joojoo1975 wrote:Mcporkins wrote:Two men are floating in the ocean after a shipwreck and one grabs onto a small board that manages to keep him afloat, but the other guy sees it and wants to hang on too, but the first man knows the board wont support them both, so he pushes the second man off and watches the man drown. Is the first man a die hard criminal? (some will say wtf does this have to do with anything? fine, answer me this, a man walks into a bank to rob it and massacres everyone inside and leaves with all the cash only to turn around and give it to a childrens hospital that is going broke, is he truly bad?)
as for your first scenerio. i guess if you canot both hang on and keep your heads above water, then it's a"it's him or me" kinda scenerio. no probs. but i would try all my options first(i would rather drown tryin all i could to help my fellow man, than live with the fact i let a helpless man in my same situation die)
as for the second option: to murder innoscent people in order to keep a hopsital going is just plain stupid. the ends Do not Justify the means. Also do ya really think the money is gonna stay with the hospital after the cops get there and sort it all out?
now as for your ideas. man do you really think that exploiters and thier allies should be liked by honest folk? so if a dictator decides to open up orfanages for all the parentless children in his country(they are orphans because the dictator ruthlessly slaughtered the parents.) does it make him a kind dictator?
if a serial murderer gives all his proceeds from his "tell all" book to charity, should we still not shoot this motherfucker in the face?
(cold and cruel joojoo1975 gonna finish the rest of this)
if it were up to me, 99% of these ass hats would of had thier shit punched in already. you dont cater to exploiters, you exterminate them like the insects they are. we don't overlook fuktards who are too cowardly to do thier criminal acts without a hearthvault, we find them and nuke them from the bloody game. And you sure as Hell do not Say your gonna nuke Blatent game crashers and all around rapists of what was descent of H&H and then not follow through.
Mcporkins wrote:Tonky, most of the Buddhists works are open for personal interpretation, I chose to see the story as i stated, he had his chance for salvation, but his nature stopped him, when he struggled to keep the others off the spider web, as being a criminal is pure selfishly driven. and if looting raiding and such are not glorified and frowned upon, why are there death skills, rams, palisades, brickwalls, and weapons and armor? tonky i always enjoy talking to you, but from my seat this is how i see it.
Tonkyhonk wrote:Mcporkins wrote:Tonky, most of the Buddhists works are open for personal interpretation, I chose to see the story as i stated, he had his chance for salvation, but his nature stopped him, when he struggled to keep the others off the spider web, as being a criminal is pure selfishly driven. and if looting raiding and such are not glorified and frowned upon, why are there death skills, rams, palisades, brickwalls, and weapons and armor? tonky i always enjoy talking to you, but from my seat this is how i see it.
jumping to a conclusion at first sight is never recommended in our buddhism. one form of avoiding it is seen in "zen" practice.
get yourself a better seat, or better yet, maybe remove your comfy seat completely and sit on a rock, and you might see things a bit deeper.
Ranma wrote:so, how long you've been there ?
burgingham wrote:What does that have to do with anything? Also, now you care again that I played?
Mcporkins wrote:sorry, but I have sat upon many rocks, chairs, pillows, etc. in my life. What i see is an application of personal morals into a game. I have a deeply profound respect for buddhism. But my words are tempered with experience and age. they may be evil, or misunderstood. It does not matter, when all i want out of it is to see its outcome, not having a personal stake in it.