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KaelGotDwarves

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Re: Premarital sex talk :O
« Reply #285 on: October 06, 2011, 10:32:07 pm »
Quote from: Vector on October 06, 2011, 10:25:18 pm
Good man.  I can see that when I'm 35 or so I'm going to need to approach Thai, because the English translations are apparently ruddy terrible.

(It's been slated to 35 because some other languages, including Polish and Mandarin Chinese, have priority >_> <_<)
Allow me to introduce you to Abhayagiri Forest Monastery and some of Thanissaro Bhikkhu's English translations from the original Pali sometime. I have some books I can give you that are much better than the stuff you'd normally find. >.>
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Re: Premarital sex talk :O
« Reply #286 on: October 06, 2011, 10:46:38 pm »
Although shintobu wasn't very understanding during The feudal eras in japan...


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I would love to hear the proof of that.
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Re: Premarital sex talk :O
« Reply #287 on: October 07, 2011, 12:31:43 am »
A had a therapist who explained one take on reincarnation. I can't remember the exact details, but...

She told me that souls renter the world time and again until they reach their final state of enlightenment.
Every life a soul lives brings it experience, and it continues to experience life again and again until it finally experiences all it needs to. Then it is released, and dissipates into the world to be remade.

She told me this as an explanation to her saying that I sounded like an old soul.
I'm young, but at times I feel a hundred years old. I've felt much older than I actually am for as long as I can remember, people often commented when I was 10 years old it was like talking to someone that was 20.
So maybe she was onto something.


I can't shake the feeling life doesn't have anything more to give me.
I know I shouldn't think that way, but new experiences just don't really mean anything to me.

But life goes on, whether I like it or not.
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« Reply #288 on: October 07, 2011, 02:21:02 am »
Nah, it probably just means you're seeing yourself as a special snowflake for some reason.
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« Reply #289 on: October 07, 2011, 03:11:40 am »
Quote from: Virex on October 07, 2011, 02:21:02 am
Nah, it probably just means you're seeing yourself as a special snowflake for some reason.

Everyone is a special snowflake.

The problem is snowflakes melt.
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Re: Premarital sex talk :O
« Reply #290 on: October 07, 2011, 07:26:55 am »
Quote from: KaelGotDwarves on October 06, 2011, 10:32:07 pm
Quote from: Vector on October 06, 2011, 10:25:18 pm
Good man.  I can see that when I'm 35 or so I'm going to need to approach Thai, because the English translations are apparently ruddy terrible.

(It's been slated to 35 because some other languages, including Polish and Mandarin Chinese, have priority >_> <_<)
Allow me to introduce you to Abhayagiri Forest Monastery and some of Thanissaro Bhikkhu's English translations from the original Pali sometime. I have some books I can give you that are much better than the stuff you'd normally find. >.>
Books, you say? I will almost certainly never meet you, myself, so borrowing them directly is difficult. However, a Kael-originating endorsement is good enough for me! Is there any information in addition to that post that would be required to find similar copies of the same works?

I need to revise my methodology, apparently, you see. >__>
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Re: Premarital sex talk :O
« Reply #291 on: October 07, 2011, 07:35:09 am »
Quote from: Vester on October 07, 2011, 03:11:40 am
Quote from: Virex on October 07, 2011, 02:21:02 am
Nah, it probably just means you're seeing yourself as a special snowflake for some reason.

Everyone is a special snowflake.

The problem is snowflakes melt.

the other problem is that while you can see differences between two different snowflakes, really, you've seen one, you've seen em all.
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Re: Premarital sex talk :O
« Reply #292 on: October 07, 2011, 08:58:36 am »
Snowflakes are awesome regardless.
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« Reply #293 on: October 07, 2011, 08:59:07 am »
Still, they're all pretty much the same.
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« Reply #294 on: October 07, 2011, 09:01:56 am »
Until you get to the tiny details.
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« Reply #295 on: October 07, 2011, 09:30:07 am »
Quote from: kaijyuu on October 07, 2011, 09:01:56 am
Until you get to the tiny details.

But then they melt.
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« Reply #296 on: October 07, 2011, 09:33:39 am »
Beauty is often transient.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Premarital sex talk :O
« Reply #297 on: October 07, 2011, 09:40:25 am »
Quote from: Vector on October 06, 2011, 07:12:47 pm
There's also... you know... Buddhism...
Surely lack of contradiction isn't sufficient to imply something is correct, though.
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« Reply #298 on: October 07, 2011, 09:48:12 am »
*shrug*

It's how we do it over here in math-land.  It's consistent with it, it's consistent without it, might as well add it and find out what happens.
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« Reply #299 on: October 07, 2011, 10:12:28 am »
...Uh, is it?  Because there are an awful lot of things (I'd be tempted to say "infinite") that are "consistent" with reality but which have no evidence for them (Pastafarianism is one attempt to highlight that).  How exactly are we to choose which things we add to "find out what happens" (...which would surely be nothing, since we're not testing it in any way)?
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