RE: If you were to follow a particular religion...
July 14, 2012 at 1:29 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2012 at 1:54 am by Taqiyya Mockingbird.)
(July 13, 2012 at 10:07 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 13, 2012 at 10:02 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: In the end, I'd go with Buddhism, mainly because it's probably the most sane of the major world religions.
You mean minus self-immolation.
That is a recent bizarre phenomenon that has nothing at all to do with what the man we call the Buddha taught.
(July 13, 2012 at 10:42 pm)Polaris Wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology
Yes it is wiki, but this is more thorough than other sources I have found....I have textbooks I can recommend though.
I was talking about what this fellow the buddha taught.
What you refer to -- as well as the superstitions of karma and reincarnation-- represents later perversions that brahmins and hindus and tibetans and asians inflicted on the Buddha's teachings after his death.
(July 13, 2012 at 10:07 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 13, 2012 at 10:02 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: In the end, I'd go with Buddhism, mainly because it's probably the most sane of the major world religions.
You mean minus self-immolation.
You remember that discussion we had such a long, long time ago about trolling...?
(July 13, 2012 at 10:53 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 13, 2012 at 10:47 pm)padraic Wrote: What? You really don't have a clue,do you. Self immolation and suicide of any kind are not basic tenets of any form of Buddhism any more than burning crosses on people's lawns is a tenet of Christianity. Drongo..
For fuck sake do some reading before you start making stupid claims about other religions.
Neither were the Inquisition and Crusades part of Biblical Christianity, but it still happened and has become an integral part of the history of the Christian religion.
The self-immolation of Quang Duc was an unprecedented political stunt, and unfortunately it has spawned copycats in its wake. It was done in protest of Diem's persecution of the monks (Diem was a catholic -- go figure), but it had never been, and still is not, a "buddhist" practice.
The buddha's monks were isolated from society and non-political. It wa their lot to remove themslves from the concerns of society, and instead focus upon their own practice, discipline and growth.
The inquisition and the crusades were the product of church policy, right from the top.
This self-immolation bullshit was the actions of individual monks and not at all sanctioned or authorized by any sort of governing body.
