cause of depression

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Re: cause of depression

Postby BlueLotus » Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:03 pm

BuddhaSoup wrote:If I were a monk, my contributions to this site would certainly be more wise and more profound.

Not necessarily ...
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Re: cause of depression

Postby danieLion » Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:04 pm

tiltbillings wrote:You are a direct health care provider?

danieLion wrote:Define "direct health care provider." This is reminiscent of a belief in the sovereignty of the medical profession.
tiltbillings wrote:So, the take away from this statement is...
...not what you wrote. The take away statement is that your line of inquiry is irrelevant to the OP.
"You stop me, obviously with a demand for a personal explanation. 'How is it, you write, 'that you reject with such immitigable scorn the very foundation-stones of Buddhism, and yet refer disciples enthusiastically to the technique of some of its subtlest super-structures?'

I laff."

-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter XXVII: Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)

"Questions of reality are too important to be left to the scientists."
-Paul Feyerbend, The Tyranny of Science, p. 51 (Polity: 2012).
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