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Buddha too...

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In Reply to: RE: "the only true revolution in man's history" - Respectfully Disagree posted by J-PMatt@Comcast.Net on June 28, 2008 at 09:36:24

his way, his teachings, his inclusion of anyone was a direct challenge to the caste system in India.

Aside form what's grown around their respective teachings and that Buddha's life was like a candle flame while JC's was more a bolt of lightning, there are many similarities in their stories.

The challenge to authority, their confrontation with various temptations and the anthropomorphized demonic entity of their time and place, a period of solitude/meditation and many of the core teachings about how we should behave with/towards one another and ourselves.

"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."

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Lenin too - Bill the K 08:48:54 06/29/08 (2)
- I'm more of a McCartney fan.........but Lennon was cool - J-PMatt@Comcast.Net 15:02:16 06/30/08 (0)
- Then we better include Stalin and Vlad the Impaler - Redwing 10:41:24 06/29/08 (0)

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