First, to Craig Browning. No appy polly loggies needed between us, as your prof said, “If you aren't pissing someone off, you're doing it wrong."
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How on earth do you come up with that?
Okay. I'll plead that the twelve step program is a metaphor
As for my statements that Buddhism is premised on all being sorrow and Xianity being based on the premise that the world is unredeemable, I came by these opinions experientially.
When I was a Buddhist (albeit one who was agnostic about reincarnation) I had accepted the premise logically as expressing an aspect of experience. Then Robert Anton Wilson convinced me that “all was joy” was “equally true, equally false, and equally useful” as Tiberius said of religion (another metaphor)
When I was A Christian, I accepted explicitly that only Christ could save us, until YHWH told me I was going to hell anyway, so, as far as Pascal's wager went, I could no longer see any percentage in deforming my sense of right in order to hate fags, for example.
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Correspondences between Buddhism and Xianity.
Two hypotheses about how this could be so.
1.It is demonstrated that Jesus is a Rorschach in which people can see what they wish.
2.Maybe Yeshua and Siddhartha were looking at the same thing.
Re: The rest we seem to agree on, especially that “we are here to FUNCTION at the highest possible level we can personally and communally muster... that's life... and more important, LIVING!” Unfortunately I am chemically predisposed to believe that all is sorrow and we are bloody mud. It can get gloomy in this skull sometimes. I am definitely a sinner. I found out I was Jewish by Jewish law, and I celebrated by having a ham and cheese without even thinking. Show me a senseless taboo and I'll break it.
To Scecop, I find NDEs disturbing because they imply that the thing I called YHWH wasn't just a hallucination, and really can send me to Hell,. I admit, statiscally I am more likely to go to Hell for offending the Pope, but that's a given, and I've never met the Pope, I have met my friend YHWH and his Baptist brat Jesus, but I am taking my medicines now.
You don't have to tell me about Xianity being fascist. I knew that before I decided it was true anyway. (But, again, I am taking my medicines now.)
Buddhism is my favorite philosophy posing as a religion, because it recognizes theistic questions are not its subject.
Have you read Wilhelm Reich? That's one take on Yeshua. Personally I think he was closer to David Koresh. Who would Jesus bomb? Probably Rome, and teach the pedophile hypocrites a lesson for taking his name in vain, but I wouldn't want to be in Salt Lake City, or New York, or the Pentagon, or even Jerusalem. Mecca is probably safe. Unless Yeshua is(was) so crazy he thinks(thought) he was YHWH, and, having met Him, it wouldn't surprise me (Medicines, medicines)
Thanks again, all. “If you aren't pissing someone off, you're doing it wrong."
Twain ShakespeareStatistics: Posted by Twain Shakespeare — 29 Jul 2010, 10:04
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