Hello. BuddhaJones has given me the keys to this site and I'm opening it back up. I'm not sure what I hope to accomplish. I'm deeply conflicted about Buddhism -- not the dharma so much as the pervasive sexism I observe in every mainstream Buddhist community. I'll get into this later.
I have fiddled with the blog settings. People ought to be able to post new comments and diaries, and make new accounts. If you're having technical issues, send a note to nine@buddhajones.com.
More details below....
I have been in contact with some of the "regulars" who used to post here. None of them has promised to continue their participation. Everyone's busy. Everyone has a life.
I plan to look for timely links related to Nichiren Buddhism and post them here. If you have a blog, twitter feed, etc. or a topic that you'd like to call to attention, please post it. This is a bulletin board or water cooler to help people find info relevant to Nichiren Buddhism.
I'm the new moderator here. My general policy is to let discussions happen and to not silence people who are making thoughtful arguments, even if the arguments become heated.
As we've all seen, it's possible to freeze this site and block participation for everyone. I'm not making any promises about how long this site will stay open or how long I will be able to serve as moderator. Everything's transitory.
In addition, the creator of our blog software sold his company to a new owner. We're not sure what changes, if any, this will bring.
While we're here we might as well pitch in and share what we know, think, and feel about our Nichiren Buddhist practice and community. Who knows, maybe someone will find it useful.
Pseudonymous participation is OK and even recommended on this blog. This is for your protection -- and to help you remember that your comments and opinions are not "who you are." Pseudonymous participation is not a mask that allows you to be a jerk without consequences. If you're routinely a jerk on this blog, I have no qualms about cutting off your ability to post.
Let's keep it clean and let's come out swinging.
Nine Lives (nine@buddhajones.com)
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It may take awhile for folks to come back, since the site has been in hibernation so long.But, if someone posts something interesting or controversial, then maybe they'll show up again.
http://lotusflowersgi.blogspot...Lotus Flower: Spreading the wonders and joy of Nichiren Buddhism through articles, experiences, art, music, film, comedy and pop culture...plus my own thoughts.Loflo73SeleusThanks!
Hey, Loflo73, I have seen your blog before and I think it is very uncool, and not just because it's slanted so much toward SGI dogma.You just post articles from SGI publications and other websites, and you pretend that it's somehow all your original content. You don't even provide links to the sites you swiped the content from. It's a massive copyright violation of a website.Rogow over on fraughtwithperil has been been doing the same thing, cutting and pasting whole articles into his blog, not even providing so much as a link back to his source. This seems to be standard practice among Nichiren Buddhists.Our online community deserves better. I think every Buddhist should pledge to uphold golden rules of blogging:1. Don't steal. Cutting and pasting entire articles from another website or publication onto your own site is stealing.2. If you're going to quote from another online source, only quote partially. No more than three paragraphs.3. Clearly set the quote apart from your own comments with quotation marks or in a quote box. (On buddhajones, select the quoted text and click "quote." this will automatically format your quote into a quote box.)4. Always name the source of your quote.5. Always provide a link to to the page where the quote appears.It's not that hard.
Mroaks, I thought you were going to leave here and never come back.Still, you make a good point. I recommend reading: The Blogger Who Lied - Blogging, Plagiarism, and Content Theft.Here are links to two other articles that explain copyright as it applies to blogs:http://www.dailyblogtips.com/c...http://www.smashingmagazine.co...
Here's a new Nichiren forum to add to the links...http://www.nichirenhokkekyoshu...
Here's an interesting link. It's a slideshow by Stratofox, folks who track satellites. Apparently, Stanford launched a satellite for Soka University, and the equipment was lost, then found.For those who don't know, Soka University in Japan and Soka University of America were founded by Soka Gakkai International's Daisaku Ikeda, who is a controversial figure in Nichiren Buddhism.See the link here. See slides 13 thru 17.
Soka has (or at least had) an eye in the sky. For those of you who believe strongly that Soka is a cult, does that make you feel a little paranoid?NL, your piece needs an appropriately 1950s SciFi echo effect on the title."SsOooKkAaaa IiiiNnnnn SsssPpppAaaaCcccEeee!!!!