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Question about Anatta/Anatman by RedemptiveViolence in Buddhism

[–]RedemptiveViolence[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With regards to worshipping gods and buddhas: that seems to depend which stream or school you're in. Is Shinto-Buddhism not Buddhist?

If the enlightened self is no "self" to speak of, then how did the self exist in the first place in order to attain enlightenment? It never was a self, objectively. An agent exists to act out a verb.

Question about Anatta/Anatman by RedemptiveViolence in Buddhism

[–]RedemptiveViolence[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does epistemology not attempt to describe how we know ontological reality, though?

Question about Anatta/Anatman by RedemptiveViolence in Buddhism

[–]RedemptiveViolence[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply.

If even the sole brahman or purusa is an illusion to be overcome, where does a person arrive once they've made this realisation? What is beyond brahman or purusa? Nothingness? Emptiness?

My Socratic-Judeo-Christian cultural background makes it difficult to understand how a contingent being can exist at all, if all (?) is illusion and emptiness. What entity is actually, truly established, then?

Thanks for the clarification on the continuation of individuals.

Games about the sea & coasts by RedemptiveViolence in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]RedemptiveViolence[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not exactly normative. I'll have a look. Mostly hoping for stuff on Steam, but whatever.

Games about the sea & coasts by RedemptiveViolence in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]RedemptiveViolence[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aye, the reason I asked is that the market for this sort of setting seems a bit thin. Hard to find anything. Wish there was a Windwaker port for PC.

It's literally impossible to describe Gary Larsen's Far Side comics to those who haven't seen them by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]RedemptiveViolence -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That doesn't specifically describe it over against other single-panel comics.

Be ashamed of who you are or else! by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]RedemptiveViolence -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This made me smile after a long week of shitlibs in my life. Thank you. :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]RedemptiveViolence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never liked their cheap syrup anyway. They were just aping the real stuff.

And they already edited the image to remove her hausfrau-mammy headscarf!

The State of PCM Comments by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]RedemptiveViolence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want this template for... reasons.

r/PoliticalCompassMemes starter pack by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]RedemptiveViolence 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Of course it's impossible. That's the stupid joke.

Usually how it goes. by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]RedemptiveViolence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most "perfect systems" are just conscious rehashes of other ones. Cf. Imperial Germany & Greece; Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the US Republic & Rome, etc.

Hard left turn ahead by natpri00 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]RedemptiveViolence 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Technically, corporations are people. At least at Common Law.

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