From the same article you mentioned, but a bit further down:
What's more, the famously "affluent society" of hunter-gatherers, with plenty of time to gossip by the fire between hunts and gathers, turns out to be a bit of a myth, or at least an artefact of modern life. The measurements of time spent getting food by the !Kung omitted food-processing time and travel time, partly because the anthropologists gave their subjects lifts in their vehicles and lent them metal knives to process food.
1) Realising that suffering exists; 2) Realising there is an origin to suffering; 3) Realising there is a cessation of suffering; 4) Realising there is a path to the extinguisment of all suffering.
There is no explanation on how things have come to be the way they are. Buddha never dealt with such things. Buddhism is just meant to be a tool to extinguish suffering.
Does your screwdriver tell you how your computer was built? No: it's only a means of disassembling it.
Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.
In no occasion Buddha said that reality is created by the mind.
What is believe is that parent mistook the Buddhist concept that of karmic retribution where no bad consequences arise unless there is intention to harm with the concept of Solipsism. Of course, Solipsism has nothing to do with (mainstream) Buddhism.
Experiments have showed that what is commonly referred as "will" comes second to and is consequence to other unconscious stimuli from the brain. "Free will" might just be a last resort against these unconscious stimuli from becoming action.
"you can check buddhism : since the world only exists as part of the mind of people, it is not possible for people to cause accidents due to "not knowing" something, since they know about the entire world. So dig a hold in the sidewalk, camouflage it, and if someone falls into it you're sure buddhism is wrong."
--- I don't know almost anything about Islam, but I consider myself a Buddhist and I like to study its philosophy. I've never heard any authority claiming that the world exists only as a part of people's mind. Of course claiming that 'it is not possible for people to cause accidents due to "not knowing" something' goes against what is phenomenally evident so no Buddhist authority would ever claim it.
Maybe you have misunderstood some point of the Buddhist philosophy. I sincerely hope you can soon reach understanding of it.
As an averagely informed and thinking person, I share your feeling and I am day by day more worried about the deterioration of our planet's biodiversity.
I remember a few years ago I had to chase someone to give him back the money he forgot to collect from the ATM after he duly collected his card. It was 200 quid.
Unfortunately, there is no limit to human stupidity.
The point is, it's been/marketed/ as sketching evolutionary law, which is not the case. This is not a case of bad game design (although it might be) but a case of misleading marketing.
Last time it happened to me a couple of days ago. I dreamt I was heading to South Pole with Amundsen's expedition and there I found blueberries. Sometimes, my superego exaggerates a little bit.
I have mod points but I'll answer instead of modding you.
Unless you want "government" (or anything else) to be:
- Always in last place. - Have a questionable commitment to who it's serving versus the workers. - Low in overall quality. - Vague and often difficult to understand. - Controlled by a small cabal paid by corporations (yep, I said it... here's looking at you, kernel dev team!).
You could well say that the points you made are valid for Windows too. And for the latter, you could add the following point:
- Impossible to correct any fault which might arise
I live in China and I've lived in other parts of the world. I can tell you, girls here aren't prettier or uglier than in the USA, Canada, Europe, other parts of Asia, Oceania and South America.
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From the same article you mentioned, but a bit further down:
What's more, the famously "affluent society" of hunter-gatherers, with plenty of time to gossip by the fire between hunts and gathers, turns out to be a bit of a myth, or at least an artefact of modern life. The measurements of time spent getting food by the !Kung omitted food-processing time and travel time, partly because the anthropologists gave their subjects lifts in their vehicles and lent them metal knives to process food.
Very interesting read (I mean your link).
I cannot confirm.
As I am typing from China, I am downloading several torrents and using IsoHunt.
Another intersting wikipedia link is as follows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_evolution
Honestly, I don't think Buddhism deals with this.
Buddhism is just 4 things, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths
1) Realising that suffering exists;
2) Realising there is an origin to suffering;
3) Realising there is a cessation of suffering;
4) Realising there is a path to the extinguisment of all suffering.
There is no explanation on how things have come to be the way they are. Buddha never dealt with such things. Buddhism is just meant to be a tool to extinguish suffering.
Does your screwdriver tell you how your computer was built? No: it's only a means of disassembling it.
I hope this made things clearer for you.
I completely agree with your analysis.
Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.
In no occasion Buddha said that reality is created by the mind.
What is believe is that parent mistook the Buddhist concept that of karmic retribution where no bad consequences arise unless there is intention to harm with the concept of Solipsism. Of course, Solipsism has nothing to do with (mainstream) Buddhism.
Peace.
2) is more possible.
Experiments have showed that what is commonly referred as "will" comes second to and is consequence to other unconscious stimuli from the brain. "Free will" might just be a last resort against these unconscious stimuli from becoming action.
Just see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Neuroscience
"you can check buddhism : since the world only exists as part of the mind of people, it is not possible for people to cause accidents due to "not knowing" something, since they know about the entire world. So dig a hold in the sidewalk, camouflage it, and if someone falls into it you're sure buddhism is wrong."
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I don't know almost anything about Islam, but I consider myself a Buddhist and I like to study its philosophy. I've never heard any authority claiming that the world exists only as a part of people's mind. Of course claiming that 'it is not possible for people to cause accidents due to "not knowing" something' goes against what is phenomenally evident so no Buddhist authority would ever claim it.
Maybe you have misunderstood some point of the Buddhist philosophy. I sincerely hope you can soon reach understanding of it.
I find the responses on Slashdot disturbing.
As an averagely informed and thinking person, I share your feeling and I am day by day more worried about the deterioration of our planet's biodiversity.
You see where I'm going?
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Don't take it personally.
Anyway, you can't teach someone to respect other people's views by insulting them.
You're not likely to forget your money, are you?
Not really.
I remember a few years ago I had to chase someone to give him back the money he forgot to collect from the ATM after he duly collected his card. It was 200 quid.
Unfortunately, there is no limit to human stupidity.
The point is, it's been /marketed/ as sketching evolutionary law, which is not the case.
This is not a case of bad game design (although it might be) but a case of misleading marketing.
Last time it happened to me a couple of days ago. I dreamt I was heading to South Pole with Amundsen's expedition and there I found blueberries.
Sometimes, my superego exaggerates a little bit.
I have mod points but I'll answer instead of modding you.
Unless you want "government" (or anything else) to be:
- Always in last place.
- Have a questionable commitment to who it's serving versus the workers.
- Low in overall quality.
- Vague and often difficult to understand.
- Controlled by a small cabal paid by corporations (yep, I said it... here's looking at you, kernel dev team!).
You could well say that the points you made are valid for Windows too. And for the latter, you could add the following point:
- Impossible to correct any fault which might arise
I live in China and I've lived in other parts of the world. I can tell you, girls here aren't prettier or uglier than in the USA, Canada, Europe, other parts of Asia, Oceania and South America.
I wonder whether the UK govt will have the money to implement such a grand plan after the Zillion Quids Great Gift to the banks.
It's ecologically sustainable war.
Honestly, come and live in China and you'll be less spied upon than this.
I've never felt as free and anonymous as now, living in a not better identified middle-sized city in an anonymous province of China.
And then they say China is a repressive regime where you have no freedom.
Just like Bush announced victory in the war of Iraq /years/ before the retreat.
Having a moon base, on the other hand, would not be a major waste of funds.
No car will ever run on water. It's a chemical impossibility unless you're considering nuclear fusion.
Yeah... knowing this, I decided to just walk everywhere.
Or, inversely proportional to the number of pirates.
This makes me wonder, could it be that pirates feed on morons? We will never probably know now pirates are all gone...
Still better, ban work!
Woah, you got it. Congratulations, mate - it is the first time someone does.