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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Any Other Buddhists Out There? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2015, 7:11 pm
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| every thing is equivalent to its own negation in = not-in aka out here = not-here aka there high = low being = non-being thing = no-thing atman = anatman That's pure dualism. Both in and out stand as separate, still. Like milk and coffee. One does get a caffe latte but it's still 'a mix of milk and... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Any Other Buddhists Out There? |
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Posted: 15 Apr 2015, 4:45 pm
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| Realising the absolute ('the one', brahman) is the goal in advaita vedanta indeed, but not in buddha dharma. There is no absolute in Buddhism. I still find Mūlamadhyamakakārikā the best text to read if you wish to understand this point. Read either in Sanskrit, Tibetian or Chinese, as far as I know ... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: A-Z Languages |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2015, 8:46 am
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Replies: 121
Views: 5,338
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Buginese
Bugis people live in Sulawesi (Indonesia). |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2015, 8:38 am
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Replies: 56,584
Views: 1,771,123
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Uexküll
Family name. Have famous bearers, Johannes von. and Jakob von.
Written üksküll in Estonian where it originates from… |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: A new term for autism and why not "instant diagnosis" |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2015, 4:52 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Sorry if it stings your self-esteem to have it classified that way I don't think it stings anyone's self-esteem. Because I think people are not happy with words like 'disability' and 'disorder' etc for two reasons. 1) First. Because at the highly functioning end it easily ends up with a bunch of NT... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: A-Z Languages |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2015, 11:38 am
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Replies: 121
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Wu
Also 吳語, 'Wu Chinese', language spoken in Shanghai and nearby provinces. About 20th biggest language in the world by total number of speakers (exact number not known though…) |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2015, 11:23 am
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Replies: 56,584
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rDNA
(or 'recombinant DNA'.
DNA molecules formed by genetic recombination.
Because of that technology we have lots of useful stuff like, say, (single dose) rDNA insulin or hepatitis B vaccine) |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2015, 4:59 pm
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Replies: 56,584
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Any Other Buddhists Out There? |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2015, 3:50 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Buddhist Church ?!? church (tʃɜrtʃ) n. 1. a building for public Christian worship. 2. a religious service in a church. 3. (cap.) a. the whole body of Christian believers; Christendom. b. any major division of this body; a Christian denomination. 4. a Christian congregation. 5. organized religion as ... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2015, 3:31 pm
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Replies: 56,584
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: A-Z Languages |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2015, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 121
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Tuvan (тыва дыл)
Another Ural-Altaic language (or Altaic language - and for those who are not keen on the Altaic language theory - it's a Turkic language) spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia.
Some Tuvans live also in China and in Mongolia. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: NTs acting ASD confusion |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2015, 10:52 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 957
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| If this behavior is displayed only towards you - they may not like a newcomer (and in this case you are the newcomer so you receive the expression of dislike) … or maybe they didn't want you (or anyone else) move in at all and now they are expressing their dislike over someone having moved in. In wh... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2015, 10:21 am
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Nth
(so,
[n (to show an indefinite number) + -th] = 'utmost or large amount but unspecified' / last of an infinitely decreasing or increasing value -
as in 'for nth time', 'to the nth degree', 'nth admission') |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Young schoolgirl commits suicide over mild autism diagnosis |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015, 5:01 pm
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Replies: 35
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| Is this IBeatAutism person or troll going to continually comment about their pity being good intentions in every thread. Please God no. I wish they would use their time to actually do something to help the disabled people they're pitying. Like maybe offer to do grocery shopping once a week for pare... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: word association game |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015, 4:21 pm
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Replies: 76,446
Views: 2,205,442
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Keep a word, drop a word... |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015, 4:19 pm
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Replies: 45,147
Views: 442,081
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