(December 30, 2015 at 1:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(December 30, 2015 at 1:05 pm)miaharun Wrote: Hello Sir, I am a Buddhist and i don't believe the fantasy written in the books. Things like the divine speaking to the queen, flowers appeared from nowhere when the Buddha was born. Those are exaggerated claims. I don't think most sensible people who follow it believe in that. The Buddha has thought us first to observe what he has thought and only if it agrees with us, then practise it. Nowhere does he say "follow me because i am the truth" . What it teaches in a nutshell is to live a righteous life and to finally be free from all suffering. Doesn't imply that one finds eternal paradise. One just seizes to exist. I am fine with anyone calling it "nonsense" or "bullxxxx" :-)
No you are not fine with anyone calling it nonsense otherwise why make the attempt to "correct" me.
Maybe he was just holding a mirror up to what he perceived as your ignorance on the issue? Isn't that what this thread is about? The ability to correct people without being called angry militants? Yet he politely corrects what he thought were misrepresentations, and then you respond weirdly aggressively.
