Last year, deardenver commemorated November 18th:
November 18th is the 30th anniversary of the mass murder-suicide that left 918 people dead in Jonestown, Guyana. "Drinking the Kool-Aid," a reference to the massacre, has come to mean embracing a group or leader with blind, unquestioning obedience.
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Check out the Nichiren Sangha of Second Life. What is Second Life? Go here. Freaky but cool-ish.
Rissho Kosei Kai and Unitarian Universalists are soulmates. Who knew?
Website content theft is a growing problem on the web. Several sites related to Buddhism take and republish whole articles, sometimes with links and attribution, sometimes not. (On buddhajones, if you want to refer to content on another site, quote a portion of the article and provide a link to the rest.)
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Thanks for the links. Just took a trip back in time to some very interesting discussions.
I just took a look at that site and gave it about 20 seconds before I couldn't stand it anymore.Want to learn Buddhism go to http:/tientai.netWant to learn attachment go to that other link.
Stop bumping into to treasure and open your eyes to what is there in front of you.I could have built a server from scratch and reinstalled the software by now. Anyone know whats taking them so long to get the site back up?
Based on the note here http://www.e-sangha.com/ I believe they are trying to recover the old forum data. There were rumors of some sort of hacking attack, although I have no way to verify this.
They are searching for data recovery experts and lawyers which is not a good sign. That means they haven't been doing backups and probably means if it is restored it will be at a basic state.I've created a temporary forum for the interim just for Nichiren Buddhists at http://ichinensanzen.org/forum...Hopefully I won't have to keep it around too long, but I am prepared for it to last, and I do backups. :)ESangha rules apply, and I am looking for moderators.
Talk about attachment. Sheesh.
whatever that means, okay.
Maybe the owners of e-sangha should take losing their archives as a lesson in non-attachment. However I think it's karmic payback for all the capricious moderating they did.
As being one of those that were capriciously moderated I whole heartedly agree. Sometimes it was like dancing on razor blades just to get a point across. :)