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Hmmm, I do have a favorite name for guys, but not for girls. I honestly think that Beckett is the coolest guy's name, it's Irish.

You don't buy a horse without riding it first...

Im pretty much on the same boat as James except that I play tennis often (maybe 6 hours a week).

i totaly agree with ya cloricus, it defeats understanding

Those schools should not be public, and I protest that they are public, it is unconstitutional. I impled they should be private.

It should get the same kind of Federali money that porochial schools get.

I feel that wristcutter has the ture minimalist sig and that really appeals to me.

Bruce Lee started off with Gung Fu in Hong Kong, after he had advanced and compleeted his training of Gung Fu, he abbandoned all styles and began creating his own styless style called Jeet Kune Do. This style is only for the truly advanced students and corresponds philisophicaly with the Tao and Zen Buddhism.

We are a sad country indeed when we celebrate death and killing. Why the pictures, we had to proove it, it help Georgy Boy out because he has screwed himself by lying about Iraq in the first place. How many millions did it cost to kill them? You have operationaly cost of the helicopters and bombs and all the ammo our troops wasted, how pathetic does that make us look, it took us half the day to kill them...

Yeah, he is gone, kind of sad, he's been arround so long.

Zeit Gheist="Spirit of the Times" And no I have not arrived at conclusion because I doubt the very notion of conclusion.

What says your opinion is fact? What gives your argument more validity, the fact that more people in the world are afraid to think and let a church think for them? Just because more people belive it doesn't make it fact. I say that my date in in between two extreams, where it is ballenced. Just because a rock existes where the Bible says it does does not make a symbolic figgure exist.

You belief is opinion to the core, and I think it is reading the wrong metaphore, picking and chosing what facts suit you, and that's fine. Start from conclusion and work your way back. The Bible is not factual, it is pure Zeit Gheist. It is pure myth!!! Adam and Eve were the Babylonian God's Marduke and Ishtar, Abraham was a Zoroastrian from Babylon after all. Moses never existed, there is no historical data to back up wandering in the desert for 40 years, there is no historical data to support when exodus happened. But if you look at the METAPHORE, you see it is the decent of the patriarch into the land of the dead and what comes of the land is the united Hebrew people. And yes he could have been a Buddhist. They actualy sent missionares as far as Egypt, but again this is a dennotive mistake, my connotation thoughtout has been one of universal human spirituality and awakening in the same sense, not that he actualy was a Buddhist. Although he could have easily traveled to India from age 12-29.

Yeah, but don't Ninja have the Ninji-Do, some katana like sword except a little shorter?

Heh, I was volunteering teaching 3rd graders how to read (playing a little catch up), adn one of the kids I was teaching had ADHD...absolutly horrible to deal with the kid was off the wall all the time!

lol..."Those who know do not say-those who don't know say" I see it more as Zeite Gheist from ancient cultures. The problem is today people get to attached to the metaphore for religions that should have died in their times. The people butcher the metaphore because they see denotation instead of connotation. The book is called "Jesus and Buddha" (It really was pretty nifty). You might also want to pick up Joseph Campbell's "Occidental Mythology." It's nice to see a little historical inacuracy and a little commonality. "Buddhism for Dummies" is also nice. As for Jesus's blood...Heh, the resurection was before and the death after...Lol, you have more faith in the messenger and not the message, and that is where I see flaw in your metaphore. You immitate the messenger and feel it will save you, when in actuality as those Apocryphal document point out, YOU SHOULD BECOME THE MESSENGER! Now I'm not saying become Jesus in a day, nor am I saying that faith in the messenger is a bad thing, but I am saying that it is somewhere inbetween the the two. Time heals all, it also does horrible things in an oral tradition, really. I have great respect for faith, but doubt is what get's you an education. You read this denotivly instead of connotivly, doubt implies searching. You have arrived at conclusion, you have stoped seeking, now all you seek to do is defend your conclusion. Faith is a blinding shield, like I said it promotes Mideval thinking where you take the answer and make the facts fit it vs. Enlightened thinking where you take facts and them find your answer. It promoting this thinking it robbs valitity from your arguments.

I dunno, bot are pretty cool but I prefer monks better. Peaceful, quite, ministering to the people...Until you piss them off and they go all gung fu on your arse!

I wish I had a soulmate...I haven't met anyone like me, nope nope nope, only a few people with similar qualities and only a few people who understand me even slightly...Actualy, yeah I know some people who have me down pretty well...Soulmate, i dunno...

I take pride in saying that my parents made me who I am today, a cold anyaltical person on the outside, and a warm fuzzy anylitacal perosn on the inside.

genius...no, well informed because of bordem...So somewhere in between it all, just like everything else in life...I read/listen to alot of Joseph Campbell, so like him I start to see the symbols/motiefs/connotation of all myths and stories.

Heh, there is a book out called Jesus and Buddha, it shows NT stuff right next to dharma. As for Justin, you thinking is purely Mideval, taking the answer and then coming up with the fact, but then again your a fundie so I expected this from you. I doubt what the Bible say, sure, what rational person wouldn't take a 4-2 thousand year old manuscript with a grain of salt. And that's not to mention the stuff they left out. If you notice, quite a bit was left out actualy, and the Chuch MADE the Bible, not God. They pick and chose which sotires and who's writings went in. I have a chalenge for you. Chanlenge your faith. I ahve great respect for faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Don't become to attached to your metaphore that it blinds you.

Uh...Random internet site it is not :P I could go out and buy a hardcopy of the Apocrypha, but online translations are cheeper. The Apocrypha is the "Hidden Book" in Hebrew. It's all the cut books that didn't make the Bible. Lol, well I could dispute the accuracy of anything. People did not talk in Gospel verse now...The fragment of the Gospel was found in 1945, and it is dated to being writen only 20 years after Jesus's death in Arameic. If you check out Thomas and Phillip they offer a perspecitve that is very much like a Buddha conciousness awakening. They say that Jesus was not born the son of God but that he became so. Also the Gospel of Philip is more like actual non-religious writings and how people would have spoken back then. As for Siddhartha Buddha, that is incorrect. He was prince Siddhartha, but after his awakening he because Shakymuni Buddha (Shakymuni=enlighted one of the Shaky clan). Everyone forgets about the first part, so it just gets shortened to Buddha. Muhammed awoke in the same way as Buddha, he was a caravan dirver, but in his spare time he had a little can he went to to meditate (alot). And with enough introspection, he awoke, and he heard the voice say "write." I doubt the entire Bible because it was made by men. Men chose what sotries they wanted to use to carry a message, but wheter of not that was Jesus's total message is highly dubious. Most of the New Testemat was not writen until 60 years after his death, now I knwo some of you mught say that storied soculd be preserved accturalty, but you have to remember that this is an oral tradition bassed society, it's like playing telephone over 3 generations. But then you come to the real imprtant question, if Jesus were not the son of God, is his messages stil worthy, or would you all drop it? As for Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad being exactly alike, they are. Each recived an awakening arround age 30 and basicaly waht they all woke up to was God so to speak. They stoped seeing the world as dualist and started seeing the world of the spirit and the flesh as one and the same. They also seemed to see that we are all ablicaly interconnected and "one."

So, how many of you out there have read non-cannon Gospels? As you mgiht know the Bible was put together by the Catholic Church roughly 1500 years ago, but you just might ask yourself, what didn't they include? Some of the writings that were not included were the Gospels of Thomas and Phillip ([url]http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/gospels.htm[/url]). These gospels outline the fact that Jesus was a mortal man who basicaly woke up in the same sense that Shakyamuni Buddha and Mohammed woke up. They are very interesting, anyone want to comment? And I will ask, is the messenger mroe important than the message?

Goals. I have a few...I kind of want to learn how to do Zen meditation. I also want to get through college with a 4.0 and make a few friends while I'm there. I dunno, Med School sounds nice also. Oh yeah! Get my M.D. in Evil and take over the world ;)

I would go get myself and egg roll, and go back to spamming my Gaming Fourms, yup 1205 post after 2 years of hard work...