RE: I'm an atheist but I quite like Buddism...
January 10, 2015 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2015 at 7:23 am by ComradeMeow.)
(January 9, 2015 at 11:42 pm)dyresand Wrote:(January 9, 2015 at 11:36 pm)PhiloTech Wrote: There is nothing useful in Buddhism anymore. Buddhism needs to fade and the only reason it exist is because of culture, tradition and ritualism. All of these things are fine and all but their purpose as functional philosophies are nonexistent. Buddhism is filled with woo and is entirely reliant upon it. The things Buddhism tries to address are secular and real but the philosophy of it is reliant upon superstition
Philosophy is useless and i agree with Neil deGrasse Tyson..
Science renders Philosophy useless i mean we really don't need it anymore.
Why get a degree in philosophy anymore anyways and why learn about it...?
I never claimed philosophy is worthless, quite the opposite. But you must realize without philosophy you would not have ethical systems and political systems right? Science is also a branch of philosophy.
Your intellectual merit just dropped to 0 with such a statement
(January 10, 2015 at 3:40 am)One Above All Wrote: Yes, religions are based on and filled with woo. That's why they're religions. Nevertheless, if people find meaning in it (which they do - there's a use for it) and it doesn't harm others (which it doesn't, within reason), who gives a fuck?
That is not the point.
The point is that Buddhism is not compatible with naturalistic atheism and it is also no different than a religion like Islam for example. People think it is somehow exempt
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