RE: How very true.
June 4, 2012 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2012 at 2:58 pm by Gooders1002.)
(June 4, 2012 at 1:40 pm)SophiaGrace Wrote: Okay so since Buddhism doesn't have a hell, do you respect that?
Well Buddhism are not in your face telling your going to a pit of fire or turned into something lesser and are peaceful (for the most part) is and would say to some degree, yes.
(June 4, 2012 at 1:32 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(June 4, 2012 at 12:33 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: I define "respect for religion" as it: what respect. until it does more good then harm it will not have my respect.And when I say that, I'm called names.
Well you do go on and have strange superiority complex saying (or almost saying) Turkey is the best country in the world. There is patriotism, then there taking the piss.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
