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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   > [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.   
      
      
   Now you are just being silly.   
      
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