atheists and "conspiracy" theories

[Angrboda]

So, in other words, now you're claiming to follow the teachings of a fictional character. I know a guy who thinks Bugs Bunny is the next Messiah. I can get you in on the ground floor if you like.



(Btw, you didn't explain away his failures as a husband, a father and a ruler. Shy, quiet and didn't give a fuck about anybody but himself. "I'm going to die eventually! Boohoo! I'll run off into the forest and start flagellating myself!" They didn't have the words back then, but such a reaction would easily qualify for what psychiatrists refer to as "an adjustment disorder", a pathological and unhealthy reaction to an otherwise normal stressor. But by all means, continue to play the role of the diligent apologist, claiming things you can't possibly know - like the psychological reasons for his reticence to teaching the Dharma; given that he was a prince of the realm, had a wife, and went on to bore the pants off his followers ad libitum at the drop of a hat, I find your assertion of his shyness to be simply made up on the spot out of whole cloth. But why bother, since the Buddha you're apparently now claiming to know so intimately probably didn't even exist, according to you. We now have a word for such things as well; it's called kettle logic. ["I wasn't there, and even if I was, I couldn't have done it!"] Originally when I sized you up in the thread on Buddhism, and corrected you on doctrine, I thought you were just an ignorant and innocent buffoon. I no longer am willing to be that generous.)