@Lars I should compare to cherry pepsi I'm pretty sure I like dr pepper better than all of the other things I listed though

@patchuun never heard of fruitopia...

@risperdoll where do the pringles come in

cherry coke > pepsi > diet coke

@risperdoll @ripperdoll had to look it up. thats freakin hardcore o_o

> The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist, a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
(Ursula Le Guin)

@tk I can't see op

@meeper okay time for me to sleep smdh good talk meep

@meeper I was never a reddit atheist but I once said "I dont believe in God" out loud at hebrew school for the shock value

@meeper when I say jurists I mean secular jurists. I dont mean to say that common law is divine, what I'm saying is that right now common law is better than the dharma sutras/shastras, or sharia, or halakha in many respects. where religious law excels against common law is prohibiting things that are bad but not illegal, but it has a tendency to be incredibly punitive in other cases. thats why its important to look to scripture for higher dharma, like "love your neighbor as yourself" and "abandon all duties and take refuge in Me alone, I will free you from all sins, do not grieve."

@meeper I consider certain upanishads, the brahma sutras, and the bhagavad gita to be scripture personally. as in, highly divinely inspired. some of it directly from God. imo perhaps scripture should never be seen to be more than a way of teaching what is highest dharma, leave lower dharma to the jurists.

@meeper ooooh I really like that I'm gonna put a variant of it in my hymn

@meeper sanatana dharma is in the bhagavata purana, which isnt saying much. I dont consider it scripture for the most part.

@meeper your conception of Gods perfection is very neat but I do think God is capital P perfect personally, perfect in all attributes though transcending all attributes and possessing no attributes all at once. I understand this ontologically, God though containing the All is one "thing" and that thing being slightly different is impossible because such a "thing" wouldnt be God and thus wouldnt exist, because of Gods inherent nature as unique and self-existent (arising from nothing but His own inherent nature to exist, always and forever). so basically, either God is God (and could never be anything else, because if God was even a little bit imperfect nothing would exist at all including God) or maya is at play and the imperfect being is subject to it, and therefore its a jiva whose imperfections cant tarnish God. its hard to explain smdh. God is simply perfect beyond description and beyond fathoming!

@meeper oops I posted without content. anyway I def agree about hinduism offering a lot of freedom, on things like which Gods to worship and what to consider scripture let alone which bhashya and sect to consider authoritative. but cmon you gotta believe Brahman is the ground of all existence and that an Atman exists and transmigrates. and you also should believe in karma and in dharma even just as a abstract concepts. I just consider hinduism inherently religious and not merely cultural, like if its cultural solely just call yourself by the name of your ethnicity, no? but you know more about the nuances of this than I

@meeper

@meeper I agree but I would say that a hindu who doesnt believe in Brahman and Atman isnt a hindu either

@meeper yes I noticed that too. but theres no wikipedia article on muslim atheism huh huh

@meeper Sikhism in my understanding is like if the panentheism and similar hindu metaphysics were kept but with really strong monotheism

@meeper yeah the poll has hindu believers in God split between the large majority who say "I believe in one God with many manifestations" and like 20something percent who say "I believe in one God". bro. both of those things are monotheism (a small amount agreed with neither and I'd call them polytheists)