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Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

trainsplanes wrote: post #32
string wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a friendly heads up: I used to be a huge fan of this YT channel until I saw some pretty damning evidence that the guy is a predatory sex tourist/pick up artist. I really enjoyed the content (the editing is a breath of fresh air on YT), but ultimately unsubbed and stopped watching. I'd encourage others to look into it and make your own judgement, of course.

Whenever I see this man mentioned, I always see a comment saying, "This man travels AND has sex!" It's about as surprising as someone visiting Amsterdam and having the audacity to smoke weed or single guys doing what single guys do when they visit SE Asia.

Gross, man -- he actually brags about raping/coercing girls.

"Oh, you'd like a taster? Well how about the time when Vorkuta boasts of forcing a young hitchhiker to give him a blowjob in exchange for $6. On the threat that if she did not comply he might leave her in the middle of nowhere as they were travelling alone in a car on some deserted highway somewhere in the FSU. You can only imagine how scared she must have been."

From the previously linked: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm...

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by Quarrelsome »

girvo wrote: post #45
Quarrelsome wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I stopped watching afterwards. Do you realise if you want to be morally consistent like that then the only limiting factor is your ignorance? By that I mean its likely A LOT of the content you currently consume or products you use/buy are unethical in some way but you just don't know they are. I'd like to suggest that if you're not trying to fog-bust your ignorance by personally auditing all your supply chains acti…

How does choosing not to watch someone’s channel “force” people to conform to your beliefs? I don’t get it.

It doesn't sorry, I rather mean that one is forcing a personal sense of morality on one's supply chain, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But what is bad is that one only drops what is advertised to them as being bad which makes one think it was never about the sense of morality in the first place.

The implication being that every single supply chain is bad (e.g. cobalt mining in DRC) but we conveniently just don't uncover everything because we'd have to drop too much. We're terrified (to an extent) to accept the negative impact our existence has in this world so pursue a dream of moral purity to escape that harrowing reality.

Bald is a sex tourist so we'll never watch his channel but where is our cobalt mined from? As long as we don't know (our ignorance gives us plausible deniability) we can keep buying products that indirectly kill children while still showing everyone how good we are by not watching Bald's content. I think there's a hypocrisy here because I think relatively speaking Bald is acceptable but to purge him and just permit the rest (because the subjects are more boring or more distant) I think is bullshit.

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

febeling wrote: post #14
Archelaos wrote: post #4

I always find it quite embarrassing when right-wing politicians here in Germany come up with this or that does not belong to Europe. In all cases this only shows their geographical and historical ignorance. Kalmykia is a good example. Most of these politicians have never understood that Buddism has been part of Europe for centuries. My favorite example, however, is that they mostly do not know that we have had a perm…

To call that bend on the Volga where Kazan is located Europe shows how much you need to stretch the facts to support that view. Citing Bosnia might have helped your point better, I guess.

How about this, then: the region we're talking about is right in the homeland of the Yamnaya people, AKA the people who spoke Proto-Indo-European, and the ancestors of all Europeans. ("region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers" as per WP)

In terms of genetics, the R1b haplogroup spread from that region, and is the most common haplogroup among modern Europeans.

So, if you're European or European-descended, many of your ancestors lived there a few thousand years ago. And the language you just wrote in traces its ancestry back to that region (as does German)

EDIT: The point of what I wrote is just that the ethno-linguistic composition of regions is very fluid, and drawing lines around a region and saying "this is what German is" (or whatever) is just a dumb exercise when you put it in historical context. (My own ancestors include many in Alsace, so I'm keenly aware of this -- what's "French"? what's "German"?). Essentialism is dumb.

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by ainiriand »

Archelaos wrote: post #4

I always find it quite embarrassing when right-wing politicians here in Germany come up with this or that does not belong to Europe. In all cases this only shows their geographical and historical ignorance. Kalmykia is a good example. Most of these politicians have never understood that Buddism has been part of Europe for centuries. My favorite example, however, is that they mostly do not know that we have had a perm…

It is also worth noting that the Iberian peninsula where it is now Spain was an Arab region for 800 some years. The Spanish language is full of words with Arab roots and Arab culture is everywhere in Spain.

It is funny to see the right wing politics trying to preserve this national Spanish heritage that they came up with.

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by ainiriand »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #15
Archelaos wrote: post #4

I always find it quite embarrassing when right-wing politicians here in Germany come up with this or that does not belong to Europe. In all cases this only shows their geographical and historical ignorance. Kalmykia is a good example. Most of these politicians have never understood that Buddism has been part of Europe for centuries. My favorite example, however, is that they mostly do not know that we have had a perm…

All this is because humans prefer to generalize rather than be precise and this applies to both left and right. Right, because Islam is an old religion and has been a part of Europe (and other continents) for centuries; these native Muslim communities are in general well-integrated and have a rich history; they have nothing to do with ISIS-style extremism. There are peaceful Muslim communities often react immediately…

When you say that all cultures are equal is a lie, do you mean that there are cultures that are better than others? Maybe you mean that there are certain aspects of some cultures that are worth abandoning and some others worth preserving. Do you think there is nothing left to improve in Western culture?

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by trainsplanes »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #51
trainsplanes wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I see this man mentioned, I always see a comment saying, "This man travels AND has sex!" It's about as surprising as someone visiting Amsterdam and having the audacity to smoke weed or single guys doing what single guys do when they visit SE Asia.

Gross, man -- he actually brags about raping/coercing girls. "Oh, you'd like a taster? Well how about the time when Vorkuta boasts of forcing a young hitchhiker to give him a blowjob in exchange for $6. On the threat that if she did not comply he might leave her in the middle of nowhere as they were travelling alone in a car on some deserted highway somewhere in the FSU. You can only imagine how scared she must have…

People post a lot of wild stories on forums and places like reddit. Oftentimes they exaggerate or make up crazy events. It's not enough to push me to go after them.

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by bcatanzaro »

Archelaos wrote: post #4

I always find it quite embarrassing when right-wing politicians here in Germany come up with this or that does not belong to Europe. In all cases this only shows their geographical and historical ignorance. Kalmykia is a good example. Most of these politicians have never understood that Buddism has been part of Europe for centuries. My favorite example, however, is that they mostly do not know that we have had a perm…

Bashkortostan is also part of Europe and very Muslim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan

Not to mention the Muslim Balkans.

I bet there are many other examples.

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by Quarrelsome »

nerdponx wrote: post #46
Quarrelsome wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

also worth noting that some people go _well_ out of their way to express this point of view. There's even a subreddit dedicated to it (and at least once upon it was 'busy'). My issue is that it gives the impression that someone has a lot of free time and a serious axe to grind. Nothing he is accused of is illegal, it may be reprehensible but I don't demand moral consistency of those that entertain me, just adherence…

Pretty sure rape is illegal in most jurisdictions.

he isn't accused of rape, he's accused of sex tourism and general misogyny.

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by qwerty456127 »

It seems weird Buddhism is such a minor religion in Europe while it is so rational, based on individual experience (rather than belief) gained through reproducible applied self-regulation techniques, backed by neuroscience and explained with consistent philosophical logic.

Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe

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Post by scanny »

string wrote: post #10
elros wrote: post #2

Bald has been there couple of years ago, that's when I first heard about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts

Just a friendly heads up: I used to be a huge fan of this YT channel until I saw some pretty damning evidence that the guy is a predatory sex tourist/pick up artist. I really enjoyed the content (the editing is a breath of fresh air on YT), but ultimately unsubbed and stopped watching. I'd encourage others to look into it and make your own judgement, of course.

Thanks for the pointer, and what I read here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm... from a child comment. Won't be watching anything out of that channel again.
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