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   [Apannaka Sutta]   
      
   > All depends on the context.   
   > What is the context of the sutta?   
   > What was the Buddha actually trying   
   > to make us do?   
   > To believe in his words about things   
   > or to realize the skillfulness of the Dharma   
   > and practice it?   
      
        Only natural you would want to set aside his words now you   
   realize they don't say what you claimed.  You denied the   
   Buddha teaches the existence of the next world according to the   
   sutta.  You also said "he was not even arguing for the   
   truthfulness of the Dharma."  But in the sutta he states "there   
   is actually the next world" and calls that assertion "true   
   dhamma."  Exactly what you wrongly insisted he doesn't do there.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)