Thoughts on Buddhism

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Human consciousness is a mysterious thing. Even if "god" exists or not, the human mind and body combination is a miracle I don't care what all the naysayers and cynical atheists say. I don't think many of them have a very good imagination. They think too literally. I am sure they are good people, but they may restrict themselves to logic and computation too much, which is a relatively new social condition. Buddhism is counter-cultural just like John Lennon and Yoko Ono was. They said "Screw the government, Bring down the establishment!" WHY? because it is all an illusion.

Amazing does not equal miraculous. There isn't any naysaying or cynicism in that statement. My imagination is doing fine, thank you.

Buddhism is counter-cultural only if you come from an area that is not now or has not in the past been dominated by Buddhism, which was very much part of the state (in a variety of states) for a very, very long time. The buddhist being the fucking King,ordained by the god-damned cosmos no less! Buddhists definitely don't peddle "screw the government". For the majority of the history of Buddhism neither they (nor the states in question) could imagine a government that did not contain Buddhism. Now that they find themselves on the outs they're selling counter-culture to the new crop are they?

I'm getting the feeling that you, like any religious nutter, know a lot about your faith's myths, but not much about your faith's reality.

I am intrigued with all of your ideas and intellectual argument. It is very informed and educated. I give all of you alot of respect for that,, honestly. I really don't know what to say but that Buddhism is very adaptative and evolutionary in the modern here and now form. It is a peaceful method for undertanding the self and the world. I personally don't think that Buddhism played a very big role in government or politics in Asia throughout the centuries, like Christianity did in Europe. Most of the buddhist monestaries were pretty well isolated up in the mountains. I don't see how any buddhist "doctrine" justfied any abuses of kings or rulers back in the day. Even China's worst dictator in the modern era, Mao Zedong, was not a buddhist by any means. I don't see how Buddhism can support any social mind control propaganda or governmental oppresssion. It explicitly points to individualism and self empowerment. It would be very difficult to twist buddhism into political media.