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   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   >> What does the sutta tell you to do?   
   >   
   >      Reading the Apannaka Sutta tells me you're obviously wrong   
   > to deny it depicts the Buddha asserting the existence of a next world   
   > and the truthfulness of the dhamma, since he's shown announcing "there   
   > is actually the next world" and labeling that statement "true dhamma."   
   > Exactly what you falsely claimed is missing.   
      
      
   Listen to the translator, please.   
      
   [quote]   
   It is noteworthy that the arguments in A2 and B2 are not safe-bet   
   arguments, for they assume that A is wrong and B is right. Whether these   
   arguments date from the Buddha or were added at a later date, no one   
   knows.   
   [/quote]   
   http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.060.than.html   
      
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