I hadn't heard about BNet being sold to Fox. Eew.

Greetings Tex, No problems. :focus: In many respects it is the topic. :ugeek: Being an alternative to E-Sangha that permitted discussion on early Buddhism was part of its raison d'etre' Metta, Retro. :) The funny thing is that Websangha was initially founded with no concern about E-Sangha whatsoeve...

Thanks for the kind words. :) In the end, it's all a celebration of impermanence. We provided a bit of an alternative for those who needed one. The domains "websangha.org" and "websangha.com" have been removed from the registry, so they're freely available if anybody should want ...

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To let out a wee secret we have the "Charnel Grounds" (borrowed from Termite's Websangha) for posts that have been removed from view. It's strange that I was unaccountably drawn to read this thread tonight, when I haven't logged on here for ages. Odd. It's nice to know that something has ...

And as we see, Vincent has provided the only reasonable way of taking the outlandish numbers in the commentarial literature literally. Yes, and it's a shame that it will go unnoticed for the most part, because his observation was hugely significant. Vast change can happen over tiny lengths of time;...

The Visuddhimagga states: "No doer of the deeds is found, No one who ever reaps their fruits. Empty phenomena roll on. This only is the correct view. No god nor Brahma can be called The maker of this wheel of life: Empty phenomena roll on, Dependent on conditions all." There don't appear ...

That the true path is free from torture, free from groaning and free from suffering. Sorry...the path is full of torture, groaning, and suffering...it's only when one is liberated that these things are eliminated...then the path has been followed to the end (and the goal has been reached)...i.e. no...

I just discovered this conversation. Wow. I'd like to thank all participants for the thought-provoking ride. One thought that was provoked during the ride was how easily the prospect of vast numbers of countless lives seems to be grasped. It's almost as if we knew something about such large numbers,...

(Just to be clear, I'm not answering from any "Abhidhammic" insight. :) ) It seems to me that those four "properties" of matter are experiential in nature, rather than theoretical. :reading: An old science teacher of mine once described a gelatin as "a liquid dissolved in a ...

"...high on the hog..."

Actually, I do put the responsibility squarely on any institutionalized religion (Buddhism included) that doesn't acknowledge that what they widely disperse is potentially mind-altering and potentially dangerous to many people, especially in this time/place when the collective human mind is in a ne...

The biggest problem is that you can't really "mirror" a moderated forum with a mailing list, because moderator changes will not update the "mirror." For example, all of the subscribers will receive copies of posts that violate the terms of service, even if the offending post was ...

I found this running a query for "clear the table". I think it might be what you are looking for. http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=263369 Read the second post. That appears to be a PHPBB2 solution for a damaged database. This is just a case of the software doing what it's as...

This conversation is so...yesterday. :rofl: You would know then. I typed several long pages of replies and then deleted them. Fine. Let it die. We are hopeless fools and no one cares. Good to know. I was only joking, based upon it having been the day after April Fools' Day. I gladly accept "ho...