Thomas_More
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Yes, and here we return to the Higher Buddhism.
To clarify:
There are two Buddhisms. One is the Higher Buddhism – a philosophy at least as old as Nagarjuna (look him up), and which can be comprehended in materialist terms (although it did not use the term). It is expressed in essays by the writer Lafcadio Hearn.The other is the Buddhism we know as the religion – with reincarnation, transmigration, state collaboration, and all the religious baloney. Surprisingly, the Higher Buddhism came first, and by definition was never an option for wide dissemination and adoption by princes or emperors, or modern states.
When a Himalayan hermit told Alexandra David-Neel that reincarnation is bunk, that’s how we know he belonged to the Higher Buddhism.
To put it in a nutshell, in Higher Buddhism the cosmos is one, including us, and all distinctions such as “oneself” are for purposes of daily life in society. They have no reality in cosmic terms.
In science, a theory is a system which incorporates proven facts and evidence and is therefore adopted as a valid way of thinking and explanation.
For instance, tracing the roots of the Etruscan language to one or another equally possible alternatives; one has one theory, the other another theory. But both have got to have reasons behind them which are valid in terms of analysis, linguistics, etc.
Creationism and flat earthism are not theories, because both have long since been disproven. Hence they have no validity.
Conspiraloons and the word ‘theory’ don’t go together. Don’t dignify their nonsense with the term ‘theory.’
Well, start threads on them then. They always do well here. Don’t criticise other threads you’ve no interest in.
If there was a Jesus at all, he was most likely a violent bandit chief from Galilee, along with two other bands, led by a Simon and a Judas, and anything but peaceful. They were dead long before the Christians came along and wrote stories to suit their own agenda, using the names of conveniently dead Galilean chiefs.
Indian express.com
scientists have now discovered that plants do indeed emit screams when they are cut or are dehydrated. And unlike the mandrake’s scream, which was believed to be fatal, the sounds that come out of plants when they suffer can only be heard by some animals and insects.
That was in The Dragons of Eden. It is one of two bizarre things in that book, the other being shaking hands with the left hand is everywhere taboo, because the left hand is used to wipe the anus after defecation.
Maybe left-handed people wipe their bottoms with the left hand, but I believe most of us use our right hands.In fact, do not the Jews take their name from Judah, not a religion but a country.
Kautsky explains all that.
When the rulers, warriors and officials of Judah were taken by the Babylonians as hostages into Babylonia, they had no longer anyone to rule and no subordinates, no slaves, and no country. All they had was their religion, which we call today Judaism. Which is why the term Jew has been conflated with the religion.
This became, in exile, a new religion. The Jews left behind in Judah, being the harmless peasantry, were freed by the Babylonians from the slavery their Jewish masters, now in exile, had subjected them to. The religion of these peasants remained that of the monolatrist, semi-polytheist, old form of the religion of the Hebrews.
When Cyrus freed the Jewish aristocracy, it returned to Judah, and unleashed religious tyranny on the peasantry, subjecting all Jews to the monotheism their exiled priesthood had developed while in exile. The priests took over, further conflating the religion with the nation.
(See Foundations of Christianity).
