All Things History

Ben Franklin proposed this as a motto to the newly founded America:

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God".

Nice I think and catchy too.

I don't think Franklin was referring to any specific tyrant, but George III would likely have been one.

I think King James chartered the first colony in the "New World", Charles I too. George III was King during the Revolutionary War.

Yes, I did know. I think General George Washington erected "Fort Necessity" while under attack by the British and American Indians. Anyway...



I suspect even the “American Indians” engaged in invasion and wars of conquest with their neighboring tribes. I doubt they lived some idyllic communal life.

Whether invasions (migration) are “good” or “bad”, I suppose, depends upon the perspective of the members of the particular society or tribe; invaders versus those invaded.

Distilled down Aristotle said something to the effect; “diversity plus proximity equals war”.

Assimilation is the remedy for the adverse effects of migration and borders are the remedy for proximity.

Open borders are lunacy.

Sportsmanship has an elegance. Well done.

Of course it was. I think so anyway.

It's me but I'm not sure what you mean.

Actually it's the opposite, considering the Indian and Eastern Dharma/Sramana religions.
Killing is considered highly offensive even when it is done for the sake of religion.

Jains (from 6 BCE until now) refuse to wear clothes, cut hair, walk without pre-sweeiping in order to abstain from unintentional killing of micro organisms even. It is called extreme innocence.

Buddhists (from 6 BCE until now) believe that any form of killing or torture is a grave offence. It is their first precept. The Buddha had said, if bandits were to cut you with a saw, and you give birth to even an angry thought, you are not following my advice. It is such an innocent religion.

Mainly the religions which teach Kamma/karma are not into any religious war, as far as I know.

I was going to say Buddha would roll in his grave if he saw what monks claiming to follow his teaching do and the horrors they inflict, but that could be said of any religious creator. The fact is it's all fine and dandy in theory but once human beings get involved it all goes to Hell in a hand cart.

Well of course there are always people who will follow their own version of their own god. This little statistic may impress?

The  'religious' hierarchy are only there for what suits them. It's not the 'little people' to blame, it's those that guide them. 

There is little wrong with any of the gods as far as I can tell, it's all of the religions, and the religious staff that is the problem.

It is all just so strange to look at from outside. As a quick for instance:
Why do you have to pray together?
Why do you have to go to the same building?
Why do you have to put money into the church?
Why do you have to get more people to join?
Why do places of worship have to be so expensive?
Why do you have to chant the same stuff every time?

I may get a god one day, but I am sure I would find it a lot easier if there were no formal religions.

Buddhists don't believe in a god (creator). They believe Causality (dependent origination) as what governs the world.
Americans mostly think Tibetan Buddhism as the Buddism because both are against China. It's an political preference.

The religions of many other Asian countries are Orthodox Buddhism (Theravada) and Unorthodox Buddhism (Mahayana).

Unlike in other religions' sects, the differences between sects defines whether it is Buddhist or Non-buddhist from each sect's angle.

Actually in Buddism, no political hierarchies are allowed. Only the age-seniority and teaching are allowed.

Any form of 'using money' is prohibited. Involvement in public affairs is prohibited.

All these are not needed in Buddhism. Some of them are strictly prohibited even.

In Buddhist case, it's the fault of lax practitioners in modern era who have been industrialized.

Mostly pure Buddhism is practised in forest monasteries. The Buddha encouraged monks to live in forests. Yet village and city monasteries are accepted, only if they are disciplined.

I personally don't think that every formal religion in theory is wrong, or every view is wrong.

What is wrong is either a wrong religion or a wrong way of practicing.

If someone rejects formal religions and believes in a personal view, it is his religion.

Religion means the view.

That would explain my yawn.

Lets face it they couldn't get much worse. melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-did-wealthy-tourists-visit-bedlam.html?m=1

A place so awful we've kept the name to denote total mad chaos.

OHs family ended up in the workhouse in London picking rope. One relative died there, she had dementia but was made to work anyway.
rovingcrafters.com/2016/02/01/prisoners-poverty-and-picking-oakum/

What's the problem with sex education?

Unwanted pregnancies should be prevented, particularly if you have concerns over what you call "free stuff".

I shant ask about racism. I doubt if I would appreciate your answer........