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Awesome comment. I think of this as the difference between Jesus and Buddha, which I have riffed about in other HN comments. Jesus says: You stand alone judge
by forkandwait 13y ago
Awesome comment. I think of this as the difference between Jesus and Buddha, which I have riffed about in other HN comments. Jesus says: You stand alone judged before God. Buddha says: Your supposed self is an illusion, the collectivity is all.
EDIT: I had an Alan Watts phase growing up, started by cool Episcopalian seminary students who lent me his books; Watts got ordained, then (I think) subsequently defrocked for his carousing.
- camperman 13y agoCareful - the new testament is _extremely_ collectivist and honor-shame based :) Individual judgement happens to be sure but is far from being the only one. Paul threatens the Corinthian church with a sort of collective judgement that would have brought them to their knees, the idea being that everyone's faults would have been paraded in front of everyone else publicly.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoIt's been a while since I've studied Buddhism, could you clarify what you mean by 'the collectivity'?