The Off Topic Topic

[MadImmortalMan]

We should pay people to leave.

[katmai]

Ed Helms is in negotiations to star in New Line's planned Vacation reboot. Helms will play Rusty Griswold, the kid from the original films, who in the new movie will be all grown up and embarking on a vacation with his own family.

[Ed Anger]

ED ANGRY

[FunkMonk]

lol hollywood remakes

[Ed Anger]

Congratulations to Nancy Grace who got another one to suicide. 3 more and she's an Ace.

[Caliga]

I don't know how anybody can watch her show.  The woman literally makes my skin crawl.

[garbon]

I don't know how anybody can watch her show.  The woman literally makes my skin crawl.

She can be hilarious.

[katmai]

I don't know how anybody can watch her show.  The woman literally makes my skin crawl.

Considering you would do the Octomom, surprised any woman you wouldn't do.

[garbon]

I don't know how anybody can watch her show.  The woman literally makes my skin crawl.

Considering you would do the Octomom, surprised any woman you wouldn't do.

I wonder if he'll make it down to see her strip performance.

[jimmy olsen]

Buddhism has no god iirc.

That's not really what Buddhism says

[CountDeMoney]

I don't know how anybody can watch her show.  The woman literally makes my skin crawl.

She can be hilarious.

No kidding, I think she's a total blast.

[jimmy olsen]

After the Meiji Restoration, the new imperial government needed to rapidly modernize the polity and economy of Japan, and the Meiji oligarchy felt that those goals could only be accomplished through a strong sense of national unity and cultural identity, with State Shintōism as an essential counterweight to the imported Buddhism of the past, the Christianity and other western philosophies of the present..

In 1890, the Imperial Rescript on Education was issued, and students were required to ritually recite its oath to "offer yourselves courageously to the State" as well as protect the Imperial family.

Find  an 85-90 year old person who still has their faculties and they will still be able to recite that oath verbatim.

[jimmy olsen]

Bodhisattvas were living human beings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva

...

Specifically, bodhisattvas are humans who could, if they so wished, become buddhas but who delay this to aid other humans to achieve enlightenment - in many sects, by interceding to give to humans some of their accumulated kharmic virtue because that human has asked for it, and so allow that human to get to the Pure Land when they die.

This is functionally similar to sainthood. Catholics (put crudely) pray to saints to intercede for them, and so go to Heaven; some Buddhists ask bodhisattvas to intercede for them, and so go to the Pure Land.

In strict theory, praying to either saints or bodhisattvas doesn't make a whole lot of sense - why should either single you out, just cause you ask them? Bodhisattvas for example are supposed to give their merit to "all sentient beings" - but there you have it.

The monk who torched himself in Vietnam became a bodhisattva.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Quang_Duc#Intact_heart_and_symbolism

Intact heart and symbolism


The heart relic of Thích Quảng Đức

The body was re-cremated during the funeral, but Đức's heart remained intact and did not burn.[1] It was considered to be holy and placed in a glass chalice at Xá Lợi pagoda.[2] The intact heart relic[1] is regarded as a symbol of compassion. Đức has subsequently been revered by Vietnamese Buddhists as a bodhisattva (Bồ Tát), and accordingly is often referred to in Vietnamese as Bồ Tát Thích Quảng Đức.[3]

[Tamas]

After the Meiji Restoration, the new imperial government needed to rapidly modernize the polity and economy of Japan, and the Meiji oligarchy felt that those goals could only be accomplished through a strong sense of national unity and cultural identity, with State Shintōism as an essential counterweight to the imported Buddhism of the past, the Christianity and other western philosophies of the present..

In 1890, the Imperial Rescript on Education was issued, and students were required to ritually recite its oath to "offer yourselves courageously to the State" as well as protect the Imperial family.

Find  an 85-90 year old person who still has their faculties and they will still be able to recite that oath verbatim.

"I pledge allegiance, to the flag,....."

[CountDeMoney]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcuYjDR2tSg

Funny as balls at the :40 mark.   

I could only imagine this happening to my Mom reeling in her little bluegills and sunfish.