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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:53 am
by flipflop
The Wharf, Bridgetown, Barbados, 8th December 2008. This is the place the pyrates of olde used to weigh anchor and trawl the pox-ridden bars on shore for shipmates, AA-HAR!!! Now rich people park their gin palaces there and buy cigars. Isn't modern life rubbish?

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:43 am
by flipflop
Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse, Tibet, 17th October 2006. The home of the Panchen Lama, only the Chinese have kidnapped the real one, his whereabouts are unknown. The Chinese Communist Party "Panchen Lama" should be here too, but like an organ donation gone wrong, the body of the Tibetan people reject the impostor, and would kill him on sight, along with his Party member parents. So the monastery goes without any spiritual leader in residence at all.

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:40 am
by JohnnyFishfinger
I like the analogy

Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:06 am
by coldharvest
So the monastery goes without any spiritual leader in residence at all.

...other than the Buddha's ten precepts and four noble truths*.






*personally I think the last two nobles truths are for pussies.

Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:40 am
by flipflop
coldharvest wrote:
So the monastery goes without any spiritual leader in residence at all.

...other than the Buddha's ten precepts and four noble truths*.






*personally I think the last two nobles truths are for pussies.


Pussies are ok when they're Buddhist pussies - it's the only religion I've any time for

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:05 pm
by coldharvest
flipflop wrote:
coldharvest wrote:
So the monastery goes without any spiritual leader in residence at all.

...other than the Buddha's ten precepts and four noble truths*.






*personally I think the last two nobles truths are for pussies.


Pussies are ok when they're Buddhist pussies - it's the only religion I've any time for

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For social aspects I lean toward a mixture of Hinduism and Confucianism ........and Buddhism is a philosophy ya retard.

Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:26 pm
by flipflop
It is in Thailand (Hinayana), but how do you explain an entity like Yama in Tibetan Vajrayana? Tibetan Buddhism is more spiritual and accepts deities, ya spacker

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:18 pm
by coldharvest
flipflop wrote: how do you explain an entity like Yama in Tibetan Vajrayana?

Oh come on, it's obviously a vestige of the bicameral mind.
Tibetan Buddhism is more spiritual and accepts deities

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jingles on a truck, ya puppet strangler.

Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:54 pm
by flipflop
That's an AfPak truck shorely, yuh minge teasing bastard yuh?

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:11 pm
by Royal
flipflop wrote:It is in Thailand (Hinayana), Cheers


Theravada in Thailand......... (Just splitting hairs. Don't need no bad Karma...... & coming back as a politician).

Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:42 pm
by coldharvest
flipflop wrote:That's an AfPak truck shorely, yuh minge teasing bastard yuh?

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no, it's me grapes.

Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 3:33 am
by flipflop
Royal wrote:
flipflop wrote:It is in Thailand (Hinayana), Cheers


Theravada in Thailand......... (Just splitting hairs. Don't need no bad Karma...... & coming back as a politician).


Yup, the Thais call it Theravada, but the Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) Buddhists of Japan, China, Tibet call it "Hinayana" (Smaller Vehicle - lesser vehicle). They see the Theravada as deficient as those who follow this path are concerned with their own enlightenment solely - no Bodhisattvas (Buddhas to be) saving the greater flock from the Wheel of Life etc. "Hinayana" is seen as perjorative by Theraveda Buddhists. Also, strict Theravada is a bit too ascetic for most Tibetans, some monks enjoy a good swally and a pagga now and again.

Mahayana - collectivist
Hinayana - individualist

Actually, most Tibetan schools, including the Gelugpa and their Bodisattva of Compassion (the Dalai Lama - being the earthly embodiment of Chen Resig/Avalokiteshvara) follow three strands - Theravada/Mahayana/Vajrayana (Tantric), with a healthy dose of native folklore and Hindu mysticism thrown in for good measure.

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:19 am
by flipflop
Old man, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 7th October 2008

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:59 am
by flipflop
The Drum Tower, Xian, China, 2nd November 2006

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Re: flip's flicks

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:19 am
by flipflop
Another day on MSR Tampa south from Baghdad, 10th June 2004. Aftermath of an IED? Dead insurgents? Probably, but I can't be sure. We just sped by as the first US humvees pulled up to secure the scene. Five minutes later we would have been parked up for at least two hours or so as the EOD teams came to mop up. As it happens I just managed to click off a couple of snaps at high speed before someone's death was just another rapidly fading vista in the rear view mirror. Not a bad pic considering I was driving with one hand at 80km/h.

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