And since I've been born I've broken each of them. So…
Breaking precepts isn't fatal
You said that breaking them prevents me from being human.
How do I arrange it so I come back as a herbivore?
Breaking a precept isn't the only factor
You seem like a good person (this is a factor)
Accept the afterlife is real
(Animals are not concerned about the afterlife)
It's logical…
But if I break any one of them then I can't achieve humanity. Is that right?
Is that your reason for believing in it? It's logical? Because it doesn't appear that way to me. Something a little more concrete from you would be good.
The Egyptians were concerned about the afterlife
That is their humanity
If I kill something then it's dead. Not much wiggle room there. When it's dead it's 100% dead.
So it's logical and the Egyptians were concerned about it.
Have you been a Buddhist long or is this a recent thing?
The transition to Buddhism was slow and difficult
Starting early in life and moving away from normal concerns
I don't recommend Buddhism because it's like…
Something like having everything you care about stolen
Then I'll give it a miss. Thanks for your input.
You could have pulled out the numbers, as I requested, since you provided the source.'As such, using obituaries published in an Amish and Mennonite correspondence newspaper allows us to track patterns in the number of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and compare to patterns of death over the past five years. We find the number of fatalities among Amish and Mennonites did indeed increase in the 2020 pandemic and followed similar trend lines of deaths in the USA.
The large number of excess deaths among the Amish and Mennonite community is concerning, as it indicates not only the presence, but the impact of COVID-19 on this community. ' Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Journal of Religion and Health
No, we don't. We have estimations.I gave a link to a paper devoted to the Amish excess deaths statistics as "...a means to estimate the lethality of COVID-19 (directly and indirectly)"; so yes, we do have stats on excess deaths.
Not much you can do about dying but take precautions to put it off as long as possible and make it as painless as possible.I'm concerned about dying
I'm concerned about the afterlife
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