(May 2, 2014 at 11:01 am)Riketto Wrote: Because Buddhism like Hinduism like Christianity like Islam are religions.
Spirituality is long gone in these people so without spirituality it is very hard to perceive God.
The fact that some of these people practice meditation means absolutely nothing.
They use old mantras which are worthless.
What is written about Buddha is a load of rubbish.
How Buddha could not believe in God when the meaning of the mantra is...
......i am that entity......i am God?
The meaning of the mantra has always been the same but the sound
is not.
What mantra?! The oldest records of buddhism include no mantras! Again though, you say that religion has made meditation ineffective, it sounds to me like meditation then fails what it has set out to do, which is to allow people to see some truth. And if it could enable people to see the truth then how did the religion get started in the first place? It just does not make sense.
Quote:If i would get stuck on a island with no other food to eat other then
seafood then i would eat seafood as a temporary thing.
That does not mean that i am omnivore.
To be omnivore you got to have a digestive system that is able to cope
with saturated fats, cholesterol and toxins.
We human haven't got that system so it means that after sometime that
i eat a non-veg. diet my system will not be able to cope with that anymore.
A cow is not able to run after an animal to kill it and to cut his skin in order to get to the flesh that is why she would starve.
If she could do all this then she may well eat meat rather then starve.
Exactly it cannot because it is a herbivore, we can therefore we are an omnivore. Being an omnivore does not mean that meat is the most healthiest thing for us! No where is this included in any definition of omnivorous. But we are able to eat meat, even with its bad effects, and survive. Indeed in times of scarcity, as would have been common in the past, it would have been very good for us.
Quote:Ok. let us make an experiment to see if you could cope with the life of
our ancestors.
I send you back 3000 years in time.
You find yourself among people who can cope with that primitive life.
No roads, no cars, no fridge, no electricity with people who believe that
the earth is flat and is the center of the universe.
Their attitude is very simple.
If you are a man they can bash you up if you are a woman they will get you and rape you.
If you say that the earth is round and not flat they will hit you or burn you alive.
Their intellect is very very simple and can only work out simple things.
You automatically understand that your intellect is much more advance
and therefore it is obvious that also your nervous system is also more
sophisticate and a different nervous system require a different type of
treatment.
So you have no idea how our nervous systems are different. The alternative hypothesis to the one you suggest regarding why people believed that the earth was flat etc was because it coincided with their experience. Not because they were stupid. Indeed, how would you know the universe was not spherical without having some education in maths and geometry? Regardless the ancient Greeks did know the earth was round about 3000 years ago, so you argument is just wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_E...cal_Greece
And lets just say it was different, why would these differences mean that acupuncture works? If they were stupid enough to believe things that are wrong, just as a flat earth, then could they also not be stupid enough to believe that sticking needles into someone somehow magically cures disease?
