Demthugs Side with Terrorists on DC National Guard Shooting

Damocles said:
lol. I don't agree with your disagreement to my disagreement, because this is just silliness.

Jake says, "I don't like your opinion, so I'll just say 'no' and pretend that you having a different opinion than myself means that you are broken."
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Jakey Boy is a neophyte, not a serious poster.
 
Earl said:
Are cows considered holy in Buddhism?

Cattle are considered sacred in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, as well as in some Chinese folk religion and in traditional African religions. Cattle played other major roles in many religions, including those of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Israel, and ancient Rome.


The last paragraph is a bit ambiguous..
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No, cows are not considered holy in Buddhism overall. Ask it if cows are "holy" in Theravada or Secular Buddhism... You'll get a different answer. I don't even know what form of Buddhism that cows would be considered any more sacred than any other lifeform. Maybe Tibetan Buddhism? I don't think even there they consider cows sacred...

Let me see what grok has to say about it:

Q: Is there a form of buddhism that thinks cows are "sacred"? It seems farfetched to me.

A: No, there is no traditional school or lineage of Buddhism — Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna, Zen, Pure Land, or any historically recognized sect — that teaches cows are sacred, holy, or uniquely protected in the way Hinduism does.


You will not find a single canonical Buddhist text (Pāli Canon, Chinese Āgamas, Tibetan Kangyur/Tengyur, etc.) that:


  • calls the cow sacred,
  • prohibits beef on the grounds that the cow itself is holy,
  • performs pūjā to cows,
  • treats cow products (milk, urine, dung) as ritually purifying in the Hindu sense, or
  • has any equivalent of go-sevā or go-pūjā.

What sometimes creates the impression are three very different phenomena—none of which actually make cows “sacred” in a Buddhist framework:


  1. Modern vegetarian/vegan Buddhist movements (especially in the West, Taiwan, or among some diaspora communities)Some groups (e.g., Tzu Chi Foundation, certain Fo Guang Shan temples, or Western “engaged Buddhist” circles) promote total vegetarianism or veganism for compassion reasons and may give extra symbolic attention to cows because of the strong Hindu cultural echo in the West. But even here the cow is not “sacred”; it’s just one suffering sentient being among many.
  2. Syncretism in Nepal and Himalayan border regionsIn places where Hinduism and Buddhism have lived side-by-side for centuries (especially among Newar Buddhists in the Kathmandu Valley or some Tamang/Gurung communities), you occasionally see Hindu practices (including cow veneration) mixed in at the folk level. Ethnically Buddhist families may still avoid beef out of cultural habit or respect for Hindu neighbors, but this is cultural, not doctrinal.
  3. Very recent “eco-Buddhist” or animal-liberation trendsA few contemporary teachers or small groups have started rituals of “liberating” cows (buying them from slaughter and letting them live out their lives). This is done as an act of compassion and generating merit, exactly the same way some Buddhists liberate fish, birds, or sheep. The cow still has no special ontological status; it’s just a conveniently large and visible animal to save.

So, in short: No historical or canonical form of Buddhism has ever considered the cow sacred.Anyone claiming otherwise is almost certainly confusing Buddhism with Hinduism or projecting very recent, very marginal practices onto the whole tradition.
 
Damocles said:
No, cows are not considered holy in Buddhism overall. Ask it if cows are "holy" in Theravada or Secular Buddhism... You'll get a different answer. I don't even know what form of Buddhism that cows would be considered any more sacred than any other lifeform. Maybe Tibetan Buddhism? I don't think even there they consider cows sacred...

Let me see what grok has to say about it:

Q: Is there a form of buddhism that thinks cows are "sacred"? It seems farfetched to me.

A: No, there is no traditional school or lineage of Buddhism — Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna, Zen, Pure Land, or any historically recognized sect — that teaches cows are sacred, holy, or uniquely protected in the way Hinduism does.


You will not find a single canonical Buddhist text (Pāli Canon, Chinese Āgamas, Tibetan Kangyur/Tengyur, etc.) that:


  • calls the cow sacred,
  • prohibits beef on the grounds that the cow itself is holy,
  • performs pūjā to cows,
  • treats cow products (milk, urine, dung) as ritually purifying in the Hindu sense, or
  • has any equivalent of go-sevā or go-pūjā.

What sometimes creates the impression are three very different phenomena—none of which actually make cows “sacred” in a Buddhist framework:


  1. Modern vegetarian/vegan Buddhist movements (especially in the West, Taiwan, or among some diaspora communities)Some groups (e.g., Tzu Chi Foundation, certain Fo Guang Shan temples, or Western “engaged Buddhist” circles) promote total vegetarianism or veganism for compassion reasons and may give extra symbolic attention to cows because of the strong Hindu cultural echo in the West. But even here the cow is not “sacred”; it’s just one suffering sentient being among many.
  2. Syncretism in Nepal and Himalayan border regionsIn places where Hinduism and Buddhism have lived side-by-side for centuries (especially among Newar Buddhists in the Kathmandu Valley or some Tamang/Gurung communities), you occasionally see Hindu practices (including cow veneration) mixed in at the folk level. Ethnically Buddhist families may still avoid beef out of cultural habit or respect for Hindu neighbors, but this is cultural, not doctrinal.
  3. Very recent “eco-Buddhist” or animal-liberation trendsA few contemporary teachers or small groups have started rituals of “liberating” cows (buying them from slaughter and letting them live out their lives). This is done as an act of compassion and generating merit, exactly the same way some Buddhists liberate fish, birds, or sheep. The cow still has no special ontological status; it’s just a conveniently large and visible animal to save.

So, in short: No historical or canonical form of Buddhism has ever considered the cow sacred.Anyone claiming otherwise is almost certainly confusing Buddhism with Hinduism or projecting very recent, very marginal practices onto the whole tradition.
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Enough said…an abundance.

I like cows.

I like bulls even more…Rib-eyes, Porterhouse, filets.

The Grand Architect, in his infinite wisdom and benevolence, provides us with these delicious animals.

Amen!
 
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Earl said:
Enough said…an abundance.

I like cows.

I like bulls even more…Rib-eyes, Porterhouse, filets.

The Grand Architect, in his infinite wisdom and benevolence, provides us with these delicious animals.

Amen!
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Drink the wine and chew the wafer
Two, four, six, eight
Time to transubstantiate.
 
Damocles said:
lol. I don't agree with your disagreement to my disagreement, because this is just silliness.

Jake says, "I don't like your opinion, so I'll just say 'no' and pretend that you having a different opinion than myself means that you are broken."
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You are not broken. We are in disagreement. So what?
 
Guno צְבִי said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Phoney " patriot " who never served

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You're right, the 3 non patriots that never served were Joe Biden, Obama and bill clinton.
 
Damocles said:
You apparently missed a word. Go back, read again.
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I haven’t missed anything. Not one of you fucks have identified that the vetting process was the problem. Just trying to point fingers.

You used the term post-arrival, adjudicated asylum proceedings”, but you can’t seem to tell us anything about those proceedings.

Color me not surprised.
 
Interesting theory that this was a CIA operation in the mission to drive civil war which will be used to enslave the people.
 
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