(December 29, 2015 at 5:25 am)Rhythm Wrote: Precisely, it's....
Quote:helped me in many ways
....eh? If you're the kind of guy who'd push old ladies in the street, or skullfuck a toddler...and buddhism is what keeps you from doing that....then go for it. This, and any criticism of this must be shared by both yourself, and the god believers who offer the same explanation. Validity for either notion is based upon pragmatism in your example. Either ridicule of the one applies to the other, or you have settled for inconsistency in your comments.
But sir, "Helped me in many ways" , I don't have a deity helping me, guiding me, looking out for me or any of the things that deities do. If i want help i will ask a real person. if i want forgiveness i will ask a real person. If i want to have a meaningful conversion i will have it with a real person. i don't believe in talking to "imaginary friends". I am still confused as to why you think my beliefs are the same as theists.
What i believe "Karma" "(in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences" - Google
Very very different. If i do good, good will follow and if i do bad bad will follow. My actions and i"m responsible for them. I make my fate.
Empathy works for me too. Most of the time at work i put myself into the other person shoes and think.
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path" - Gautama Buddha
