Do you have any interest in the philosophies of introflection pioneered by Buddhism?

[brewer]

I have always been quite introspective, without the need of an unnecessary belief system.

Buddhism is neat like that where you can just apply the philosophy without any deistic preferences.

I don't see much application in your behavior.

[no one]

god's flame? Does it hurt when god pees? Maybe Mary wasn't so pure after all.

[Nay_Sayer]

I dunno do you have any interest in having an honest intellectual discussion about anything ever?

Thoughts and prayers. RAmen

[Authari]

Buddhism is neat like that where you can just apply the philosophy without any deistic preferences.

I don't see much application in your behavior.

Oh trust me, my behavior is completely rational.

[Belacqua]

I have always been quite introspective, without the need of an unnecessary belief system.

Buddhism is neat like that where you can just apply the philosophy without any deistic preferences.

Recently, just by chance, I was reading about a guy called Thomas Keating, who started what seems to be a Christianized version of Buddhist meditation. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centering_prayer

Apparently there are also meditative practices in East Orthodox monasteries that closely resemble this, though I don't know if there's direct Buddhist influence there. 

Are these the kind of introspective practices you're thinking of here? 

I do think that making a habit of such meditation would be a really healthy thing to do. Unfortunately when I tried I was really bad at it. 

And as we can see, in the neoliberal bourgeois culture we have now, such practices can only be accepted if they are shown to have utilitarian therapeutic value. And then I think they have become something different from what they started out as.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't see much application in your behavior.

Oh trust me, my behavior is completely rational.

Your behaviour reminds me the in a scene in A Fish Called Wanda where Jaime Lee Curtis is going off on Kevin Kline and tells him, 'The central message of Buddhism is NOT "every man for himself"!'

From what I can see, it also wouldn't surprise me if you thought Aristotle was Belgian.

Boru

[no one]

Authari, you would not know rational if it walked up to you kicked you in the mug, and set you on fire.

The captain of your brain dinghy, is not only drunk, but a meth head too. And also, quite stupid.


Did your parents have any kids that lived?

[brewer]

I don't see much application in your behavior.

Oh trust me, my behavior is completely rational.

Exactly what a demented person would say.

[h4ym4n]

Oh trust me, my behavior is completely rational.

Exactly what a demented person would say.

He’s probably heard this all his many reincarnated lives

He says his god dumbs down every version. He estimates he’s been reincarnated thousands of times. 

So there’s that.

[The Valkyrie]

Real moment here, I love Buddhism with all my Soul, though I don't much care for its Priesthood, I have that same relationship with the Roman Catholic Church... anyways my Soul is ever on fire with the Light of God's Flame, look towards Sol brother from whence all Souls come from Soldiers one and all. Or are you not versed in the Aryan-Hyksos matrimony? God's Chosen People indeed... The Gardens of Babylon must have been a spectacular garden to behold...

No.

Can I interest you in the extended warranty?