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**BorBitExatini** · 05-30-2011, 04:57 AM

LOL "admit"?? People admitthings that are true, and they claim absurd assertions.

So go step in front of a semi on the highway, and then come back and tell me all about how it was only ever just "appearances", ok?

...just make sure your insurance is paid up....

The fact that these words on the screen are really just pixels of light is irrelevant to, and contributes nothing towards, the problems the Buddha was addressing. Those pixels of light on your retinas are trying to tell you that you are about to be roadkill stew, for example.

Your theory of " taking appearances to be real" and liking or disliking them because we think they are real when they are not is advaitaist absurdity.

Some people go on and on about how things are not real, yet they quail and crawfish when asked to prove their theory by stepping in front of a bus. LOL. Nice straw man, though. You havent asked me what I have experienced, though I can see why you would not want to know what the Buddha had to say, as it contradicts the superstitious mahayana assertions you are pushing in this Theravada forum.

There are lots of "Dhammas", including those of the mahayanists, the Brahmins, the xtians, and the Pastafarians. The Buddha did not claim, "This Dhamma is absolute, do not question it, it is pointless to question it". Not by a long shot.

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BorBitExatini Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 356 Senior Member	LOL "admit"?? People admitthings that are true, and they claim absurd assertions. So go step in front of a semi on the highway, and then come back and tell me all about how it was only ever just "appearances", ok? ...just make sure your insurance is paid up.... The fact that these words on the screen are really just pixels of light is irrelevant to, and contributes nothing towards, the problems the Buddha was addressing. Those pixels of light on your retinas are trying to tell you that you are about to be roadkill stew, for example. Your theory of " taking appearances to be real" and liking or disliking them because we think they are real when they are not is advaitaist absurdity. Some people go on and on about how things are not real, yet they quail and crawfish when asked to prove their theory by stepping in front of a bus. LOL. Nice straw man, though. You havent asked me what I have experienced, though I can see why you would not want to know what the Buddha had to say, as it contradicts the superstitious mahayana assertions you are pushing in this Theravada forum. There are lots of "Dhammas", including those of the mahayanists, the Brahmins, the xtians, and the Pastafarians. The Buddha did not claim, "This Dhamma is absolute, do not question it, it is pointless to question it". Not by a long shot.
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