I'm not Buddhist. But the dalai lama has some good nuggets on occasion

Technically, about a billion people should be trying to overthrow capitalism now. Let's see if they do!

I hope they do. Neo liberalism is destroying humanity.

It should be pretty easy if they all work together.

"The encyclical, called "Fratelli Tutti," or "Brothers All," reiterated the pope's vision for a more communal society, which extends to the use of private property."

"...The Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute or inviolable..."

That there's revolutionary talk!

I don't think there is a right to private property either.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.NHHHbTz6iGQ9DYGf-ohVFgHaDf&pid=Api&P=0&w=358&h=169

That is correct. His mistake was not recognizing that the abolition of scarcity implies never yielding abundance. From his seat at the cusp of the industrial revolution I understand why.

Meanwhile I hear that the Pope has just handed over all church property to Oxfam. Good for him!

> Meanwhile I hear that the Pope has just handed over all church property to Oxfam. Good for him!
@ola
If they ever really did something like that, after years of using closet gay fake celibate clergy to ban inheritances outside the church, I'd suspect it was a molestation liability bankruptcy dodge.

They just lost another Archdiocese - the huge New York one, where they moved the Bridgeport, CT ArchBishop who helped them get convicted as felons, not for molestation but illegal discrimination in housing rentals. Nothing Facebook hasn't conspired in by how it markets targeted ads for users by whom that's criminal.

Hello @everyone I'm your local Buddhist Monk.

I'll be hosting an online Group Meditation beginning in just 15 minutes online through Zoom.

Welcome to join.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86817597540?pwd=bVBETkZrVW5FTDJuZUxQczM3Vm5rdz09

Password 31390 if needed

That's interesting

> Hello (everyone) I'm your local Buddhist Monk.
>
> I'll be hosting an online Group Meditation beginning in just 15 minutes online through Zoom.
>
> Welcome to join.
@Monk

Well, spotting a notice 150 of 15 minutes later is a Chinese curse of the net.

What's your path, lineage, or practice style?

WAG, you likely do activities regularly?


FYI, over-use of Everyone tags prodded me among others, to set the Discord option to suppress all at everyone tags. Travis's topic bombing contributed to that here, albeit there are some users and servers who are truly horrible about it.

@everyone



Beginning in less than 1 hour at 6am CDT

Metta meditation is a type of Buddhist meditation.

“Metta” means positive energy and kindness toward others.
The practice is also known as loving-kindness meditation.
The goal of metta meditation is to cultivate kindness for all beings, including yourself and all beings.

The main technique of metta meditation involves reciting positive phrases toward yourself and these beings.

Like other types of meditation, the practice is beneficial for mental, emotional, and physical health. It’s especially useful for reducing negative emotions toward yourself and other people.

While this is not a Book club persay we will be using the Book Loving Kindness in Plain English to guide our sessions.

If you'd like to read into the first chapter you're welcome to do so.
But regardless we will start the event by reading through it and than going into the practice.

Much like our Book club on Wednesdays we will have 2 sessions for Metta Mondays

The first will be at 6am CDT and the second will be at 10am CDT.

Hope to see you there.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87169440930?pwd=NkpWZ1Y1ZC85dDNKbk90aXdWb3VBQT09

That literally applies to you, too, Malachi

Oh? What's my religion?

Does anyone have an invite link to the Best Religious Debates server?

The anti-religion religion. Many here belong to it.

I used to think one could just "lack belief" or "lack religion" but, you seem as convicted of where the limitation of knowledge ends as any Christian I know, except your God is something approximating the self, or the collective consciousness of all selves.

From my perspective, that seems much more arbitrary than the notion that the source of all knowledge is **clearly** outside of humans and our consciousness. "Could God exist without humans?" Sure. It wouldn't be a very interesting Universe without us, but yes. God is that which allows for all things; that's, at the very core, how I see God.

What do YOU call "that which allows for all things"? Physics maybe? Or do you believe that nothing exists until we perceive it. Then where did "we" come from?

Anyway, tangent. Your religion is that of being against religion. That *is* a position. It's not a lack of one.

thats the biggest Oxymoron ive ever heard an "anti-religion religion"

a position on something isnt a religion

a religion is an attempt to explain nature and the cause of everything that we see around us and it is an absolute unchangeable truth

thats what a religion is

JP your failure is that you never ask enough questions. You are constantly telling me what I think. It is getting annoying.

I'm not against all religions. The Satanic Temple, and Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster seem just fine. Tarvuism seems great. Dudeism allows for robes, and beer.

What do I call that which allows for all things? I don't. It seems like a nonsense place to be. You are asking nonsense questions, answering them and then calling them God.

As followers of Dudeism would say, take it easy.

Scientology is as real a religion and worldview as is Christianity as is science

Science has better evidence and reproducibility

@JPMcGlone what is your definition of god

Because I don’t know where you’re coming from when you say god

So please tell me what you perceive god to be

God is whatever is outside human knowledge in his view

I’m going to hold off on believing you there because i want to hear it from him before I make any statements

So he doesn’t have the opportunity to say I’m misrepresenting his position or that I Didn’t let him define it before I said anything

The 2nd paragraph in his post

Oh yeah

I still don’t get it entirely so I want him to give a proper explanation

Science is 'collective concious of all selves'

Unless that was his proper explanation

But I’ll let him decide that