Nepal Boy Called Reincarnation of Buddha

Yahoo News ^ | Nov 22nd 2005

[minus_273]

he is a reincarnation of A buddha not THE buddha. Buddha is jsut an enlightned person

[hinckley buzzard]

"We could not say what happens after dark," Mahat said. "People only saw what went on in the day, and many believed he was some kind of god."

How quaint.

[hinckley buzzard]

None of the other 2 Abrahamic religions require as much sacrifice as Islam does. Personally I think all organized religion is BS.

Makes sense, considering you apparently know so little about any of them.

[wideawake]

why do we call the first meal of the day- breakfast?

Ah, the etymological fallacy.

Remember, you can't understand something unless you're literally standing under it.

However, even ignoring the EF, you've hardly made your point.

Breakfast was called breakfast because during the Middle Ages, Lenten fasting was considered broken if one ate before midday.

Therfore a morning meal, by definition, broke the fast.

By the late Middle Ages a morning collation was permitted for those who did manual labor.

The idea of a fast has always been to severely limit the amount of food consumed.

In Islam, one may gorge oneself to bursting on any day in Ramadan as long as it is dark outside.

In traditional Christian Lenten observance, no gorging was ever permitted - it was one normal meal per day, usually in the early evening and a collation of a slice of bread or equivalent at some other tiome in the day.

That's fasting.

[Prodigal Son]

In Islam, one may gorge oneself to bursting on any day in Ramadan as long as it is dark outside.

Exactly. No one has claimed otherwise. Sometimes I fast for 12 hours. Sometimes for three or four days. I don't care what you call it.

you've hardly made your point.

Wasn't making a point. I honestly don't care.