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Jainism
#21
RE: Jainism
I studied a little bit about it and agreed with the other post earlier that its Christianity without the violence... With my own thought of a Indian twist.
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#22
RE: Jainism
Now to find a pacifist religion that doesn't have the fucked up ideals.
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#23
RE: Jainism
(March 27, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I like the idea of karma, if it was true. You do good things, and good things happen to you. You do bad things, and bad things happen to you. When I let someone into my house to crash in my guest room because they were sick, out of a house, and it was winter, I thought i was doing good. But it was actually bad, and they stole some of my stuff. So bad things happened because I did bad. Even though I was trying to do good.

IMO the trouble with karma is, when coupled with reincarnation, that you get in the awful position that people born with disabilities deserve it.

This probably had a lot to do with the Jains practising the caste system too, with the untouchables being discriminated against because of something they did in a past life.
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#24
RE: Jainism
If reincarnation and karma were true, and you could be punished for past lives, it would be nice to be able to know what you did that caused it. You can only guess at things, like being ugly in this life because you were incredibly vain in a past life, and just try to be generally good to cover all the bases. It's an imprecise philosophy.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#25
RE: Jainism
(March 28, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Chad32 Wrote: If reincarnation and karma were true, and you could be punished for past lives, it would be nice to be able to know what you did that caused it. You can only guess at things, like being ugly in this life because you were incredibly vain in a past life, and just try to be generally good to cover all the bases. It's an imprecise philosophy.

If it were the case a person like Hitler would come back as a fly or something then have to work his way back up to being a human.
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