home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   talk.religion.buddhism      All aspects of Buddhism as religion and      111,200 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 109,262 of 111,200   
   Julian to All   
   Re: collaborative world peace spell/pray   
   16 Oct 15 14:13:59   
   
   XPost: alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,    
   lt.philosophy.taoism   
   XPost: alt.religion.hindu   
   From: julianlzb87@gmail.com   
      
   On 16/10/2015 13:58, {:-]))) wrote:   
   > Julian wrote:   
   >> David Dalton wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I propose a collaborative world peace spell that we could   
   >>> improvise, I suggest at 2300 GMT Thursday Oct. 15 (so 8:30 p.m.   
   >>> Newfoundland Daylight Time or 7 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time or   
   >>> 4 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time).   But if that time is not   
   >>> convenient then you could do it at some other time.  If you   
   >>> don't want to improvise a spell then a simple willing of world   
   >>> peace, or meditation on world peace, or even a prayer for   
   >>> world peace, should be just as good .   
   >   
   > I forgot.   
   >   
   >> Leaving aside the nauseating virtue signalling...   
   >>   
   >> https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f5/97/3a/f5973a21b3   
   71e189b817afdefa103d3.jpg   
   >   
   > Magical thinking can be fun.   
      
   I suppose so, if you're young or lonely.   
      
   > To think it's possible to will world peace,   
   > or to meditate peace, into existence,   
   > can be a great thought.   
   >   
   > If Hitchens were a Taoist   
   > perhaps he would have sat back   
   > in some sort of chair and done nothing.   
      
   I'm glad he wasn't.   
      
   > If everyone did nothing,   
   > then the world would be at peace.   
      
   So, Mr. Busybody, what have you got against world peace?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca