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To: epicure who wrote (11341)4/14/2001 4:02:26 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 82486
 
I was merely talking about the internal significance of the tales of the miraculous in the two different traditions. You are, of course, free to reject such tales......



To: epicure who wrote (11341)4/14/2001 5:15:49 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 82486
 
Buddhism is a religious, monastic system, founded c. 500 B.C. on the basis of pantheistic Brahminism. The speculations of the Vedanta school of religious thought, in the eighth and following centuries, B.C., gave rise to several rival schemes of salvation. These movements started with the same morbid view that conscious life is a burden and nor worth the living, and that true happiness is to be had only in a state like dreamless sleep from from all desires, free from conscious action."

No wonder the Chinese Communists and the American Democrats love it so much! Prozac in word form.

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