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OrgoneConclusion
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Raise your arm if you're a moron!
#23559116 - 08/20/16 04:09 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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To free your ego and ensure international bragging rights, try doing something no one else would possibly do.
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/indian-sadhu-has-kept-his-right-hand-up-for-the-last-38-years.html
Sadhu Amar Bharati is an Indian holy man who claims he has kept his right hand raised in the air since 1973. Now, 38 years later, his hand is just a useless piece of skin and bone, but has become a symbol for Shiva worshipers around India.
Until 1970, Amar Bharati was an average middle-class man who lived a normal life. He had a job, a home, a wife and three children, but none of that mattered when he woke up one morning and decided to leave everything behind and dedicate his life to serving the Hindu god Shiva. He began wandering the roads of India dressed in his simple Sadhu clothes and carrying only his trusty Trishula (a metal trident). After three years, in 1973, Amar realized he was still too connected to the fading luxury and pleasures of mortal life, and decided to separate himself from them by raising his right arm and keeping it raised. 38 years later, his arm is still up and he couldn’t use it, even if he wanted to.
While I admire his dedication and perserverance, I see nothing spiritual about destroying a perfectly good limb and becoming dependent on others for help doing simple tasks.
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OrgoneConclusion
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Your avatar raised up, but then wimped out and lowered. 
*me loses respect*
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Heil Shiva!!
So no vacation in Germany for him.
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All the Shiva I need here:
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: yeah]
#23559852 - 08/20/16 12:33 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Actually, to hell with that stupid ass piece of clip art and his shit eating grin...
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: yeah]
#23560193 - 08/20/16 03:05 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
yeah said: Actually, to hell with that stupid ass piece of clip art and his shit eating grin...
haha once invoked, Bob Dobbs can not be banished.
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: falcon]
#23560702 - 08/20/16 05:57 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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noooooo
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said: To free your ego and ensure international bragging rights, try doing something no one else would possibly do.
wrong
Ascetics in India have been doing such things for thousands of years. (nail beds, hours in chilling water, exposing to fire etc.) that's why the Buddha's teachings are called 'the middle way' or 'middle path' - between sensuality (such as the american consumer mentality for example) and asceticism. Meditation for an hour, or for half an hour at a time, at a week long retreat, strikes the average westerner as asceticism. But if one knows what true asceticism is like and then perhaps one understand that some sensible discipline of the mind, may indeed be a 'middle path'.
- - - - - - - - - - for example http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3424300056.html some ascetics, for example, stay totally stationary for years at a time or remain standing or in water for weeks on end. Some ascetics subsist solely on fruits, wild plants, and roots, or they live only on grain left in the fields. Among the most famous are ascetics who practice the "five fires" ritual (building four fires around themselves, with the sun as the fifth) and "spike-lying" ascetics who sleep on beds of nails.
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: laughingdog]
#23560815 - 08/20/16 06:37 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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What if there is a middle way within sensuality? Yin Yangs within Yin Yangs and such...
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: yeah] 1
#23560842 - 08/20/16 06:42 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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as I said
"But if one knows what true asceticism is like and then perhaps one understand(s) that some sensible discipline of the mind, may indeed be a 'middle path'."
perhaps some may
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: laughingdog]
#23560946 - 08/20/16 07:09 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ascetics in India have been doing such things for thousands of years.
And God remains unimpressed. He said "Hey, Amar! I gave you two fully functional arms and a logical brain for a reason."
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I am disarmed by your analysis
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: laughingdog]
#23561660 - 08/20/16 11:01 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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He raised his right arm for peace.
If there was even the tiniest correlation between his personal sacrifice and the lessening of hostilities, then maybe it had value. As there is none, it is self-delusion of the highest order.
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apparently you agree with the Buddhist views of 2500 years ago on this matter, that: Such practices only reinforce the illusion of a separate, fixed, unitary, self.
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Re: Raise your arm if you're a moron! [Re: laughingdog]
#23562127 - 08/21/16 04:59 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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maybe it is about commitment?
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