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| Kamidio | May 20 2012, 06:49 PM Post #16 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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I fail to see how a benevolent dictatorship is bad. After all, it isn't any different from a MONARCHY. |
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| lamna | May 20 2012, 07:10 PM Post #17 |
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Wow, I was a little shit all those years ago.
Wrong, a monarchy did all that nasty stuff centuries ago, so it's ok. Actually I think I may have changed my position. Which is better, good autocracy or bad democracy? |
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| Dragon | May 20 2012, 07:52 PM Post #18 |
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/r/GamingCirclejerk is the best subreddit, don't @ me
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A good autocracy would be better than a bad democracy, definitely. |
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"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16 A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy
I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now Click for something good. Click this too. | |
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| Ànraich | May 20 2012, 08:39 PM Post #19 |
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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First of all, I said the place was amazing, not the government. Though any government that has an official with the title "Dragon King" can't be all that bad. Secondly, I was a Buddhist for most of my life and I can tell you that your assumptions about Buddhism are just plain wrong. Mainstream Buddhism, as in the kind that hasn't been corrupted by Hindus who just couldn't let go of their beliefs or those crazy Chinese doesn't believe in jack shit. Literally, they believe in no gods, no spirits, no afterlife; not even reincarnation. The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to achieve Nirvana, "nothingness." You achieve peace with yourself and your place in life so that when the time comes for you to die you can fade away into nothing happily and without fear. I mean you'll achieve Nirvana either way, because it's not like you're going to live forever, but telling people that they'll cease existing when they die so they should do whatever they want now while they have the chance isn't a very good basis for a religion. Finally, you have a very, very twisted sense of what Buddhists mean by desire is the cause of suffering. Let me explain it to you how it was explained to me: Let's say you want a new car. You go out, pick out the nicest car you can afford, and then spend the next ten years pouring money into it because it's a car and all they ever do is break down, get scratched and dinged, and crash into other people because they're idiots and don't know how to drive and I swear it wasn't my fault. So then, ten years after getting the car you desired so badly, you've taken to calling it "shit-mobile" and hate it's guts and yours for buying it. The point isn't to not want things, telling a living creature to not want stuff is as silly as telling a rock to stop being so solid. The point is to get people to be wary of their desires and how it will inevitably go completely wrong. Of course I wouldn't take much of my teachings to heart. My llama was a great teacher and a wonderful person, but he was also arrested for ingesting copious amounts of cough syrup and running through the streets screaming that he was Jesus. I assure you though, he was an actual llama (not the animal) and not a madman. Worked at a Buddhist temple and everything. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Kamidio | May 20 2012, 10:35 PM Post #20 |
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Are you sure he wasn't a wooly pack animal from South America? |
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| lamna | May 21 2012, 01:42 AM Post #21 |
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I wrote that years ago! You can't respond to that like nothing has changed. |
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| Kamidio | May 21 2012, 10:22 AM Post #22 |
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And this is why I love digging up old topics.
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