Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master's words. Buddha's teachings have some resemblance to those of the later Stoics: he argues that liberation is not gained by rites, liturgies, prayers, magic or sacraments, but only by the deliberate inner search for self. Most effective is right thought and right behavior. Sin does not offend any god, but only the man who commits it. This stern doctrine proved too barren for most men. Within 200 years, Buddha was transformed by followers from Master into Lord, and surrounded by all manner of legend, demonology and ceremonial...
...Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. A coterie of non-blue-chip sophisticates examined by a market analyst who knows both their prices and their values...
Besides the frequent tedium, there was a major sin of omission by not including any Chaplin in this movie. Despite the fact that he is well-known and represented elsewhere, it leaves a gaping hole, and deprives the film of what would probably have been its greatest sections. In lieu of him, the narration elevates Laurel and Hardy, who appear much too often, to the position of chief gods of silent comedy, a claim which cannot be taken seriously by anyone who has seen this movie...
...Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. A coterie of non-blue chip sophisticates examined by a market analyst who knows both their prices and their values...
...With stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain," sighed Friedrich Schiller, and Oscar Wilde added his amen: "There is no sin except stupidity." Both writers had cause for complaint: stupidity, their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...