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This is what I think!

Shawniedawn 5 Aug 9
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Level 7

The Dalai Lama is true.

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Level 9

I don't think havigtn a good heart needs the label of religion, but if it makes peopel kinder to one another, it's tolerable.

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Level 7

Yep

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Level 6

We seem to have been sold a notion that there's a small number of ways to live and each way comes with its own rules that are set in stone but , personally I like Noam Chomsky 's approach to this question of ' how we should live ' .
" just always follow your decent impulses "

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Level 8

Meaningless words when mouthed by the representative of a misogynistic religion.

Better than those who are religious trying to shove their beliefs down other people's throats or judging them for not following their religion. Gosh, this was just supposed to be a nice post, but I guess the haters gonna hate huh????

Perhaps he's trying to change it ?

@Cast1es Buddhism is not the innocuous ideology many people believe it is and no, the current Dalai Lama is not making significant reforms.
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Level 8

Meaningless words when mouthed by the representative of a misogynistic religion.

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Level 10

I don’t hold with Buddhism but I endorse his sentiment entirely.

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Level 8

Indeed! As my avatar so beautifully stated:

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

Thomas Paine

We need a second “Great enlightenment”. I am afraid we are regressing from the time of the great thinkers who revolutionised the world and progressed mankind from the dark ages!

@Marionville It feels like regression, doesn't it? And yet there are so many decent, competent and caring people, exchanging ideas and solving problems, that we never seem to hear about, except in the occasional TedTalk!
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Level 8

Yup.

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