I always felt like Buddhism was more a philosophy than a religion. It can be used as a religion, but it really boils down to “Life sucks, but you can be happy if you stop thinking about how much life sucks”.
No offense but I don’t think you’ve read any of the texts or seen any Bhuddist practice if you think so. The corpus of texts that belong to the different traditions are massive and Bhuddists have everything from prayer to pilgrimage. It’s only not a religion if you ignore everything.
Not really. It’s more like: “Life sucks, and there is not much you can do about it. Accept this, and life with suck a bit less.”
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I remember asking my mother as a child how we knew we were right and her answer was “you have to have faith”. That was the beginning of the end for me. I started refusing to go to church when I was about 10 as I couldn’t fathom how we could just “believe” we were right. Plus how could god punish those who weren’t exposed to our church? It just didn’t make any logical sense to me at that age.
spiritually speaking they are correct… They just picked Nike brand instead of reality brand, so everything’s bullshit.
Faith is prayer. Asking is not.
Does it make more logical sense now? 🤔
To be fair, I wouldn’t lump Buddhism in with other theistic religions. Of course it can be, but a lot of schools avoid any form of theism. Plus, it’s almostvdefinitely the least arbitrary and hypocritical of the Big 5-7
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Sorry what “sciencey story” is a fart in the wind? Because I imagine either you don’t know what a hypothesis is or whatever example you have doesn’t actually follow the scientific method.
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So you disprove your own argument.
Sciencey story has weight because it has repeatable evidence. It has weight because it’s real.
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