(February 4, 2012 at 12:57 pm)RW_9 Wrote: I know, lets play a game. We all make up terms for everyday emotions, throw in some wish thinking and self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we call it a philosophy so it doesn't sound too much like a pseudoreligion. Yay fun.
Bgood, if your worldview works for you, so be it. I think its silly, but as far as worldviews go its pretty innocuous, so have fun.
Im not completely knocking Buddhism. I find it much better composed than Christianity, and much less hateful...but it is not without their own form of bullshit claims.
What they consider a "oneness" I see as loss of individuality in the mind. I have taken enough halucinogens to personally come to the conclusion that all of these "one with the universe" claims are not really what they are hyped up to be.
Sure, we all come from the same source, the big bang, and that we are biologically RELATED to all life on this planet, molecularly related to this planet, and atomically related to the universe, and all of that can be tested and predictions performed in the theory...which means it is good science...but that is a far cry from "being one" with the universe, as if your thoughts are the universes thoughts and vice versa. If that were true then every single animal and human would be thinking the same as you. This can be tested and proven to not be an accurate assumption. I veiw feelings of such "oneness" as more of a loss of individuality. A momentary disconnect from "me", or the ego, or whatever you want to call it, and more of the brain confusing input as itself, rather than outside and seperate of itself.
I hope that I made sense. If you didnt get it I can try another way of explaining my opinion of it.
..and Im not knocking it either. Its a rather strange and exciting sensation to consider what you are looking at as you, not a plant, but you.
Its nothing more than mind games.
