RE: Thoughts on Buddhism
April 16, 2012 at 1:19 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2012 at 1:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
2,500 years of asian knowledge and practice also gave us "chi", acupuncture, feng shui, and side sweep bangs. Long story short, they're hilariously wrong about as often as anyone else. You're suffering from asian fixation...I've mentioned this before.....
Now, you do realize that you fly off at the handle about people and ego fairly often yes? You may need to tend to your own at some point (that's if you plan on droning on about others, obviously). These are your assertions, it doesn't matter much where you borrowed them from. Handwaving them away in this manner ala "Some really smart asian people totally believe this" isn't going to get you very far. If you cant justify them, assign a truth value to them, then what are you peddling? Platitudes.
(which is honestly all that grinds my gears about buddhism in the first place)
Now, you do realize that you fly off at the handle about people and ego fairly often yes? You may need to tend to your own at some point (that's if you plan on droning on about others, obviously). These are your assertions, it doesn't matter much where you borrowed them from. Handwaving them away in this manner ala "Some really smart asian people totally believe this" isn't going to get you very far. If you cant justify them, assign a truth value to them, then what are you peddling? Platitudes.
(which is honestly all that grinds my gears about buddhism in the first place)
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