg1ALej3Q
My personal religion is compatible with Buddhism in part.
These are 2 Buddhism videos.
Spring is coming, eventually.
Hermitage House is on my mind.
Dali Lama , Jesus , and Atheism.
I hope it can all come together well.
recommended donations :
1$per cup of tea, lemonade or coffee.
3$per cup of strong home made liquor. (grape juice from the store wine, apple cider, green tea camboocha, chai tea camboocha)
maybe buy mechanical distiller much later in plans.
6$per meal, usually veggitarian.
11$per night, indoor rooms.
8$per night in tents.
All questions and comments are welcome.
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Does this mean that your sanctuary project is going ahead?
I plan to within a few months from now yes.
That’s amazing news…
Are you ready to become somewhat of a celebrity?
I doubt i would become a celebrity.
But if i did, i think i could handle it.
The weather was nice today.
At some point, +5c
Been thinking about a variety of things.
Question. Why isn’t Ecmandu the author of the original post?
Another question. Why would someone on a philosophy forum want to escape reality in building something other-than-reality to explain reality?
Another question. If what one wants is community, why not just build that? If what one wants is community built around religion, why not just use your powers of philosophy to decide on the most probable religion that best accounts for the data and let it shape how you build a community?
Last question. Since community already exists, and there’s a lot of room for improvement, but a lot of progress has already been made, why reinvent the wheel? Why not just make it better by applying the tenets of the most probable religion?
If you just wanna go glamping on vacation so you’re inviting momentary lapses of reason, there’s like a better forum for that, methinks. But that’s me being snooty, I guess.
New question. Does religion beget community, or does community beget religion? Marx flip flops like a tazed fish (politician) & can’t seem to make up his mind on that. Define religion — just an opiate? Define community - not an opiate?
It’s hard for me to find value in your latest post here.
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God controlled you?
I take it you mean your thinking.
How exactly did enlightenment hit you?
Regards
DL
Sorry. Just saw this. My free will was not breached. There is always a choice.
Putting what happened here is probably not a good idea.
There are better ways to talk about evidence (show versus know) for God’s existence.
I can’t show you what happened. There are very few people I’ve talked to about it.
I do not hide my apotheosis, but do as you like.
Then again, mine condemned the genocidal Yahweh to hell, and showed me a better way to think, so I have no reason to not show all my cards.
Regards
DL
Right Reason:
The first msg / letter for everyone.
I may have posted this already years ago.
If so, here we go again!
A greeting:
We favor christian, buddhist, taoist, atheist and pagan members.
However, nearly everyone is welcome, as long as the
people are not themselves cruel or exploitive.
I believe most of the things that the dali lama says.
One thing is almost like omnism. Seeing the common
ground between different religions.
Human compassion is more important than specific religious conversion.
If we have someone from every religion as members,
we’ll have more knowledge to draw from.
Variety/Novelty helps culture to grow faster.
Right Reason Summary 1
The greatest goal favors and improves life the most.
Our body is destined to die, but our soul is destined to live on.
The longest lasting happiness comes from soul-benifite.
The second longest lasting happiness comes from and through the mind.
And the shortest happiness comes from bodily pleasures.
Each of these pleasures are desirable.
But some things just last longer than our body.
Suffering and pain are hard wired into the human mental system.
The cure for all human suffering is not what it seems.
Happiness comes from within, but unhappiness also comes from within.
It’s mechanistic.
However, some people have pushed self decipline to its limits.
They are far more pain resistant than a common man or woman.
The worst pain is soul-pain.
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But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;
Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete,
go and sell your possessions and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
The christian idea of sacrificing the inferior for the superior.
Many things are more valuable than money.
My own idea of soul progression seems to relate to the idea of treasures in heaven.
However, my idea of soul progression is not God-based.
Extremism is always bad.
The middle way path was just a form of being reasonable.
Extremism can turn a good idea into a deadly cult.
Likewise, balance is always good, and if it is bad,
then it is not a harmonious balance.
The solution to suffering is one way at one time,
and in another place, different.
Nirvana is different for one person than it is for another.
There is more than one buddha.
Each buddha is unique and reasonably imperfect.
Meditation, reading and fine music, is good for the mind.
Building one’s intellect can lead to a door way,
to the soul and its truths.
Just like every nirvana is unique to that person,
so also is the practice of improvements.
Improvement looks different for different people.
Meditation is one aspect,
and in the sub sections of it, there are many methods,
which it would be fair if we tried each one of them.
What is wrong?
Causing suffering. The greater the suffering,
the more severe the sin. Ultimately suffering is an illusion,
but it is so hard wired that most people can’t control it much.
And so it may not be our fault when offense happens.
Some speak of the life of souls without defining if it rules and teaches us, or if we rule over and teach it.
Given that souls can only exist in minds, I would say we control and teach souls, if they exist.
Our natural materialistic duality thinking wants us to believe in our spiritual essence being outside of us, as in body/spirit or soul.
Gnostic Christians have found the truth of this and compete with all Gods, perpetually.
Regards
DL