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Buddha tree alive and healthy at age 2,500
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Posted on 07/22/2012 6:21:13 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2,500 years is a long time. It is an understatement to say that a lot has changed since Buddha's days. On the other hand, when Caesar landed on Egypt, 2,500 years had passed since Giza Pyramids were built. Our perspective of time is rather narrow, it seems.
To: TigerLikesRooster; SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/22/2012 6:22:25 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Soon to be cut down by some Islamic ...
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posted on
07/22/2012 6:31:44 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
To: SkyDancer
I have many Chinese friends, all proud American Christians now. And they are Buddhists too. They see no conflict between the two philosophies.
To: SkyDancer
Soon to be cut down by some Islamic ...He'll have to work fast. More than likely a University of Alabama fan will poison it.
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posted on
07/22/2012 6:38:14 PM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
To: TigerLikesRooster
When the Giza Pyramids were being built, the Indus Valley Civilisation, a thousand or so miles away from this tree, but in western India, had rectangular-grid towns with stone tile-enclosed sewer lines and public pools. Then the Aryans took over.
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/22/2012 6:43:36 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They need to chop it down and count the rings just to make sure.
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posted on
07/22/2012 6:45:16 PM PDT
by
HarleyD
To: Scoutmaster
Soon to be cut down by some Islamic ... He'll have to work fast. More than likely a
University of Alabama fan will poison it.
???
To: HangnJudge
Some Univ of Alabama fan poisoned trees in Auburn
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/auburn-university-trees-poisoned-by-angry-alabama-fan
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:01:43 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Sorry but I don’t think Islam is a philosophy - unless it’s the philosophy of death.
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:03:32 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
To: theDentist
Some Univ of Alabama fan poisoned trees in Auburn Ahhh... Makes sense now
Cross state rivalries can get a little... testy
and Spike® 80DF herbicide is nasty stuff
http://www.dowagro.com/range/products/spike80DF.htm
I wonder if it works on Fig Trees?
Idle conjecture only
To: TigerLikesRooster
It won’t be if any Muslims are allowed near it.
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:13:41 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
To: knarf
Wow. That’s some fig tree. Does it bear fruit?
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:14:05 PM PDT
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Figment
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Then they aren’t Christians. Christ demands more than mere philosophy.
To: WorkingClassFilth
“Then they arent Christians”
They are devoted Christians. You don;t understand the philosophy of Buddhism. There’s really no significant problems involved between the two. One is religion, the other is a philosophy about life.
To: TigerLikesRooster
2,500 years is a long time. It is an understatement to say that a lot has changed since Buddha's days. On the other hand, when Caesar landed on Egypt, 2,500 years had passed since Giza Pyramids were built. Our perspective of time is rather narrow, it seems.Very true, and there are trees near my home, Bristlecone Pines, which are nearly 5,000 years old and still living.
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:34:23 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
You don't understand the philosophy of Buddhism. Four Noble Truths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path
IMHO, Nothing Here that looks inconsistent with Christ's teachings
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I think it is you, or your Buddhist friends, that don’t understand Christianity.
To: HangnJudge
Just a short pass - dinner is ready soon...
First, the basic idea of reincarnation is anti-Biblical because we are born to die once and after that judgement.
Second, the basis of suffering is sin, not desire.
We could probably go on all night, since Buddhism is constructed to consume and redifine truth on it’s terms, but fresh sweet corn I picked 20 minutes ago is just about ready and that trumps everything right now - metaphysical claptrap notwithstanding.
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