Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gerhard Hoffmann Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: NASA's most advanced telescope complete after 20 years (PHOTO) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 00:56:38 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <_P3Vz.51090$wO.50628@fx37.am4> <9s2c2c5cnk6vrtltgigjbkv0nhl81ga7j1@4ax.com> <15KVz.103419$UM.9764@fx40.am4> Reply-To: ghf@hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ClyCwd2m1J5xcuB6yZHkDg1I5fm7lMLdmsQehnuYtRc9DaHOAR Cancel-Lock: sha1:sxyHfGEmoaI+4ST9K/iQfAYmUQ0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 In-Reply-To: <15KVz.103419$UM.9764@fx40.am4> Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:435239 Am 12.11.2016 um 20:30 schrieb Tom Gardner: > On 12/11/16 17:46, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote: > >> (Maybe the few Jains exempted and it fits the picture >> that they don't have gods.) > > Neither do Buddhists, but despite their pacifist > reputation, they can be pretty nasty to each other. Yes, they can be flexible. In Nepal, I used to see home altars with pictures of the Buddha, HH the Dalai Lama, the king (who claimed to be a divine reincarnation, but Hindu style) and.... Bruce Lee. Nowadays, the king has probably dropped out of the quartet. And in the mahayana Buddhism, all kinds of deities are sorted in again, whatever the surrounding substrates may offer. regards, Gerhard