Christianity is a credal religion with institutional authorities to enforce orthodoxy. Buddhism is an orthopraxic religion with no central authority.
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the closest thing to a creed that Buddhists will agree on is probably the Four Noble truths, but that's not so much a belief as it is an outline for the practice.
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Replying to @danlistensto @qwertyplication
obviously what Buddhism needs is a blockchain
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
Let me show the wackiest stuffhttp://reddit.com/r/altbuddhism
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Replying to @qwertyplication @chaosprime
there's always someone doing something terrible with it, no matter what it is
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there's a bitter irony in that though, since nominally one of the purposes of Buddhist practice is to make you better able to escape the insanity of ideology and conflict causes by aversion. but then some fucker runs head first into the aversion.
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Replying to @danlistensto @qwertyplication
might have slightly lawled at the first thread i opened up being this it's the circle of liiiiiiifepic.twitter.com/t6878VpOEE
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
https://www.reddit.com/r/AltBuddhism/comments/atq0ke/secular_vs_religious/ … This is the one I found very interesting. The first three sentences have a powerful rhetorical punch to itpic.twitter.com/IQaSU7DjHz
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Replying to @qwertyplication @chaosprime
have I mentioned lately how much I hate authoritarians and fundamentalists? that is my aversion and I am not looking to transcend it.
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no nirvana for me gotta go back and fuck with the fundies some more.
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imagine having so little confidence in the intrinsic authority of your dharma transmission though feeling it to be such a weak reed that it cannot stand without all this heavy stone and steel bracing
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it must be such a sad, scared thing to be a fundie
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Replying to @chaosprime @qwertyplication
it is the most highly concentrated manifestation of the klesas that I can think of.
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