Well that's not very Zen, now is it?

**Mich the Tester** · 15 August 2013, 09:23

Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

Are any of you hu-mans not religious nutcases?

One 'not religious nutcase' reporting for duty!

**d000hg** · 15 August 2013, 09:27

That's right you're just a regular humanist fruitcake

**NotAllThere** · 15 August 2013, 09:29

Better to be a fruitcake than a nut. Nuts are just so obsessed...!

**Mich the Tester** · 15 August 2013, 09:52

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

That's right you're just a regular humanist fruitcake

No, not even a humanist; they often have a bee in their bonnet about religion and I haven't. I'm not really an '-ist' of any sort, except sometimes a cyclist. I don't have an issue with religion; it works for some people but not for me as I don't believe the supernatural stuff.

**d000hg** · 15 August 2013, 10:55

Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

No, not even a humanist; they often have a bee in their bonnet about religion and I haven't. I'm not really an '-ist' of any sort, except sometimes a cyclist. I don't have an issue with religion; it works for some people but not for me as I don't believe the supernatural stuff.

Fine, you're just a plain fruitcake. Hmm, can you have a plain fruitcake... wouldn't that be a non-fruit cake?

**NotAllThere** · 15 August 2013, 11:01

Perhaps a fruit cake soaked in brandy.

**Mich the Tester** · 15 August 2013, 11:04

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

Perhaps a fruit cake soaked in brandy.

Yum yum.

**EternalOptimist** · 15 August 2013, 21:59

Originally posted by Jeff Maginty

I'm not an expert on religion or Buddhism, but I thought that one of the main principles of Buddhism was non-violence?

What I take from this news story, together with my own philosophical ponderings on the condition we call "life", is that no matter what one's spiritual beliefs are, as long as one is a physical being (ie a body that is "alive") one cannot escape the day-to-day struggles of life in the physical world in the sense of darwinian evolution. In other words, your religion or spiritual beliefs may inform you that violence is wrong, but sooner or later you are probably going to have to use violence if you want to protect/maintain your way of life without unwelcome outside interference.

What say the esteemed CUK panel?

Well, there might be something in that. I always thought it a bit odd to listen to non-violent Bhuddists, who would rather die than harm a fly, when their immune systems were killing billions of enemy microbes every day.
Vegetarians as well. It's all very well not killing an animal, but if less animals get husbanded, you are just killing them in a different way

anyways, if Bhudda was a non-violent vegetarian, how come he got to be such a fat cnt ?

Well that's not very Zen, now is it?