Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)

Re:Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017) by babesh on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:54PM (#24088315)

Buddhism is a religion (along with many other religions) that allows a minority to brainwash a majority in order to exploit them. Those Buddhist temples don’t build themselves. You offer them afterlife or an end of suffering and in return they offer their independence of thought and action.

The concept of self is evolutionarily effective. For better or worse, so is the concept of us and them.

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Re:Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017) by bingobongo1 on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:56PM (#24088564)

It's not based on faith and has a rich history of academic development and logistical analysis by trained Nalanda scholars of 4th, 5th, and 6th century India.

Also there is a rich history of independent development and contemplative examination of the nature of reality, consciousness, and mind.

The western mindfulness genre is almost entirely made up of bits and pieces of Buddhist contemplative practice.

I don't expect to convince you that you don't know exactly what you're talking about.

Don't think for a second I'm surprised that most commenters here are pure material realists, part of the fun I guess.

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Re:Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017) by babesh on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:05PM (#24088364)

Many religions rely on the attraction of a truth to blind people to the robbery taking place. Looking solely at one truth blinds you to other truths.

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Re:Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017) by babesh on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:20PM (#24088412)

If the scientist isn’t concerned with going splat and doesn’t do something about it then he or she may not reproduce.

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