What Is the Average Lifespan of American Women?

[tumor]

How much money did she leave you?

 

[Saint]

How much money did she leave you?

She is a housewife, my grandpa died in 1970,
do you think she has money ?

I miss her not bcoz of money.

 

[tumor]

I miss her not bcoz of money.

Yeah! right

 

[Math Is Hard]

Good gracious, tumor! Why are you making those assumptions? Have you not ever lost someone you loved? How can you be so callous?

 

[tumor]

Sorry about that Saint, i got carried away.Must be my brain tumor again

 

[Moonbear]

Sorry to be so tardy...
Saint, my condolences on your loss. It sounds like your grandmother lived a long life and it was her time to go. I've been fascinated reading along and learning of the Buddhist funeral traditions. I like that the religions recognizes it isn't as sad for an older person to die, and even signify it by wearing different colors. What is in the bowls during the cremation ceromony, and what does that signify?

 

[Saint]

the bowls contained some food,
chinese believes that dead people's souls need to eat too.

 

[Smurf]

Good gracious, tumor! Why are you making those assumptions? Have you not ever lost someone you loved? How can you be so callous?

It's tumor. He was that way when he came out of the production line.

 

[tumor]

the bowls contained some food,
chinese believes that dead people's souls need to eat too.

This is going into the oven too?... what a waste.

 

[Saint]

This is going into the oven too?... what a waste.

So, burning candles also a waste?
Giving offering to churches also a waste?

 

[tumor]

So, burning candles also a waste?
Giving offering to churches also a waste?

You have a point there,but i think giving to churches at least in greedy N.America is a HUGE waste.

 

[Saint]

You have a point there,but i think giving to churches at least in greedy N.America is a HUGE waste.

you think the money goes into the pocket of pastors/priests, it was not used for public wellfare.

 

[franznietzsche]

you think the money goes into the pocket of pastors/priests, it was not used for public wellfare.

Yeah, pretty much.

 

[Smurf]

That's a pretty well known fact.

 

[tumor]

you think the money goes into the pocket of pastors/priests, it was not used for public wellfare.

Pastor, priest or rabbi for me means thief.

 

[Smurf]

Con-man, Scammer, Exploiter of the middle class.

 

[tumor]

It is easy money though.Especially here in the land of brave and stu...!
I wish I had the talent to talk gibberish , maybe should i read more Biblie?

 

[franznietzsche]

It is easy money though.Especially here in the land of brave and stu...!
I wish I had the talent to talk gibberish , maybe should i read more Biblie?

But then you might become a bible hump...thumper!

 

[Smurf]

I tried reading the bible once.. I didn't get much farther than "There was Light"...

 

[tumor]

Advice#1 . always keep bible handy, in case you run out of toilet paper.

 

[Moonbear]

Guys, you're being awfully callous here! I asked Saint to share with us some of the rituals in a Buddhist funeral, and here you're mocking him when he's just come from the funeral of a loved relative! That's just cruel. Whatever your differences, this is not the time or place for it.

I think it's interesting that they leave food for the deceased. Didn't ancient Egyptians have similar rituals? I love to learn of cultural differences, similarities, and how traditions have spread throughout cultures.

 

[Physics_wiz]

Not sure about the food for Egyptians but I think when an Egyptian pharaoh died, they killed his servants with him so that they could serve him in the after-life.

 

[tumor]

Moonbear? don't blame me , nietzsche and smurf started it

 

[Saint]

I did hear a pastor said this on the podium "If you do not give 1/10 offering, you are actually Stealing from God ; if God can't get what he wants, the Devil will come to take it from you; you may lose your money due to sickness or other misfortunes".

What do you think about his talk?
An intimidation?

 

[Saint]

The true Buddhism is vegetarian,
only fruits and vegetables will be put to worship their Buddha/Bodisatwa,
for chinese,
we put chicken, pork etc. for our ancestors.

 

[tumor]

Well..if pastor says something like that, it must be truth.

 

[Moonbear]

I did hear a pastor said this on the podium "If you do not give 1/10 offering, you are actually Stealing from God ; if God can't get what he wants, the Devil will come to take it from you; you may lose your money due to sickness or other misfortunes".

What do you think about his talk?
An intimidation?

I do think that was intimidation, and not very Christian sounding for a pastor. The 1/10th offering is straight from the Bible, but not many people really adhere to that much anymore.

 

[Moonbear]

The true Buddhism is vegetarian,
only fruits and vegetables will be put to worship their Buddha/Bodisatwa,
for chinese,
we put chicken, pork etc. for our ancestors.

Is there a reason for including meat now when Buddhism is traditionally vegetarian, or just a shift from older traditions to newer ones or relaxing the rules?

 

[tumor]

The true Buddhism is vegetarian,
only fruits and vegetables will be put to worship their Buddha/Bodisatwa,
for chinese,
we put chicken, pork etc. for our ancestors.

So this is Buddhism a-la Chinese edition? In this case you are going to hell.

 

[Saint]

Buddhism came from India to China,
traditional chinese does not follow everything of buddhism.
It is common that chinese worship their ancestors with meat.
But buddhist chinese will not do this.
In my grandma funeral, there was no meat, only vegetarian food.