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Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
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Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 11, 2018 at 2:19 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2018 at 2:20 pm by vorlon13.)
Indeed.

He answers prayers there way better and more dramatically than the Abrahamic God does in the US.

Wonder why that is ??

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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 11, 2018 at 2:35 pm
None of the girls are wearing bra's?
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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 11, 2018 at 2:41 pm
If Buddha was on the job:

1.  Those kids wouldn't have been trapped in the cave to begin with.

2.  They would have been found right off. 

3.  They would have been rescued right off.

4.  The Thai diver wouldn't have died.

5.  The Thai government would have already assigned me the film rights, free of charge.

Fuck Buddha.

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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 11, 2018 at 5:01 pm
The parents prayed to Buddha and made a deal that if the boys got back alive they would send them all in for service.
So the boys will become monks for a short while to honour the deal.
Thailand has lots of boy monks and they do it like a rite of passage but not for too long, anywhere from a few months to a year.




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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 11, 2018 at 5:11 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2018 at 5:12 pm by Aegon.)
Buddhist meditation is a far cry from prayer. They're not "praying" to anyone. The boys in the cave used it as a method to temporary eliminate their anxiety.
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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 11, 2018 at 5:17 pm
(July 11, 2018 at 5:11 pm)Aegon Wrote: Buddhist meditation is a far cry from prayer. They're not "praying" to anyone. The boys in the cave used it as a method to temporary eliminate their anxiety.

Depends upon the branch of Buddhism.
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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 12, 2018 at 1:11 am
Guys, is it safe to say that God is a troll and theists just haven't worked it out yet?

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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 12, 2018 at 1:14 am (This post was last modified: July 12, 2018 at 1:14 am by The Valkyrie.)
(July 12, 2018 at 1:11 am)ignoramus Wrote: Guys, is it safe to say that God is a troll and theists just haven't worked it out yet?

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But I've been told God works through me when I do it!
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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 12, 2018 at 6:14 am
Is it disrespectful to the people who risked their lives to give credit to some unseen magical creature?
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RE: Buddha seems to be working pretty well in Thailand
July 12, 2018 at 6:20 am
(July 12, 2018 at 6:14 am)robvalue Wrote: Is it disrespectful to the people who risked their lives to give credit to some unseen magical creature?

Only if it's an invisible man of another religion who gets the thanks.

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