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Buddhism, founded in the late 6th century B.C.E. by Siddhartha Gautama (the "Buddha"), is an important religion in most of the countries of Asia. Buddhism has assumed many different forms, but in each case there has been an attempt to draw from the life experiences of the Buddha, his teachings...

Questions I & III It seems evident that due to it's limited access via social castes as well as it's provincial ideology once attained, education before the 1800's played a limited role in the history of Education. From the rhetoric-based Greek age of Plato and Aristotle to colonial...

What has happened to Confucianism. For a long time, Confucian was accepted as the idea that a healthy society depended on a solid traditional family. Confucius himself, for example, called for people to put principle above selfish desires. People supported hierarchy. The rulers moral example...

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Aria ? Ezra #7 | Because “they’re soulmates, they’re meant to be together.” - Marlene King Grr, my internet crashed when I was almost done with this post. The rewrite isn't as awesome as my first try. :mad: I can't take any of the third party "love interests" seriously. I think mostly...

Bo & Lauren [Lost Girl] #1 - Because they had their eyes on each other since the moment they met.. Ok I hate writting those kind of things, because I'm so damn lazy. :lol: But I'll come up with something. Should I PM you the "story" or should I just write it here?

The correct analogy is, you get a bank to loan you the value of your yearly income * .5, so you have 1.5x your income at your disposal. You spend all of it, mostly on nothing of value. Then, you say "I have a deficit!" - so you take a handgun, go to your boss and hold it to his head and tell...

Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #144: Jenny - "I think this is the best day of my life." :lmao::lmao::lmao:

Bo & Lauren [Lost Girl] #1 - Because they had their eyes on each other since the moment they met.. :nod: she's wearing a brown leather jacket. I remeraber she also wears leather in ep 11 :drool:

I loved the beginning when they were at the drive in. It was hilarious to hear what they were both thinking. :lol:

Peeta ? Katniss {The Hunger Games} #7 ~ “No one really needs me.” "I do. I need you." :wave: Welcome, Gio. PK are pretty amazing, they have such great moments in each book but I have to agree - their moments in CF were especially powerful. :love:

One of my favorite TTT moments is when Aragorn gets to Helms Deep, after everyone thought he was killed, and Legolas returns the evenstar to him. So lovely - both for the way Aragorn looks (he was so glad to have it back, even though he thought Arwen had gone to the Undying LanRAB by then) and...

If someone is a consistent Marxist, they're a partisan. I've never seen someone argue before that consistency to an ideology was the same thing as partisanship.

That does not mean there was a god!

One could argue that the systems currently in place are not capable of correcting this problem, and the only solution is to remove it by force. A country in chaos is going to make for some sweet youtube videos. Saawweett.