RE: Do you have any interest in the philosophies of introflection pioneered by Buddhism?
January 9, 2024 at 2:31 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2024 at 2:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The bar for a useful philosophy..to me at least, is quite a bit higher than whether or not it contains gods - but we do hear alot of pitches like that. As if, because you don't have to believe in gods to be a buddhist, that would somehow make a given atheist more likely to accept the principles expressed by the religion. The most likely place for you to find people interested in buddhism, amusingly, would be a christian forum. If we can believe the self reported stats then most americans of faith have been influenced by or hold to some belief espoused by buddhism, effected by it's introduction into western pop culture and pretty well delineated on both sides by age. Even when they themselves acknowledge that it is or would be heretical in a plain understanding of their christian faiths. It seems to me, in this, that the appeal of buddhism vis a vis gods actually runs in precisely the opposite direction. You might not have to believe in gods to be a buddhist - but it sure as shit helps.
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