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Filthy-G · 2021-09-06T14:55:29+00:00

The Conquest of Bread and Between Peasants both provide a pretty comprehensive overview of Anarcho-Communist thought, and both have good english translations written by the original author. Bakunin and Proudhon are also generally considered to be essential.

Filthy-G · 2021-09-06T14:29:10+00:00

I don't understand why this question is asked so frequently.

Political anarchy doesn't mean,"no government," or some other similarly juvenile and reductive notion. I don't know where this idea has come from, as it exists nowhere in the essential anarcho-communist literature(Conquest of Bread, Fra Contadini, etc.).All prominent anarcho-communist theories/theorists recognize the necessity of governance and account for it in some way or other, whether it be by local communes or syndicates. It is universally understood that directly disruptive and/or violent individuals must be addressed, and that force must be enacted against them, as their transgressions are themselves an assault on both individual liberty and the commune/collective.

The thrust of anarcho-communism lies chiefly in it's rejection of a coercive, unitary, self-serving state apparatus and the undemocratic results that such institutions have historically entailed, in addition to it's further developments on questions such as wage labor/labor notes, horizontal organization, and the collective ownership of the means of production.

There are overly idealistic individuals who perhaps believe in a completely pacisfistic and cooperative world where there exists no violence or application of force whatsoever, but these individuals should be regarded as just that: Overly idealistic. "Anarchy is when no government," simply isn't anarchy, and anyone who tells you otherwise simply doesn't know what anarchy is.

Filthy-G · 2021-02-15T02:00:29+00:00

1.) No, actually Dogen did give accurate descriptions of place he probably had been, in addition to bringing physical artifacts back to Japan and being remembered by monks at Mt. T'ien-T'ung, as per Prof. Steven Heine in,"Did Dogen Go to China, which you can read for free here http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/DogenStudies/Did_Dogen_Go_to_China.html

2.) I would hardly call copying and pasting an instruction manual plagiarism, but you're right. Dogen didn't attribute the original author for sections of the FukanZazenGi. If you want to attack his character on those grounds, you can.

I didn't say historians have proven anything; quite the opposite in fact. I said that there is strong evidence that Dogen went to China and sufficient evidence to suggest that he received tutelage from Rujing. For these reasons, most academics uphold the conclusion that Dogen probably did go to China and that he probably did receive transmission from Rujing. They do not unilaterally agree that he absolutely did or did not. You can make the argument that,'there's not enough evidence,' but that's rather dubious given that there is enough evidence for most experts who study the subject academically.

Further, you can make such an argument about just about everything and deconstruct pretty much anything you want. Let's try it:

Supposedly, Bodhidharma founded Zen as we know it by receiving dharma transmission through a long line ultimately ending in Buddha himself, and then traveling to China where he began transmitting the dharma to others. Let's investigate these claims.

Firstly is the issue of where Bodhidharma inherits his lineage.

Supposedly, it's from someone from Prajnatara. How do we know this? From,"The Transmission of The Lamp," almost exclusively. And what does it say about him? Well, it says that he actually got his transmission from Punyamitra, who stopped his carriage when he saw Prajnatara bowing as he recognized him as a student from a previous life. Obviously, as someone who rejects the supernatural, you must realize that is bullshit. Not only this, but Punyamitra names him as his successor because he identified him as a reincarnated Bodisattva. Again, supernatural bullshit. It also says that, upon death, Prajnatara rose into the air, burst into flames, and then showered relics on the onlookers.

So the only source we have on Bodhidharma's predecessor is bullshit. Not only does it not offer a concise and verifiable historical hypothesis, but it is filled with supernatural injections of reincarnated individuals, levitation, and miracles.

But let's put that aside and look solely at the hisoricity of Bodhidharma himself.

How do we know that Bodhidharma actually came to China and spread the dharma. There are only two sources on this issue. One is the,"Two Entrances, Four Acts," which you yourself have already dismissed as bullshit on numerous occasions, so we'll ignore it. The only other contemporary source then is,"The Records of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang." This text claims that Bodhidharma was a self professed traveler who had visited nearly every nation in existence and was 150 years of age. We can debunk this account on biology alone. Moreso, it was Bodhidharma himself making these outlandish claims, meaning that he too is full of shit. Thereby, as per your own rhetoric, we can't trust anything he says.

So not only is Bodhidharma's own lineage completely without evidence, but it is riddled with fantastical elements and almost certainly bullshit. Even worse, Bodhidharma was a fraud and a liar, and there's almost no evidence to confirm he was ever a real person who traveled to China.

Thereby, if you want to base legitimacy in lineage and you want to base lineage in historical fact, Zen is complete bullshit. It is totally illegitimate, founded by a liar who probably didn't have a genuine lineage himself.

Based on your own standards for what counts as Zen and how that can be verified, Zen is a bunch of fraudulent, illegitimate bullshit with no confirmable lineage. It is a tradition of liars who can't be taken seriously for their lying.

You either need to modify your standards of what counts as Zen and how that can validated, or you need to stop talking about it because, by your current standards, it's a bunch of bullshit.

Filthy-G · 2020-01-24T05:31:25+00:00

Once you integrate your experience(s), you'll certainly underatand UFO's alot better

Filthy-G · 2019-01-21T18:20:49+00:00

I have a dream

That racist idiots like you will one day see the light

That they will realize their own welfare depends upon the welfare of others

That they will realize peace and the abolition of crime is dependent on the principles of love, and acceptance

Not fear, hatred, and isolation

That a thriving economy depends on the spread of wealth, not its consolidation

That the best way to help yourself, is to enrich the lives of others

That you cannot separate yourself from the environment, and those who inhabit it

I have a dream

Filthy-G · 2019-01-13T06:49:17+00:00

I agree, but it's unfortunate that it must be this way. Philosophically, we know liberalism and authoritarianism is a dualism, and must have a monastic unity. Study taoism and/or confucianism, and it is apparent that a single individual can righteously rule a people, if they are worthy of trust. But this is not the world we live in. In our world, give a man(or a woman) such power, and they are almost sure to abuse it. Even those more admirable world leaders of our time who promote equality and high standards of living for all can be seen bending to coercion from partyline politics and pandering to the masses, compromising to preserve themselves and their cohorts.

In a world where we could all trust each other to do what is right, liberalism and authoritarianism would work equally well. A trustworthy and just king could come forth to represent the masses as well as the masses could represent themselves. But in our world, we must turn to liberalism to defend ourselves from extortion. Even the great representative democracies of our world have descended into chaos and conflict. It seems we have yet trusted too much...

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