RE: Thoughts on Buddhism
February 29, 2012 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: February 29, 2012 at 1:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
How is the modern notion of buddhism any different than the modern notion of a philosophical or metaphorical christianity? The buddha sits nowhere, same as christ. Both prop up empty platitudes as timeless wisdom. Both leverage the same flaws in our thought process, etc etc etc.
Yes, people would still have been killed for any number of things, but not that particular thing, and perhaps not those particular people. That would have made all the difference in the world, at least to them. You might want to imagine that those same people would have been killed for another reason, if not superstition, but that's not how it panned out, and implying that they may have, or probably would have been killed for another reason is just hand-waving, an empty excuse for what is inexcusable. Is this the wisdom buddhism has given you? I was raised in a culturally irish catholic family, heavy on the irish fairy tales and light on the catholicism (by light I mean we laughed our asses off about it), do I seem unenlightened, or without wisdom? Seems to me you could have stayed in the faith you were born into and reached the same place.
I generally treat buddhism with a very mild sort of contempt, until buddhists get smug about their ridiculous faith compared to the ridiculous faith of others.
Yes, people would still have been killed for any number of things, but not that particular thing, and perhaps not those particular people. That would have made all the difference in the world, at least to them. You might want to imagine that those same people would have been killed for another reason, if not superstition, but that's not how it panned out, and implying that they may have, or probably would have been killed for another reason is just hand-waving, an empty excuse for what is inexcusable. Is this the wisdom buddhism has given you? I was raised in a culturally irish catholic family, heavy on the irish fairy tales and light on the catholicism (by light I mean we laughed our asses off about it), do I seem unenlightened, or without wisdom? Seems to me you could have stayed in the faith you were born into and reached the same place.
I generally treat buddhism with a very mild sort of contempt, until buddhists get smug about their ridiculous faith compared to the ridiculous faith of others.
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