Re:The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
by saimiam on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:14PM
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I don’t understand this story. What lesson/joke am I seeing here?
Re:The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
by u1hcw9nx on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:22PM
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Raw truth is liberating. The moment people turn it into rigid systems, bureaucracies, political movements, or dogmatic institutions, it gets bogged down by ego, power struggles, hypocrisy, and rules. It starts to serve the evil.
Re:The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
by mwillis on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:26PM
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Organizing information could be considered its own form of (self-inflicted) torment.
Re:The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
by saimiam on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:47PM
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Ohhh, that’s why Google gave up its “dont be evil” stance!
Re:The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
by WorkerBee28474 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:59PM
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> Catholics surely put great effort into bureaucracy and organization.
My (completely unfounded) theory is that monasteries have historically been the refuge of those with autism and their comorbidities.
Re:The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
by joquarky on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:26PM
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> A friend of mine (who’s a very brilliant mathematician) once told a story that, in the beginning of the ages, God was making up a dictionary of all the words that would be used in language. And one day he visited the Archangel Gabriel, and they left the dictionary in the taxi. And while he was in talking to Gabriel, the devil got into the taxi and wrote into the dictionary two words: “ought” and “should.”
-- Alan Watts
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/four-ways-to-the...
"The devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, 'What did that man pick up?' 'He picked up a piece of Truth,' said the devil.'That is a very bad business for you, then,' said his friend.'Oh, not at all,' the devil replied, 'I am going to let him organize it.'"