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Gautama

I was just ranting a lil' bit, but now you've gone and dun it. *sigh* Looks like this is going to turn into a philosophical debate. You started it. :) I am by no means attempting to disprove all absolutes. In fact, I am more interested in proving that everything in existence, so-to-speak, is parado...

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Thoughts require independent external stimuli, which can only be provided by a constant, independent reality. If reality were constant and independent, it would not be identical with our ever-changing perception of reality, which is not constant, and is causally dependent. The perception of reality...

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Falseglory, I believe you are thinking of Calvinism.

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Yes that sounds bad, but we used the definition "a religion or sect considered to be FALSE, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader" (Dictionary.com "Cult" 6) like in how we believe that ever...

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To mod who changed the titles: I see no flame war here, just a careful attempt to bring the "debate" back into discussion and debate, and to measure the forum. It's hard to do while wearing kid gloves, but I know you guys have your own comfort zone. Personally, I feel like a Carebear. To t...

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If life has meaning, it can be nothing other than the conditions for life. Doing without trifles would bring someone closer to these essentials. If doing as much meaningful activity as possible, at the expense of non-meaningful activity, is virtuous, it would be virtuous to reduce oneself to near no...

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No, no, when you said, I don't feel the urge to explain myself much though. I thought you didn't want to go into more detail. I kept my reply as brief as humanly possible. I can understand how discovering Buddhism can be like finding the vocabulary to express secular thoughts you already had. Also, ...

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Safisan, I'd agree with that. Every thing has a cause. What drives me to caution is if we have something like an eternal cycle between periods of expansion and contraction, supposing we take "Eastern" views seriously, because then even if we pin the causes of our universe down, these cause...

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Buddha of past and future and all. Buddha-face. :| While I can't take a picture and smother it in someone's face, I can tell you a world doesn't just appear spontaneously and that even if theories like the big bang are true, there had to be something to cause them or provide the necessary beginning...

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I'm very willing to discuss matters of faith (or lack thereof :) ) and comparative religion. It's one of my passions. I will not, however, tolerate anyone making assumptions of me based on the statement "I believe in a God", or who are simply antagonistic and want to start a fight. I'm op...

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Oh, if you guys haven't figured it out yet, I'd be joking this whole while, your petty religious debates don't attract any attention from me. I can make it less of a petty debate, and more a civil discussion, if you wish. Just a second while edit in something to the OP that shows that I'm not inter...

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inb4 flame war and this thread becoming atheists versus Christianity Let's assume that everyone has been in a thread like you've described. That should give them some motive to be civil. There are more religions than Christianity, and more merit to Christianity than it often gets credit for. I'm gi...

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Which religion do you follow? What's your strongest justification (even if it's just cause and effect) for believing in it? Similarly, if you are irreligious, why?

[EDIT: if you wish, and have a favourite passage from your religion's texts, feel free to share it.[

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Matthias, Whether any of you actually confess to this or not, we all have an egotistical side that reigns every once in a while. Lets not try to act like we don't. Making egotism common does not make it any more of a virtue. I've seen it more common that those who have gotten 'owned' or just get 'je...

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Notice how I say high-level instead of overpowered? If it's high-level, that means it's incredibly powerful, and near-unbeatable. Only when an incompetent player enters the room, does it turn into an overpowered character. High-powered characters require skilled players. I think I agree with that. ...

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In the chat, several forum members discussed an over-powered member of a competing RP site. They criticized him as being extremely egotistical, and advised those unfamiliar with this juggernaut not to even bother roleplaying with him. It makes me wonder if the escapism of roleplaying is related to s...

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Kronos , Ultimately, wisdom is experience and understanding about the truth of reality. It's as simple as that to define - and much much harder to ever understand or achieve. We can never really know. We can’t achieve understanding of the truths of reality? What gets in our way? Anthon Noire , So w...

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Law, I believe that perfect is impossible to achieve in any aspect. I can't think of a ready counter-example, but I guess that's what I'd need to argue this point. Alvaron, If we become perfect, what is there to strive for. What if striving is a condition of perfect wisdom? and it is the people who...

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When a Buddhist talks about the perfection of wisdom, is this believable?

In the first place, what is wisdom? What makes it so special that someone would want to perfect it? And finally, given answers to the last two questions, can someone perfect it?

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Kronos , I think I'm imagining a infinite closed system. I'm still sure you are imagining a temporal system. In a temporal system, things "start somehow", and they also finish. Remove time from the equation, and you find timeless truths. Everything that is not infinite is finite, and thus...

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