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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Sorry buddy the world always has an always will be ruled by authoritarians and fundamentalists, it’s just the flavor of them that differs
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Chaos Retweeted Dan listens to the world changing
sure, that's why he's trapped in samsarahttps://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1261318416876494849 …
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