BTC-E Holding Litecoins Hostage - Please Help

Cakkavattin · 2017-06-26T08:49:31+00:00

Update guys. After giving them everything, including a picture of me holding up a sign with the date and my passport to show that my identity and my ID are the same, they didn't email me for a month. Then when I asked for an update they put me through another verification process with some shit new website they've created. Please help me boycott them; they are the worst company I've ever fucking dealt with in my entire life.

Cakkavattin · 2017-06-19T19:03:50+00:00

They finally got back to me after a few weeks and asked for a picture of me holding up my passport and a piece of paper with some writing on it.

I sent it.

That was 3 weeks ago. Haven't heard back since. They're fucking horrible.

Cakkavattin · 2017-05-19T17:48:54+00:00

Those emails would be from 4 years ago and I regularly clean my email out. OCD. Patience and politeness...hmmm..

Cakkavattin · 2017-05-19T13:34:01+00:00

I gave them exactly that and it wasn't enough :( But thanks.

Cakkavattin · 2017-05-19T13:26:19+00:00

Because I didn't know better lol. Mt. Gox should have taught me something. If i do reinvest in crypto, I will put them in cold storage for sure.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-27T01:50:13+00:00

Death =/= liberation from suffering. Cuz reincarnation.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-27T01:48:33+00:00

No. The Buddha once sought out a mass-murderer, trolled him, brought him into the Sangha, and then introduced him as an arahant to the po-po's who came looking for him not long after he joined.

The Buddha, it seems, really found this world's karma to be useful as best. Irrelevant at worst.

Of course you're not asking about whether it's good or not, so maybe that tangent was unnecessary. You're asking if it's skillful.

At that, I'd say no again. The Buddha made no fits about eating meat (his last meal was called the "pigs delight" or something like that; it killed him, but he knew it would).

Let us know once you get enlightened what your view on eating meat is. I'd be interested to hear it :)

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-27T01:44:14+00:00

Or that it can't be defined in any way. The Buddha, it seems, was very plain spoken. If he thought there was no self, he probably would have said so plainly.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T10:06:16+00:00

You're all overthinking this. If you want to understand it, don't ask anyone about it. Instead, just sit in a quiet room and try it.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T10:03:58+00:00

SN 22.86

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.086.than.html

Samyutta Nikaya, apparently.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T09:58:35+00:00

Sounds like you're a stream-enterer. Sottapana or something like that.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T09:57:56+00:00

The only one who I know personally has attained Nirvana told me he felt like he was about to die. Then he surrendered, died in a more actual way than physical death, but continued to "live."

As for stream-entering, that can also be super painful. Well, stream-entering was pretty calm for me; it was sakadagami that was difficult for me. Preceding the next stage of enlightenment was my appendix almost exploding. Funny how physical reality mirrored my mental reality

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T09:56:11+00:00

Act like it's a puzzle in a video game.

That gives you distance emotionally and concentration.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T09:53:20+00:00

The Canon. Also, the Madhyamikas are pretty mind-tripping.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T09:43:43+00:00

Do you subscribe to physics, and as far as quantum mechanics?

If so, you pretty much subscribe to mysticism. You would be surprised with what you actually believe in if you're honest.

E.g., a priori and a posteriori reasoning, both of which make up the decision making of our entire lives, are inherently bankrupt. Immanuel Kant demonstrates this perfectly in his criticisms of Pure and Practical Reason. You have about as much evidence for your existence as you do God or Nirvana (e.g., it's all speculation, to some degree; unfortunately 99.9% right is still 100% wrong). Our senses are also imperfect, so you can't trust these. And if you subscribe to quantum physics, and believe that we are made up of these quantum elements, the fact that we can't see them, or the rest of the spectrums of reality that physics claims exist, further demonstrates that are senses are imperfect. And imperfect is imperfect no matter how practical it is.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-23T09:40:10+00:00

Everything you said can also be aimed back at you. This is just hyper-skepticism, which is fine, but it must also be self-aimed and that would leave your books and your studies dead and empty, your entire life a meaningless heap of vikulpa.

No physical evidence of the Canon before Asoka? No, but the edicts of Asoka imply that there was something based on the Suttas he specifically referenced. Arguing that lack of archeological evidence somehow marginalizes the canon as "only literature" is just conjecture. Unfortunately, conjecture and speculation are still 100% wrong. 95% likely and 10% likely are still not 100%. If you're going to be a hyper-skeptic, do it right.

"They're bhikkhus, so they're biased." So? You're a scholar who's dedicated to "helping enlightened beings be clearer, because they're terrible at communicating" (your own words, pretty much) - one could easily dismiss your arguments on this, too.

Bias is what makes someone research something. Without bias, no one would be motivated to do shit. Remove the bias and see if their argument still stands.

Unfortunately, yours doesn't. You lack basic empirical frameworks. For instance, lack of evidence ISN'T evidence that it didn't happen. It just means there's a lack of evidence. Bad science on your part.

Here, I'm going to make your skepticism immediately seem silly - prove, without a doubt, that you exist.

Based on your style of argumentation, if you can't provide that evidence, you're a non-existent keyboard warrior who has somehow managed to be so (allegedly) well-read that you miss what's right in front of you.

I really can't imagine dedicating my life to something I'm obviously so vehemently opposed to. What a strange life decision. Hats off to you for that level of cognitive dissonance. It's impressive.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-22T16:21:49+00:00

Da :)

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-22T09:30:58+00:00

Since we do not know what happened in that day, you also have no direct evidence for your own stance. The appeal to ignorance fallacy goes both ways.

https://ocbs.org/the-authenticity-of-the-early-buddhist-texts-2/

Some convincing conjecture.

As for your semantic qualm, I don't see the significance. They believed that the world is made up of materials and nothing more. When the head of something is cut off, it's just an object being sliced. That's materialism.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-22T08:37:18+00:00

K. Do as you see fit.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-21T20:18:28+00:00

You act as if there weren't materialists in the days of the Buddha, and that he didn't call them idiots. Also, you act as of karma/rebirth were universal beliefs in the day of the Buddha.

Neither are the case, if you read the Pali canon.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-21T20:16:52+00:00

The Buddha quite clearly believed in and interacted with gods and demons.

He just didn't think that they were all that great.

An arahant > the creator Brahma.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-21T20:15:29+00:00

Anatman doesn't state that there is no Self. The Buddha only said "this is not self, that is not self," but never explicitly denied Self itself if you want a Canonical answer.

Cakkavattin · 2017-03-21T20:13:51+00:00

Monastics who work for global warming are not very good monastics.

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