Maddie

Objective measurements are measurements that are not subjective. Anyone can take them and get the same results under the same conditions. Anyone taking room temperature using a thermometer is going to get the same result if they use it correctly, regardless of who measures it.

Yes absolutely but one thing that MMA has given us is the breaking through delusions in martial arts aspect. It settled all the "my flying butterfly fireball out my butt attack can defeat your moth lips kiss of death attack" nonsense. In MMA if it works under pressure testing then it proves itself. If it does not work it helps us to recognize what is ineffective.

Words are hard :-(

Manta is one of my main practices as well :-)

So you're saying YouTube videos aren't evidence? LOL 😂 Tom Cruise has some amazing powers. It's true because it's on a YouTube video.

I didn't mean "internet argue" I was using it in an academic sense lol.

I don't think there can be non-attached romantic love. What does humans evolving have to do with ending suffering as the Buddha taught?

Romantic love is about attachment. Altruistic love is the opposite. In the foundation of buddhism, the four noble truths, and the second truth the Buddha said that the cause of suffering is attachment. To say that this is no longer necessary to deal with to become enlightened goes against the very root of what the Buddha taught. We tend to look for excuses to justify our strongest attachments.

Enlightenment according to the Buddha isn't opening the heart. It's ending suffering.

You must argue your point good sir lol 🧐

Ah where we get the word "Simony" - trying to buy positions or power within the church.

Stage tricks still fool people in the twenty-first century, so imagine what effect they had on people in the first!

That's certainly what the Jew's of his day and after considered him.

When I was in acupuncture school I had a classmate, one of those light and love types. She judged me for doing Jujitsu and said it would just attract violence I said I thought there was a "Tao of sorts within it" which she rejected. Then I asked her what she did for self defense and she said that she "just didn't manifest problems like that". About a year later the poor girl got sexually assaulted by her date. Some Jujitsu could have really come in handy. I felt bad for her.

Not the kind of stuff you're going to hear about in your typical church service lol. I wonder if he won his fight? lol

Trans witches riding unicorns?

It seems like every topic about powers like this or Mo Pie really become heated. Powers are of the ego and the ego is what leads to conflict.

Oh nice, Texas lol

What is golden shield? I've never heard of that. Thanks for sharing!

There is a story that one time the Buddha was on a river bank with some of his followers and he came across a yogi that informed the Buddha that he had just walked across the water of the river to get to where he was now. The Buddha asked him how long it took him to accomplish this feat to which the yogi responded 20 years. To that the Buddha replied that he just took the boat and it took him 20 minutes.

Oh they really are! I was in a cult, and the leaders were rich and lived in mansions.

I'm always warry of those that want to develop powers. It sounds like a very egocentric thing. It also reminds me of a bunch of kids on a play ground playing Harry Potter.

This seems like Mo Pai 2.0

The only people that fear skeptics are charlatans and the delusional. Healthy skepticism is good.

After having been in a cult myself I can say that is exactly what cultists say lol