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<blockquote data-quote="JimRinX" data-source="post: 117840" data-attributes="member: 6872"><p>SPN jis</p><p>Many interesting points of view expressed here; and, now that my laptop is back up, I'll try to address some more of them, as both an SPN-lovin' Buddhist - and an American!</p><p>All are right in their observations about Atheist's - they will meet God, whether they believe that or not; and, in it's always hard to comprehend manner, Karma (and they themselves - no matter how lost they may seem to we believers) is served by this; as having both Faith, and a lack of it, has a similar affect upon pones Dharma as learning to understand and truly appreciate Good through the experience of knowing Evil; as, in the long, slow slog through the mud towards enlightenment - where, like God, we will be free from our Mortal Kleishas (and, therefore, be allowed to live like a Demi-God, and interact with those Mortals still bound by Samsara; as only then will we have the True Wisdom required to be so trusted), many things that may not at first seem apparent - or to make any sense at all - are a necessary part of the process.</p><p>You simply will never be without Fear, Hatred, Anger, rancour, etc., without first experiencing them all, in order to see the evil of them; only then will we be allowed to do more than merely 'peek' at the Formless Realms - to see beyond Space and Time with total objectivity.</p><p>AusDesi ji. You are, of course, quite correct about the Founding Fathers (or, more appropriately, the man who so influenced them, Thomas Paine) sharing Beliefs that would do any Sikh or Buddhist Proud.</p><p>As far as today is concerned - I've personally been victimized by so-called Patriotic Americans who would (litterally!) like to go back to burning people at the stake! They haven't a CLUE what the Founding Fathers would have to say about these things; some even think we were rightly punnished, on 9/11, for the same reasons Osama bin Laden used to launch those attacks (I, BTW, am Pro-Peace, Pro-Palastinian, AND Pro-Jewish - as I'm of mixed heritage, and lost relatives to the Holocaust; I also have the Chingas to have scolded a Holocaust Survivor/Haganah-IDF {Predecesor to the Israeli Defense Force} friend of mine for treating Palastinians like "Vermin"! Very naughty of me to use THAT word - but it worked! he actually expressed sorrow for the 'Operation Cast Lead'/Gaza Bombing Victims several months later!); they think our allowing Homosexuals, Abortions, Women in Power, etc. have brought down Gods Wrath, blah, blah, blah.</p><p>When I rain on their parade with a little of their own 'Turn the other Cheek', or "You say Homs are 'sick' - soooooo, did Jesus KILL the Leper then?" (really all just the Bodhi-Dharma, put into Scriptural Words that they will recognize), or - last but not least - 'Love Thy Neighbor aas thou Love Theyself', that's when they rant and rave that I don't 'count' - I "don't have Jesus", I'm a 'Godless Idolitor' (they all think of Buddhist as Atheists - or start in on the 'Our God' vs 'Your God' Stuff. That, of course, leads to my saying, 'But you teach there's only ONE God' - at which point they stick their fingers in their ears and start going La, La, La....).</p><p>Do I, you may ask, have a Point?</p><p>YES - I DO!</p><p>I look at it like Churchill looked at Democracy when he said that, "Democracy is the worst possible form of Government in the world - with the possible exception of every other form of Government that's ever been tried before."</p><p>The First Amendment of our Constitution (First of the Ten 'Bill of Rights' Ammendments) forbids the State to do <em>anything</em> - pass a Law, erect a Statue with Public Funds, put the word 'God' in a Civic Document, require Prayer as part of a Civic Ceremony/Process - that might be construed as a move that would seem to be 'establishing' one Religion over another (or any religion at all, for that matter).</p><p>While the Founding Fathers created a Nation that was full of Racists (I've just learned of a certain Sikh Lumber Jack who was denied Citizenship! A Very Sad Story!), full of Puritans, full of 'Old World' ideals regarding Patronage, Fealty, Serfdom; I believe that, on the whole, we've done a pretty good job of changing the way that we see and react towards the world - and each other - because of these Great Ideals that were written into our Highest Laws.</p><p>Knowing the International Readership of SPN; let me say - I'm no fool! I know we've 'sinned' - politically, militarily, ethnically - but I also know that your average Supreme Court Justice (who've oversee the enforcement of these Bill of Rights Rights with Great Zeal) sees things the way i do; and we've come a long way - bringing many other Peoples with us (The French, the Average Brit - no more Oliver Twist, at least!) - because of these Noble Mens Vision.</p><p>At least three of them deserve the monicker 'Bodhisatva', in my opinion; what with all of the Good that came out of such a small thing.......</p><p>But then I've seen a Jewish ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union - also tasked with upholding the Bill of Rights) defend a NAZI Skinheads Civil Rights! But then, even though the NAZI would just as soon complete Hitlers Final Solution, the ACLU knows that it's only these Rights that have prevented us from sliding into a NAZI-type Tyranny ourselves - even if they've been slow to bring these benefits to Sikh-American Lumberjacks.</p><p>I'm reading Tacitus (Roman Consul, First Century CE) right now; so nothing could be more clear!</p><p>Next: Women, and their oppression by society. It's all up to that Monthly Thing, you know? Primitive Man not knowing about Ovum, Sperm, etc. - all that ******, stinky.....they couldn't understand! It, and therefore THEY, MUST be 'bad' - right? - they thought. Only time will erase the last of this unfair and ignorant relict (FGM - and teen brides too, I hope!) of our primitive past.</p><p>We will all be (or have been) Women in our past lives. Take a step towards God - and recieve the thousand back - by being the first on your street to join me in being a 'Liberated, Feminist, 21st century Man'.:yes:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JimRinX, post: 117840, member: 6872"] SPN jis Many interesting points of view expressed here; and, now that my laptop is back up, I'll try to address some more of them, as both an SPN-lovin' Buddhist - and an American! All are right in their observations about Atheist's - they will meet God, whether they believe that or not; and, in it's always hard to comprehend manner, Karma (and they themselves - no matter how lost they may seem to we believers) is served by this; as having both Faith, and a lack of it, has a similar affect upon pones Dharma as learning to understand and truly appreciate Good through the experience of knowing Evil; as, in the long, slow slog through the mud towards enlightenment - where, like God, we will be free from our Mortal Kleishas (and, therefore, be allowed to live like a Demi-God, and interact with those Mortals still bound by Samsara; as only then will we have the True Wisdom required to be so trusted), many things that may not at first seem apparent - or to make any sense at all - are a necessary part of the process. You simply will never be without Fear, Hatred, Anger, rancour, etc., without first experiencing them all, in order to see the evil of them; only then will we be allowed to do more than merely 'peek' at the Formless Realms - to see beyond Space and Time with total objectivity. AusDesi ji. You are, of course, quite correct about the Founding Fathers (or, more appropriately, the man who so influenced them, Thomas Paine) sharing Beliefs that would do any Sikh or Buddhist Proud. As far as today is concerned - I've personally been victimized by so-called Patriotic Americans who would (litterally!) like to go back to burning people at the stake! They haven't a CLUE what the Founding Fathers would have to say about these things; some even think we were rightly punnished, on 9/11, for the same reasons Osama bin Laden used to launch those attacks (I, BTW, am Pro-Peace, Pro-Palastinian, AND Pro-Jewish - as I'm of mixed heritage, and lost relatives to the Holocaust; I also have the Chingas to have scolded a Holocaust Survivor/Haganah-IDF {Predecesor to the Israeli Defense Force} friend of mine for treating Palastinians like "Vermin"! Very naughty of me to use THAT word - but it worked! he actually expressed sorrow for the 'Operation Cast Lead'/Gaza Bombing Victims several months later!); they think our allowing Homosexuals, Abortions, Women in Power, etc. have brought down Gods Wrath, blah, blah, blah. When I rain on their parade with a little of their own 'Turn the other Cheek', or "You say Homs are 'sick' - soooooo, did Jesus KILL the Leper then?" (really all just the Bodhi-Dharma, put into Scriptural Words that they will recognize), or - last but not least - 'Love Thy Neighbor aas thou Love Theyself', that's when they rant and rave that I don't 'count' - I "don't have Jesus", I'm a 'Godless Idolitor' (they all think of Buddhist as Atheists - or start in on the 'Our God' vs 'Your God' Stuff. That, of course, leads to my saying, 'But you teach there's only ONE God' - at which point they stick their fingers in their ears and start going La, La, La....). Do I, you may ask, have a Point? YES - I DO! I look at it like Churchill looked at Democracy when he said that, "Democracy is the worst possible form of Government in the world - with the possible exception of every other form of Government that's ever been tried before." The First Amendment of our Constitution (First of the Ten 'Bill of Rights' Ammendments) forbids the State to do [I]anything[/I] - pass a Law, erect a Statue with Public Funds, put the word 'God' in a Civic Document, require Prayer as part of a Civic Ceremony/Process - that might be construed as a move that would seem to be 'establishing' one Religion over another (or any religion at all, for that matter). While the Founding Fathers created a Nation that was full of Racists (I've just learned of a certain Sikh Lumber Jack who was denied Citizenship! A Very Sad Story!), full of Puritans, full of 'Old World' ideals regarding Patronage, Fealty, Serfdom; I believe that, on the whole, we've done a pretty good job of changing the way that we see and react towards the world - and each other - because of these Great Ideals that were written into our Highest Laws. Knowing the International Readership of SPN; let me say - I'm no fool! I know we've 'sinned' - politically, militarily, ethnically - but I also know that your average Supreme Court Justice (who've oversee the enforcement of these Bill of Rights Rights with Great Zeal) sees things the way i do; and we've come a long way - bringing many other Peoples with us (The French, the Average Brit - no more Oliver Twist, at least!) - because of these Noble Mens Vision. At least three of them deserve the monicker 'Bodhisatva', in my opinion; what with all of the Good that came out of such a small thing....... But then I've seen a Jewish ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union - also tasked with upholding the Bill of Rights) defend a NAZI Skinheads Civil Rights! But then, even though the NAZI would just as soon complete Hitlers Final Solution, the ACLU knows that it's only these Rights that have prevented us from sliding into a NAZI-type Tyranny ourselves - even if they've been slow to bring these benefits to Sikh-American Lumberjacks. I'm reading Tacitus (Roman Consul, First Century CE) right now; so nothing could be more clear! Next: Women, and their oppression by society. It's all up to that Monthly Thing, you know? Primitive Man not knowing about Ovum, Sperm, etc. - all that ******, stinky.....they couldn't understand! It, and therefore THEY, MUST be 'bad' - right? - they thought. Only time will erase the last of this unfair and ignorant relict (FGM - and teen brides too, I hope!) of our primitive past. We will all be (or have been) Women in our past lives. Take a step towards God - and recieve the thousand back - by being the first on your street to join me in being a 'Liberated, Feminist, 21st century Man'.:yes: [/QUOTE]
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