Weird facts about Buddhism no one talks about!

[Patrick33]

It's the prayer wheels that get me. I've been to a number of places dominated by the Buddhism. Often in mountainous regions, there are some beautiful, colourful temples with loads of prayer wheels - some big, some small - in public areas. It's aesthetically pleasing, but, there are then countless people, usually old, sitting for hours and hours, day after day according to various guides we've had, simply turning a wheel. The more times the wheel turns, the greater their reward in the afterlife!
I mean, for Christ's sake...

[curiosne]

From what I've been told here are the levels that are mentioned by Buddha:
1)  Seven dimensions of heaven above the human plane. The higher up the level you go here, the more content/blissful your existence. You cannot gain enlightenment (hence reach Nirvana) while existing in these dimensions as your worldly attachments are strong. 
2) Human Plane. At this level we are able to severe all worldly attachments (eg pleasure, love, etc) and gain enlightenment. 
3) Animal level. 
4) Ghostly realm (yes Buddhists believe being reincarnated as a ghost). This realm is meant to be horrific. 
5) Lowest level is Hell and unimaginable torment (I'm still scared when thinking about this even though I don't believe in this anymore).

^^^^^ Like I said, anyone buying the idea that Buddhism is superstition free, here is your evidence it is not.

Asia and Japan's Buddhists have their own ideas of spirits and afterlife too.

The truth is that worldwide MOST humans buy some sort of spirit divine world and some version of continuing on after death.

As another background into Buddhism, Gautama said that successive Buddha's will be (and has been) born as each world dies who will give us knowledge of how to to meditate and live life (called the Dharma) to save us from Samsara (endless reincarnation).

So Buddhism sprouted in 500 BC, in the bronze age. People were incredibly superstitious back as they hadn't developed the scientific process yet which is why humans tried to explain away the mysteries of life through superstition and it continues to this day.

So here's something else I don't get about Buddhism - Why was he born in 500 BC at a time when we hadn't developed our scientific process yet? I mean c'mon it sounds like a Buddha's been born countless times already on different worlds, surely he would've got the timing right by now so that we could've properly assessed his claims when we'd gathered enough knowledge about the world?

---

It's the prayer wheels that get me. I've been to a number of places dominated by the Buddhism. Often in mountainous regions, there are some beautiful, colourful temples with loads of prayer wheels - some big, some small - in public areas. It's aesthetically pleasing, but, there are then countless people, usually old, sitting for hours and hours, day after day according to various guides we've had, simply turning a wheel. The more times the wheel turns, the greater their reward in the afterlife!
I mean, for Christ's sake...

Yeah, I can't stop myself from rolling my eyes when I see stuff like that. For one, Buddha didn't tell them they had to do that, he only told them to meditate so where the hell did the tradition of turning the wheel come from?

And two, they cannot think critically out of their crazy customs. I know at times a lot of these people are uneducated and religion is all they have but there's got to be a way to stop crazy behaviour from being handed down through successive generations.

Also I've been told that I'm disrespectful when I say these kind of things but I don't think I have to be respectful of crazy beliefs and traditions. I am respectful of people just not their beliefs.

[chorlton]

^^^^^ Like I said, anyone buying the idea that Buddhism is superstition free, here is your evidence it is not.

Asia and Japan's Buddhists have their own ideas of spirits and afterlife too.

The truth is that worldwide MOST humans buy some sort of spirit divine world and some version of continuing on after death.

As another background into Buddhism, Gautama said that successive Buddha's will be (and has been) born as each world dies who will give us knowledge of how to to meditate and live life (called the Dharma) to save us from Samsara (endless reincarnation).

So Buddhism sprouted in 500 BC, in the bronze age. People were incredibly superstitious back as they hadn't developed the scientific process yet which is why humans tried to explain away the mysteries of life through superstition and it continues to this day.

So here's something else I don't get about Buddhism - Why was he born in 500 BC at a time when we hadn't developed our scientific process yet? I mean c'mon it sounds like a Buddha's been born countless times already on different worlds, surely he would've got the timing right by now so that we could've properly assessed his claims when we'd gathered enough knowledge about the world?

---

It's the prayer wheels that get me. I've been to a number of places dominated by the Buddhism. Often in mountainous regions, there are some beautiful, colourful temples with loads of prayer wheels - some big, some small - in public areas. It's aesthetically pleasing, but, there are then countless people, usually old, sitting for hours and hours, day after day according to various guides we've had, simply turning a wheel. The more times the wheel turns, the greater their reward in the afterlife!
I mean, for Christ's sake...

Yeah, I can't stop myself from rolling my eyes when I see stuff like that. For one, Buddha didn't tell them they had to do that, he only told them to meditate so where the hell did the tradition of turning the wheel come from?

And two, they cannot think critically out of their crazy customs. I know at times a lot of these people are uneducated and religion is all they have but there's got to be a way to stop crazy behaviour from being handed down through successive generations.

Also I've been told that I'm disrespectful when I say these kind of things but I don't think I have to be respectful of crazy beliefs and traditions. I am respectful of people just not their beliefs.

we are the way, the truth & the light.

in asia the evangelicals are buying them away from buddhism with free rice & the occasional medicine for a kid
actually better of leaving them alone rather than dragging them into the chrisTaliban caliphate of hate