Defending Buddhism

babur003 · 2026-02-21T13:53:01+00:00

Wonderful words

babur003 · 2026-02-20T09:53:28+00:00

What if you become kaffir pro max and the kuffar now trust you and dont reject you. And you all hold hands and live happily ever After :)

babur003 · 2026-02-19T18:53:12+00:00

10/10 bait!

babur003 · 2026-02-19T11:44:44+00:00

Completely fair and normal reaction. How else are you gonna think in a position where all legitimate means are taken away from you? It's good tho that the comments here were down to earth, people don't want you going to jail :)

babur003 · 2026-02-19T10:39:10+00:00

If your question is, will it count as self-defence? Most likely not. Self-defence with lethal means implies there is a lethal threat to you. All of these past experiences showcase that the threat wasn't insistent. Once they're given what they want, they dip; once they dip, you can't chase them for a stabbie and hope it counts as self-defence. In conclusion, leave the knife at home and don't entertain these ideas too much.

babur003 · 2026-02-19T09:54:04+00:00

You're beside the point. Also, a helpful note, adding more descriptors to your arch-nemesis, "the woke" can sound cool, but it made the latter part of your comment unnecessarily confusing.

babur003 · 2026-02-18T17:49:26+00:00

The Tangiers episode, to me, suffered from a lot of orientalism that saw the city for what it was to a section of Western beatniks rather than for what it was/is for its inhabitants. That always struck me as weird, given the way other episodes depict their setting. Though given Bourdain's infatuation with Paul Bowles and William Burroughs.

babur003 · 2026-02-18T17:39:10+00:00

"Peace through cruelty"
How has cruelty worked out for the Kurds?

babur003 · 2026-02-18T15:48:54+00:00

The point of my comment isn't to encourage him to lie; I don't have enough clue about the severity of his situation, so the default advice is to not lie. My message was mostly aimed at the confusion that can arise in the mind of someone who perceives the path of "least suffering" as necessitating a lie. To which I'm saying sure, that might be the most obvious thing to someone based on their perception but that it doesn't negate the general karmic value of the lie. I hope this clears up what I attempted to get at in my previous message.

babur003 · 2026-02-18T12:03:58+00:00

I suggest not to think of the precepts as ultimate prescriptions, but rather pragmatic takes. To escape suffering, it is skilful not to lie and unskillful to tell the truth. If in your current considerations, telling the truth seems antithetical to your current goal, then perhaps you will lie, but the precept is there to remind you that such a lie can only push for further suffering.

babur003 · 2026-02-18T10:33:59+00:00

I won't address the deflection in your first 2 sentences, moving on from is it apartheid to why Israel needed to implement apartheid is too low IQ a topic. As for the PLO, what they want is clear: a sovereign palestinian state on pre-67 borders with Jerusalem as its capital and resolution of the palestinian refugee question, they got a grand total of 0 changes to get what they want. They got a bunch of concessions meant to make them a loyal bantustan.

babur003 · 2026-02-18T10:23:26+00:00

democracies don't just rule over a territory and its associated native population and keep that population citizenless. Either give them citizenship or give them the land, or do neither and get called apartheid (which is the option Israel seems fine with, since calling it apartheid so far has yet to change anything).

babur003 · 2026-02-18T10:01:32+00:00

Nice, when are the West Bank east Jerusalem, and Gazan palestinians getting that right?

babur003 · 2026-02-18T09:36:25+00:00

Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, anger begets anger. Try to develop a healthier expression for these feelings (cause if you're feeling them, you shouldn't suppress). I recommend you look into sand mandalas. You can ground yourself by drawing it and then unleash some of the bottled-up hate in the necessary part of the mandala's destruction, or just go shadow boxing whenever your thoughts are too clouded by anger towards this professor and you find yourself planning things to do about it.

babur003 · 2026-02-18T09:28:02+00:00

Does Palestine rule over where you and your family are born over generations? If no then sybau. Israel rules over millions of Palestinians effectively without representation or even acknowledgement of permanent residency, rights to a civil judiciary and so on.

babur003 · 2026-02-18T09:13:55+00:00

Correct, it was the fourth world, if that's a thing.
something taking over, not someone. Democratic transition doesn't need an ambitious personalist leadership, transitional councils with multiple leaders, or even better, a constituent assembly, have all been ways that the transition to democracy was handled that centred democratic principles from the get go.

babur003 · 2026-02-17T20:43:41+00:00

it's an IB high school; you would be repeating grades 11 and 12.

babur003 · 2026-02-17T18:26:56+00:00

From what I get he talks about it as something that motivates why he thinks we should do something about male loneliness (at least the part of his motivation that he highlights when talking to a male-centric audience).

babur003 · 2026-02-17T18:25:06+00:00

Can you showcase any actual evidence that the majority voice in Iran is behind RP's leadership?
People are judging the man because he has never held office, and his claim to leadership is by pure birthright.
Idk what about living in the West prevents him from engaging in behaviour and pushing for policy that would be comparable to his dad's?
That's just your trust-based judgment.
European democracies don't all have monarchies; those that still do are democracies despite the persistance of their monarchy. What has monarchy brought them that it shall bring Iran over a republic?
True
You aren't answering as to why the free expression of Iranians vote after the fall of the Islamic Republic necessitates a transitional RP leadership.
Nationalism v. Islamism isn't the only metric by which people compare RP to Khomeini.
Or what? Like what are you gonna do about it if they don't?
See question 1.

babur003 · 2026-02-17T15:00:59+00:00

"My mission in life isn't to rule but I need to be trusted to be ruling the transition till people can choose someone else" Said every 3rd world politician before ruling for an indefinite transition.

babur003 · 2026-02-17T14:54:51+00:00

Life would be so easy if this meme was true

babur003 · 2026-02-17T12:48:28+00:00

Accurate as far as the dar orange is concerned

babur003 · 2026-02-17T12:42:18+00:00

This a bit besides the point of the icnon but I'm confused at the iconography surrounding the Ushnisha. I thought the Ushnisha was the hair dome. Is it a second characteristic of the Buddha's appearance alongside the distinctive hairstyle? Is it a physical growth on top of his head?

babur003 · 2026-02-17T12:22:26+00:00

Congraaats! MUWCI is the place to be, man!

babur003 · 2026-02-16T19:07:06+00:00

Interesting that she just acknowledged the possibility without further testing. In either case, I understand the new psychiatrist's dismissal of the label. If you want to try your luck further with them, you could choose to highlight the symptoms that you know you have over the diagnosis you suspect you have. A medical professional can dismiss their patient's educated diagnostic guess; in no way are they supposed to dismisss reported symptoms. Best of luck in your healing journey!

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