Thank you for your comment Mr Ho.
In the 15thc the Buddha story had made its way to Rome and Buddha was made into a Catholic saint!
The amusing part of this is that Christianity aped Buddha's teachings. I keep finding more and more evidence for this. Alexandria was a hot spot for trade and intellectual life. Asoka made a formal system to support monks as missionaries after his conversion and Alexandria was the place for monks to teach, debate and interact. Their influence had already injected itself into Greek philosophy after Alexander's conquests and now a second more intense exchange began in Egypt. The evidence of a direct transfer can be found by lining up the principles of Buddhism, as expounded in the 6thc B.C. to witnesses, memorized and written down, and Christian doctrine by the late 2nd c. A.D.
More and more true historians are coming around to the point of view that the Jesus Christ of the N.T. was a mythical figure and never an actual, historical person. The evidence for Christ as a man is pretty thin: Flavius Josephus, a very biased source, and a few line-item mentions by Roman historians amounting to..'I heard mention of a man ....'.
India and Buddha gave the world the most precise analysis of our human condition, the inherent problem and the elusive, until Buddha expounded upon it, Solution. There is no greater gift than to be pointed towards the exit door. Other religious systems wisely urge correct behaviour and state of mind that provide an exit at Death but none offer the Exit Door in glowing Neon while we are still alive. For this alone, Buddha deserves our thanks and praise.
As far a monotheism goes, I believe some of it has been hijacked by demons. What loving being in a god realm- Indra, Varuna, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Krishna, etc.- would consider the odours of burning animals a suitable offering? They prefer something pure, beautiful and free of suffering: incense, flowers, tea, pure clean water, good fruits both literally and metaphorically.
It is not a popular thing to say but Iconsider Judaism to be inherently evil and blood driven, Islam to be similiarly dangerous, Allah to be some kind of dark entity while Christianity has been made to be whatever the powerful wanted it to be. It has a record of mental enslavement and blood; this seems to be the type for Abrahamic religions. If we believe J. Atwill, the Flavian dynasty created Christianity to try to replace Judaism. They wanted a compliant, meek populace worshipping the Imperator, unknowingly was fine by Titus, as long as they paid homage and obeyed 'God' and his 'Son', the Saviour, the Roman elite were content. They were not content to have nationalalist Jews shrieking 'Moshiach' and killing whole Legions.

It is truly demented that a large part of the world worship made-up fake 'gods' who are most likely tricksters and demons while in the East true spiritual systems such as Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Daoist are hanging on though they do seem fragile.

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in true Buddhism philosophical teachings, you don’t need a savior, you’re your own savior. Buddhism can best be understood as a righteous way to live one’s life. There’s no need to submit to any higher power for this way of life.
 

Buddha, as an avatar of God?
 

In order to be “Iraqed”, mainland China will have to be occupied by a US Expeditionary Force. Please kindly explain how the US Army can pull this off in a conventional war. There are few truisms in war, but Bernard Montgomery sure can teach us two:

1- Do not fight a land war in China

2- Do not march on Moscow

 

A key document in their China conflict planning could be the RAND Corporation report (2016) "War with China: Thinking Through The Unthinkable"

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1100/RR1140/RAND_RR1140.pdf

In part of its summary it says,

• Although a war would harm both economies, damage to China’s would be far worse (perhaps 25–35 percent of GDP after 68 War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable one year). Because much of the Western Pacific would become a war zone, China’s trade with the region and the rest of the world would decline substantially. China’s loss of seaborne energy supplies would be especially damaging.
 

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You're reading it.

That's an onion address and you have to install Tor (specifically, the Tor browser, which is a version of Firefox) to access it.
https://www.torproject.org/
It's easy.
(Don't enable JavaScript when you're running it.)

Just checked and it works for me. It does not work on a standard browser, but it works in a Tor enabled Brave window.