(December 7, 2014 at 10:28 am)Riketto Wrote: You didn't get my irony didn't you surgen?What was your point then?
Quote:Your evidence is testimonials. Testimonials are the worst kind of "evidence" because the pateints don't know the cause, the time of the cause, are suggestable, etc... You have to better than that to convince someone. There is actual research done on NDE's that you seem to ignoring.Quote:Provide your source for this claim.When you got sometime go through as many NDEs as you can in the link that i already gave
http://www.nderf.org/NDERF/NDE_Archives/NDERF_NDEs.htm
.....and click on the name of those persons who had an NDE to see in details.
Quote:So now the tactic is ignore the countering evidence and live in your lala land.Quote:So your tactic is to completely ignoring the point, and spouting gibberish.I already explained how according to me the system works in case of an NDE.
God let you believe whatever you like so if you are a Christian or a Buddhist or belong to any other denomination he will let you see the divinity or your belief in Him.
But God doesn't have a body figure so at the end it doesn't really matter what it is the figure.
You automatically know that that figure is God.
Quote:It doesn't matter how many people follow exactly what Buddha says. The Buddhist religion says the ultimate goal is to rid oneself of wants. It's all internally focused. So your imaginary seperation between spiritualism is internal and religion is external is bullshit.Quote:You should know there is a difference between what the doctrine says, and what people actually do. I'm arguing about what the Buddhist doctrine says. The doctrine says that the end goal of Buddhist is to remove oneself from wants.
I agree that Buddha philosophy say that.
All i am telling you is that probably less than 1% of the so called Buddhists follow in a practical way that philosophy.
I travel a lot in Thailand, Singapore and Hong kong and i see what Buddhist do and i often talk to them that is why i can say that almost nobody follow Buddha philosophy.
I have seen Buddhists monks smoking and eating meat.
How the hell can you remove yourself from wants when in fact you carry on with the most crude and unhealthy practices?