PoorManQ45 wrote:Oh wait, I just got that one.. Hahaha, that's funny, you think you're god. Well then I'm buddha. I'll sit my 600Lb a** on you!
Siddhartha Gotama was actually a very, very slender man. He often deprived himself of physical pleasures, including food, in an attempt to detach himself from craving and desire. Particularly, the four noble truths focus on this, saying in part that the human condition involves a lifetime of craving, wanting, and desire, with suffering as a result.Economists simply call this "scarcity."
He also never declared himself a god. Many of his followers elevated him to a level of godly worship, which he didnt ask for. Because of this glorification, they plumped him up in a lot of statues and figures to make him look prosperous and noble, which in many eastern cultures is how fat people are perceived.
In the dangling statue hanging from my rear view mirror, he is a realistically skinny man.