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The figures I quoted are the “market share”. https://goodfaithmedia.org/global-christian-population-projected-to-reach-3-3-billion-by-2050/

(my highlighting) @Maddie so yes.

Please sit down as this may come as a shock to you. The USA is not the world. From 2000 to the present, the global Christian population increased at 1.18% , atheists 0.29%.

Which country do these charts represent? Globally Christianity is increasing https://goodfaithmedia.org/global-christian-population-projected-to-reach-3-3-billion-by-2050/

Alongside China's astonishing economic boom, an almost unnoticed religious boom has quietly been taking place. “Over the past four decades, Christianity has grown faster in China than anywhere else in the world.” https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/why-is-christianity-growing-in-china/

red suits in chimneys if they get too enlightened, they will get stuck there. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/54959-unpopular-opinions/?do=findComment&comment=1020112

Anybody can use terms in any (different) way they like, and the victor writes the dictionary. But these terms mean the same thing: androgyny: άνδρας (man) + γυναίκα (woman); hermaphrodite: Ερμής (Hermes, male god) + Αφροδίτη (Aphrodite, female goddess).

Referring you to @Taoist Texts

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The Buddha followed the ‘middle way’ and therefore was of average weight. We don’t know if “the Buddha disagrees”. We don’t have a photograph of him. And he never wrote anything down; the earliest writings are from something like 5 centuries after his death!

Well I know @steve knows a lot about that. Welcome to the forum.

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A thread to post various things that were a grave disappointment to you.

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I’d rather be skinny than enlightened.

B: let’s tell them to meditate on how ugly their bodies are. result: some 100 dead people. B: okidoki no worries, let’s now do another experiment. Yippee, such fun. I would have thought a more natural response of the Buddha would have been to stop talking in public.

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