From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 19 19:53: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C2315659 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08282; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and memetics In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:41:06 CDT." <3.0.6.32.19990419214106.00925800@mail.bfm.org> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:50:24 -0700 Message-ID: <8280.924576624@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Guess what, I had to chuckle when I saw that. The fact is that the world's > largest religion (as far as number of members goes), namely Buddhism, does > not seek converts. Never did either. Never faught in religious wars. Its > founder was reluctant to teach his disciples. Even to this day, when > someone wants to convert to Buddhism, monks question his reasons and try to > find out if there was a way for him to stay in his old religion, and only > if there is no other way do they say OK, good idea. And the Buddha himself > predicted that within 500 years of his time no one would even remember him > or his teachings. That was 2500 years ago. That's a pretty cool analogy and I'll have to remember it. I always wondered at the sincerity of any religion that required people to be virtually dragged in by the hair, either through guilt or literally at the point of a sword (the crusades). I guess it's no coincidence that of all the world's religions, Buddhism is the only one I actually respect. :-) - Jordan (who also spent 13 years living with a devout Zen buddhist girlfriend and now captures and frees his domestic insects rather than swatting them :). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message