(December 3, 2014 at 9:04 am)Riketto Wrote: And your so called evidence is based on.......?Experiments and reasoning that are explained in the link I provided earlier on why NDE's are not evidence for an afterlife. The link that you refused to read.
Quote:I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you were not commiting an appeal to population/popularity falacy. I was wrong.Quote:Does burning themselves alive count as taking it seriously?.............Or the many restrictions they willingly place on themselves?Try to analyse with more care next time you read my post.
I didn't say that all Buddhists don't take it seriously.
I said.............. In theory Buddhism is all royal cream but how many people take it seriously?.......
Does this means that ALL Buddhist don't take it seriously?
How popular or how seriously a majority of people take someone has nothing to do with the validity of the religion.
Quote:Again, appeal to popularity falacy. It doesn't matter how many christians take their religion seriously for it to still be considered a religion. Why should it matter for the buddhist?Quote:Will they be able to remove themselves from wants?
You got to be joking mate.Quote:You seem to be very ignorant of Buddhism.Again i was referring to the majority not to all of them.
Quote:One thing that i do not agree is to say that ........The complete letting go of these negative influences is called Nirvana......You can have that argument with a buddhist if you want. I don't believe in either.
To me it would be correct to say......The complete letting go of these negative influences LEAD to Nirvana.