Have you ever blacked out drinking?

Have you ever blacked out or passed out drinking

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Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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I have been so drunk that I attacked someone who brandished what I thought was a pipe and jacked him up by the throat. I took the weapon from him and didn’t know my hand was cut to the bone until I walked away. Some people here probably remember. It’s around the time I got off hard drugs, stopped drinking, and started smoking weed and using psychedelics sacramentally and medicinally.

I’ve been so drunk that I was sitting in my parents’ back yard at night, screaming and crying at the sky in a rage. My dad came out to tell me that people were calling him and saying they were afraid to come outside. He said I sounded like a wild animal howling at the moon.
 
Buddha2525

Buddha2525

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Olive Drab Green said:
I have been so drunk that I attacked someone who brandished what I thought was a pipe and jacked him up by the throat. I took the weapon from him and didn’t know my hand was cut to the bone until I walked away. Some people here probably remember. It’s around the time I got off hard drugs, stopped drinking, and started smoking weed and using psychedelics sacramentally and medicinally.

I’ve been so drunk that I was sitting in my parents’ back yard at night, screaming and crying at the sky in a rage. My dad came out to tell me that people were calling him and saying they were afraid to come outside. He said I sounded like a wild animal howling at the moon.
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I've never done shit like that, ever. Maybe being accused a fake Buddhist isn't such a bad thing.
 
Buddha2525

Buddha2525

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UncleBuck said:
It’s not an accusation you fake pos
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Pure land Buddhism is open to everyone, men or women, of any race or sexuality. Then only requirement is faith in Amitabha called 信心 xinxin in Chinese and shinjin in Japanese, and recitation of his name, either namo Amituofo in Chinese or namo Amida butsu in Japanese, which roughly means "I take refuge in Amitabha." That's it. So it's impossible to be fake if you say the name and have the faith.

"The Original Buddhist Rebel
Shinran, the founder of Shin Buddhism, broke with Japanese tradition to start a religion of radical egalitarianism that opened the benefits of Buddhism to everyone.

Shin Buddhism’s radical egalitarianism, which did not consider lay life to be an impediment to religious attainment

Pure Land practice in which laypeople and the ordained were seen as equals on the spiritual path. This practice could be pursued by anyone, whether as an ordinary member of society, married with a family, or as a celibate renunciant. All that the path required was nembutsu practice, or chanting the name of Amida Buddha, “Namu Amida Butsu.” Through this practice, Honen taught, one would be fully embraced in boundless compassion."

https://tricycle.org/magazine/the-original-buddhist-rebel/
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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Buddha2525 said:
Pure land Buddhism is open to everyone, men or women, of any race or sexuality. Then only requirement is faith in Amitabha called 信心 xinxin in Chinese and shinjin in Japanese, and recitation of his name, either namo Amituofo in Chinese or namo Amida butsu in Japanese, which roughly means "I take refuge in Amitabha." That's it. So it's impossible to be fake if you say the name and have the faith.

"The Original Buddhist Rebel
Shinran, the founder of Shin Buddhism, broke with Japanese tradition to start a religion of radical egalitarianism that opened the benefits of Buddhism to everyone.

Shin Buddhism’s radical egalitarianism, which did not consider lay life to be an impediment to religious attainment

Pure Land practice in which laypeople and the ordained were seen as equals on the spiritual path. This practice could be pursued by anyone, whether as an ordinary member of society, married with a family, or as a celibate renunciant. All that the path required was nembutsu practice, or chanting the name of Amida Buddha, “Namu Amida Butsu.” Through this practice, Honen taught, one would be fully embraced in boundless compassion."

https://tricycle.org/magazine/the-original-buddhist-rebel/
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You can copy and paste all you’d like; it doesn’t convey you understand the concept, and your behavior proves that you are not at all familiar with the basic concepts of Dharma as laid out in Mahayana Buddhism, which Pure Land Buddhism is a broad branch of. Maybe you have an interest, but I doubt it, otherwise you would strive to embody Dharma more, and you would recognize your ego is a powerless illusion.

You aren’t interested in the welfare of everyone, nor egalitarianism, and it shows.
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Buddha2525 said:
Pure land Buddhism is open to everyone, men or women, of any race or sexuality. Then only requirement is faith in Amitabha called 信心 xinxin in Chinese and shinjin in Japanese, and recitation of his name, either namo Amituofo in Chinese or namo Amida butsu in Japanese, which roughly means "I take refuge in Amitabha." That's it. So it's impossible to be fake if you say the name and have the faith.

"The Original Buddhist Rebel
Shinran, the founder of Shin Buddhism, broke with Japanese tradition to start a religion of radical egalitarianism that opened the benefits of Buddhism to everyone.

Shin Buddhism’s radical egalitarianism, which did not consider lay life to be an impediment to religious attainment

Pure Land practice in which laypeople and the ordained were seen as equals on the spiritual path. This practice could be pursued by anyone, whether as an ordinary member of society, married with a family, or as a celibate renunciant. All that the path required was nembutsu practice, or chanting the name of Amida Buddha, “Namu Amida Butsu.” Through this practice, Honen taught, one would be fully embraced in boundless compassion."

https://tricycle.org/magazine/the-original-buddhist-rebel/
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Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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TacoMac said:
I've heard it worded both ways.

My way: dance with the girl you came with.

In other words, stick to one and forego the risks of conflict. :)
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In the Army, for us, it was “beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.” I used to drink a fifth of whiskey, usually bourbon, a night, so it didn’t really matter which way it went.
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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US Army verbatim Weekend Safety Brief:

“1. Don’t drink and drive.

2. Don’t do drugs.

3. Don’t rape bitches.”

Everyone in the Infantry is an insatiable, monstrous alcoholic, usually, and when you disengage people’s psychological “safety,” it fractures your sense of reality. People tend to do really horrible shit when they’re drunk and they don’t even know where the line is, sober, anymore.
 
londonfog

londonfog

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Olive Drab Green said:
In the Army, for us, it was “beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you’re in the clear.” I used to drink a fifth of whiskey, usually bourbon, a night, so it didn’t really matter which way it went.
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Yup which is the same as It's "beer on whiskey pretty risky, whiskey on beer never fear".
 
Buddha2525

Buddha2525

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Olive Drab Green said:
You can copy and paste all you’d like; it doesn’t convey you understand the concept, and your behavior proves that you are not at all familiar with the basic concepts of Dharma as laid out in Mahayana Buddhism, which Pure Land Buddhism is a broad branch of. Maybe you have an interest, but I doubt it, otherwise you would strive to embody Dharma more, and you would recognize your ego is a powerless illusion.

You aren’t interested in the welfare of everyone, nor egalitarianism, and it shows.
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Nope. You guys aren't worth Dharma. Some people like you can't be fixed so I have and mock you. If you cared to have a real conversation with real questions I would, especially in my Sunday School thread. All you're interested in is drama, so I dish it back.

If you actually read what I wrote there you'd see I answer any real inquiry there sincerely.

Go howl to the moon.
 
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