I had a difficult time processing all of this at the office today, and your writing genuinely helped. May it never come to a hundredth of what some of us have already had to endure! I hope we'll cross paths again sometime.
You probably could define Buddhism as a derivative of Hindu practice honestly, if only because so many core ideas are clearly in conversation with Hindu concepts
What's funny is that Vajrapani - who eventually led to those big thundery guys with clubs you see at the entrance to Buddhist temples in Japan - was based on Hercules, pretty much 1:1.
I like to think Herc converted and found peace.
Update: coup not going as planned
*CITIZENS TAKE OVER MAIN PLAZA IN BOLIVIA'S LA PAZ: WITNESS
*FORMER BOLIVIA GENERAL WHO LED UPRISING HAS LEFT PLAZA: UNITEL
Do what you gotta, man! It's been cool to chat* but it is better to break regularly and often than to succumb to the Madness.
* - ok mostly I made smartass replies but that's basically chatting
But Times/Siena had so much of the other problem they commented on it. They can't BOTH be right.
"I ain't talkin to you! Only NATIONAL POLLS from the FAILING NEW YORK TIMES! **TRUMP!!!**"
By showing signs of Republican apostacy, those people have stopped being Real Americans, and as such, must be discounted, as only the Real Americans can truly be said to be citizens of the United States.
Not that I am bitter.
If you want to trade on your pundit reputation, you are going to say "Trump's probably winning" no matter the the data says. If he loses, fine, can you blame (Pundit) after 2016? If he wins, you were the contrarian who spoke truth to power.
Except of course, if everyone's a contrarian...
Yeap. Some signal might emerge nearer to, and if Trump shits his pants at the debate he could lose.
I'll be fair to Trump: He probably won't shit in his drawers.
Probably.
