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Buddhas, Bicycles & Blunts ☭ socialism is the future. 🇪🇸 🇿🇦

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Sean Feucht
Sean Feucht@seanfeucht·
Karl Marx's body is in his grave, London. Nietzsche's body is in his grave, Lützen Muhammad's body is in his grave, Medina Buddha's body is in his grave, Pingliang But Christ's grave in Jerusalem —- and it has EMPTY for 2000 YEARS!!!
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Acyuta
Acyuta@atmainspiration·
@eldritchtiddies @durdfarm Not everybody wants to experience the Supreme Reality as an empty void with no activity. Some souls desire relationship, pastimes, ecstasy, and joy.
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Shinkyū
Shinkyū@durdfarm·
Oddly enough, Buddhism, which predates Christianity by about 500 years or so, exhibits the same innovation: de-ethnification. The difference is that the Buddha didn’t replace ethnic ritual with belief, but with a new set of practices, 1
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There's a reason why Christian sects bicker a lot. It's because the very structure of Christianity demands it claim a monopoly on truth. Christianity is a religious innovation... it's fundamentally different from all the religions that came before it, to the extent that I think we probably shouldn't use the same word to describe both. Prechristian religions, like Judaism or Shinto, are mostly codifications of the spiritual practices of a particular culture. They're not fine-line separable from being Hebrew, or Japanese. Christianity's innovation is that it is de-ethnified. It is a modified Judaism that has been stripped of its Hebrew character. This is why there is no such thing as "Judeo-Christian" values. They cannot exist any more than "Islamo-Shintoism", or "Asgardo-Buddhism" can. Ethnic and post-ethnic religions have completely different cores. This was the brilliant innovation of the Hebrew carpenter-turned-street-preacher. (It is unimportant for this discussion whether he was a divine being or not, and I don't want to get distracted arguing about it). The innovation, in other words, was precisely this... Judaism had to be de-Hebrewed before you could convert Romans to it. The Romans could not, in any practical sense, convert to Judaism, because they weren't Hebrew, and couldn't become Hebrew. But if the cultural elements were removed, they could. But how to do this? In ethnic religion, cultural elements are a load-bearing structure. The whole practice of Judaism is the practice of being Hebrew, in the same way that to practice Shinto ritual is to experience and re-affirm one's Japanese-ness and any non-Japanese who tried to "convert to" Shinto would just be larping. Christ's brilliant insight was that ethnic ritual could be replaced with cosmological belief. Ethnic religions practice ritual. The emphasis is on what you do. Asking whether the Japanese "believe in" kami is kind of a nonsense question. You don't pay respect to the kami of the local river because you "believe in him". You do it because you are Japanese, that's what Japanese people do, and that is, in some sense, what it means to be Japanese. Post-ethnic religions can span cultural identities because they are not based on cultural rituals, which you do, but on visions of the truth which you believe. Zeus doesn't care if you "believe in" him. He cares if you make burnt offerings to him, and respect his law that you shall not desecrate the bodies of the dead. Christ, on the other hand, doesn't want any burnt offerings, and doesn't require or rule out any actions. Even prohibited actions can be effectively erased by repentance, which is not a ritual act, but the acceptance of certain beliefs. The great insight and innovation here is that Romans couldn't and wouldn't do Hebrew ritual stuff, but Romans and Hebrews could both believe a thing, while remaining Roman and Hebrew, respectively. This meant that now you can make religions that are larger than tribes. And being larger, they can conquer tribes and rule the world. Which is what Christianity did. But with every strength comes a vulnerability. Christianity, being based in belief, is dependent on unity of belief. If two Christians disagree on a matter of faith, it cannot simply be tolerated as a matter of differing priority or perspective. There must be only one truth, and therefore one of them must be wrong. And a heretic. Any coexistence between Christian sects weakens that central pillar of unitary, unambiguous, unchanging truth. Thus, for Christianity to remain strong, there could be no disputation. And for a very long time, Christianity made this happen by having a central authority that killed all the dissenters, or terrified them into silence. But no central authority can last forever. That's where we are today. Christianity may no longer be able to enforce doctrinal conformity with secular punishment, but it still depends on that conformity, so it each sect attempts to enforce it socially. This is why when Japanese people watch Christians online, they seem to be forever arguing. It's because they are. They must. There can be only one truth, which must be entirely contained within Christianity. And it must be discovered, and asserted, and anyone who disagrees must be, at the very least, mistaken. Japanese people don't argue about whether kami are "real", because they don't need to. It's not important. They show respect, because they are Japanese. It is the polite and proper thing to do. This is the divide between ethnic and post-ethnic religion.

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Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧@TRobinsonNewEra·
Canary islands in "Modern Spain". This is what dirty Sanchez wants for the whole of the nation. Get him out. Only @Santi_ABASCAL @vox_es will save Spain 🇪🇸
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🦁 Maccabi Lev-Ari מכבי לב ארי
@TMT_arabic There is no city called “East Jerusalem”. There is a city called Jerusalem and it’s the capital of the State of Israel. No Europeans proclamation can’t change this eternal fact.
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Sean Feucht
Sean Feucht@seanfeucht·
India is home to over 2,000 unreached people groups. That’s nearly 1.4 BILLION people who have little to no access to the Gospel—many who have never heard the name of Jesus even once. No churches. No Bibles. No witness. This isn’t just a statistic—it’s a call. “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel…” — Mark 16:15 Let it start with us. 🔥🙏 Join us in the nations! Sign up today: lightacandle.global
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ganjananda
ganjananda@ganjananda·
@elonmusk If you can’t introspect you are incapable of learning
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ganjananda@ganjananda·
@BenGrahamUK @gitmogator33 @Pismo_B Were you confused about what type of holiday was being celebrated? Is there another holiday that has chocolate eggs? While we are on the topic please don’t claim chocolate eggs have anything to do with Christianity, Easter or the UK
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Ben Graham
Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK·
Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years. Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated. Yet now, Cadbury won’t even use the word ‘Easter’ on their eggs. When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?
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ganjananda
ganjananda@ganjananda·
@RockstarJay94 This was fine for me because I really wanted to learn because we had some amazing teachers and our monastery had a Buddhist college. How ever many dharma curios students did not stay and went to practice either Theravada or Tibetan Buddhism due to accessibility
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ganjananda@ganjananda·
@RockstarJay94 I would say the language barrier is the biggest hurdle to the spread of Chinese and Korean Buddhism. I’m saying this as someone who was ordained in the Chinese Mahayana tradition.
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JJ Ashoka Wong ☸️🏴
JJ Ashoka Wong ☸️🏴@RockstarJay94·
Did you know that there's a Sri Lankan Elder Buddhist Monk ordained in the Chinese tradition that can speaks 9 languages? Introducing Venerable Zhao Chu 照初长老, a Sri Lankan (Chinese Mahayana) Buddhist missionary monk who has contributed immensely to Buddhism worldwide, including prison and chaplain service in the U.S. At the ripe age of 77, he is the Vice Chairman of World Chinese Buddhist Sangha Congress, the only non-Chinese member of the board. Conversing fluently in Chinese to the interviewer, he has been carrying out missionary duties in the United States, Hong Kong, China and many more countries. He was the instrumental figure in pushing for the UN recognition of Vesak day that's celebrated annually in different countries. Venerable Zhao Chu says that to propagate Buddhism, we must use modern methods, not limited to past practices. When asked, what's his next aspiration after contributing so much to Buddhism, he said that he wishes to build a hospital or school in his Sri Lankan homeland, noting that he don't want to build another temple. He believes that Buddhism should go towards the people and not confined to temple grounds.
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Pio OraEtLabora
Pio OraEtLabora@pio_oraetlabora·
The Indians keep posting pictures of ancient stone hewn temples. Which by and large look the same. Very intricate patterns. But they all look the same. The European cathedrals are very unique. Each espousing different styles. It is a world of art inside the cathedrals. Each cathedral has a totally different artistic and architectural design.
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Humble Flow
Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
Medieval Christians built this while the Aztecs were still sacrificing babies to make the sun rise.
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Rothmus 🏴
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus·
I have a suggestion.
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ganjananda
ganjananda@ganjananda·
@MapWanderer2025 @Currentreport1 Why, this has noting to do with NATO. NATO is not an alliance for any activity. It is specifically designed for Europe and the US vs The USSR
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Map Wanderer 🇺🇸
Map Wanderer 🇺🇸@MapWanderer2025·
@Currentreport1 It’s time to cut off funding to NATO. If European so-called allies can’t stand with us when we need them then why should we spend billions of dollars defending them? Unacceptable.
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Current Report
Current Report@Currentreport1·
BREAKING: France has officially rejected Trump's request, saying it will not send warships to the Strait of Hormuz
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ganjananda
ganjananda@ganjananda·
@elonmusk If you still don’t understand that white people are a single nation then all the money in world can not save you
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ganjananda@ganjananda·
@nediyodukenson Also no doubt if a woman was in charge we would have installed a chute or ramp for the sacks to get to where the were needed with out maya labour
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ganjananda
ganjananda@ganjananda·
@TansuYegen Maybe the idea that girls are not able to walk down stairs unassisted is the problem.
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Tansu Yegen
Tansu Yegen@TansuYegen·
When they grow up, they're going to understand what they didn't know how to value...
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 BREAKING: An overwhelming poll just dropped finding President Trump's MAGA Republican approval rating at *98% PERCENT*, with just 2% disapproving — Fox News MASSIVE support from the base! Democrats keep thinking MAGA will abandon Trump, it's not happening 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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