tln750

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by tln750 5y ago
"Manufacturing consent" has to be the seminal term that defines the age we live in. The dust hasn't even settled on the Afghanistan disaster, and already the propaganda machine is spinning at full speed trying to build the ne
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by tln750 5y ago
Indeed. The quality of life that developed countries in the west currently enjoy is still the yardstick for poorer regions, as they improve their infrastructure and public amenities. To judge other people as materialistic while living in th
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by tln750 5y ago
I am out of the thread. Not interested in engaging anymore with silly, trollish bile that is regurgitated from a reservoir of rancor and insecurity. But it's quite clear that the essay managed to rattle your threadbare, befuddled convi
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by tln750 5y ago
Imagine having a mind that is so saturated with hatred and propaganda that a young girl's cry of despair from 1855, protesting against centuries upon centuries of oppression and brutality, is blithely discarded as 'atrocity litera
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by tln750 5y ago
Your assertion that there is no doctrinal difference between Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta is ludicrous and downright silly. Even Wikipedia clarifies this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara From the second para
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by tln750 5y ago
Liberation in Advaita Vedanta is attaining the realization that one's individual self is identical with Brahman, posited as Higher Self. This is diametrically at odds with the anatta (not-self) doctrine of the Buddha. There is simply n
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by tln750 5y ago
The Pali Canon contains the kernel of the Buddha's Teaching. It is not difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and arrive at the essence of what the Buddha taught. A guide on how to approach the discourses: https://su
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by tln750 5y ago
This obsession with trying to somehow make the Buddha and his teaching as a branch of Hinduism falls flat on its face when you look at his teaching even cursorily. The central tenet of the Buddha's position was his exposition of anatta
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by tln750 5y ago
As for the new narrative being heavily pushed these days that the caste system is a remnant of British colonial times, a few words from an Untouchable girl can correct it - written in the year 1855. From the essay: Earlier, Gokhale, Apate,
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by tln750 5y ago
What an absolutely shocking misrepresentation of the Buddha ! The Buddha rejected the authority of the Vedas entirely and this infuriated the Brahmins of that time. He had both philosophical and pragmatic objections to the theistic stance o
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by tln750 6y ago
It is becoming more and more dispiriting to see how FOSS is used to build massive empires of surveillance which gather oceans of private data with almost no oversight. And the strategy that has become well-established now is to build a &#x2
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by tln750 6y ago
Indeed. I think a massive social upheaval needs to happen here in India - and I honestly don't know if it will ever happen. Tossing around numbers in the range of billions and trillions is kinda useless if every time I venture out of m
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by tln750 6y ago
I see the hatred of companies for the GPL as one of the main issues here. GCC was a thorn in the plans envisioned by companies to take advantage of FOSS. LLVM was a godsend and it allowed companies to spread the influence of their new softw