I have enjoyed the debate on here of late, less so some of the argument. I came across a lovely parable the other day that made me smile and helped me to understand the value of healthy debate. I cant find the version I read but this version is similar.
Buddha tells the story of a raja who had six blind men gathered together to examine the elephant.
"When the blind men had felt the elephant, the raja went to each of them and said to each: 'Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?'
They assert the elephant is like a pot (head), winnowing basket (ear), ploughshare (tusk), plough (trunk), granary (body), pillar (foot), mortar (back), pestle (tail) or brush (tip of the tail).
The men come to blows, which delights the raja. The raja says:
O how they cling and wrangle, some who claim
For preacher and monk the honored name!
For, quarreling, each to his view they cling.
Such folk see only one side of a thing.
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Quote by Mrsgoggins
As there is quite a few people talking about this debate, does that make it a mass debate????
seems to me to be a gang banging on in here.
I would like to join in.
Me 3 it's on my to-do list :twisted:
So.. Will that turn it into a bi-lateral mass debation??... err, can we join in?? :twisted:
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Personally I'm sick of all this woolly minded liberal nonsense hang them all bloody buddhists coming over here and telling us how to think......just you wait before you know it....rivers of blood....i don't pay my taxes etc. etc.
