Oh you old-schoolers... It was just a little pun. Hinayana means "small-vessel" whereas Mahayana means "large-vessel". Hinayana Buddhists...
If you're a Mahayana Buddhist you could help others across the river with the boat.
I agree that without intent it can't be altruistic. It's fortunate, sure, but not altruistic. That said, I would also comment that there is...
Your theory reminds me of two points I've always believed in. That the universe has no beginning nor end (not really anyway, it's cyclical). And...
Actually, the concept is for a story a friend and I are developing. We've determined that the sphere must be a shell of "no-time" or "stopped-time"...
If you had a device that could generate a shell of stopped-time, with you inside it. What would be it's properties? Here's my ideas. First, from...
With time it gets easier to think in another language. It helps if you're immersed in the language, then the english words don't come to mind as...
Re: Being a good person is all what matters Well said, thank you.
It's hard to completely break out of thinking in your native tongue. Usually I think abstractly (or at least, that's the goal) and let the language...
i think that it is beneficial to a society. almost all animals, and some would say plants, have forms of language, if you define language as a...
What should be distinguished in this is the difference between language for use for oneself and language for use between individuals. Language for...
I'm a linguist, who studied language and it's precursors for many years. I know what language is and what it is used for. I'm not discounting the...
I occurs to me that a lot of people are looking further into this than is necessary. Language is not some mystical ability possessed by enlightened...
That's actually the intent of a Republic. The difference is that in a Republic the government is constrained by laws, in a Democracy there is no...
My view on it is that anything with broad appeal is necessarily shallow. that's what mass-market appeal is all about: water something down until it...
Pollux, I'm not sure where the quote came from anymore. I get the feeling that it's an old Robert A. Heinlein quote (sounds like him, anyway)...
reminds me of the (somewhat cruel) adage, "Religion is a crutch for those who are afraid to stand up to the unknown alone." I think that's true...
there's a book by kim stanley robinson called "the land of rice and salt" about a world where bubonic plague killed off christian europe and the...
okay i resent people suggesting that we multi-linguals have differently shaped heads. but from what i understand you are asking for the most...
it's on par with making a christian remove their crucifix necklace, maybe worse, maybe a rosary. so, if you're in a place that makes christians and...
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