Current Events > Buddism seems like a very negative religion. Very negative.

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Xethuminra posted...

*makes a gamblers fallacy*

Better to risk reigning in theoretical heaven than rotting in the fires of a hypothetical hell, is it not?

Depends on probability? As the odds of rotting in hell increases (different religions saying only *they* are valid) you approach zero...

Ricemills posted...

I'm still baffled on how different Americans and Asians view on Buddhism.

Well you kinda have to be exposed to asian Bhuddism to realize it is just the old religions practicing before with Bhudda added in. As in, the old pantheons are now part of Bhuddism.

These Americans read about it in a book and hear it is just an ideal Bhudda came up with to live a happy life. But in the actual countries they believe stuff like if you don't eat all your rice the king of hell will force you to be a bird and eat as many worms as you failed to eat grains of rice.

Do you believe a God would or should take into account the feelings of the individual during judgement?

Whether they feel guilty

Whether they feel righteous

Xethuminra posted...

Do you believe a God would or should take into account the feelings of the individual during judgement?

Whether they feel guilty

Whether they feel righteous

No.
Many evil people felt righteous in their acts.

Interesting.

Should God feel guilty?

TheSavageDragon posted...

What is religion, Alex?

IIT, it's a subject of counter arguments and that's about it. Could careless about it.

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Sunhawk posted...

Life is suffering. When you die, you usually just get reborn into another life of suffering, sometimes even worse. Activities you enjoy doing are shallow and pointless, and distract from "important" spiritual things. Even a higher tier of life, like the demi-god realm, has quite a lot of suffering.

Wtf. Explain this religion to me as a brief overview, that makes it look positive, or at least, less negative.

Buddhism gives you infinite attempts to get it right and achieve Nirvana.

All the Abrahamic religions give you one shot and you fuck it up to burn in hell forever.

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Xethuminra posted...

Do you believe a God would or should take into account the feelings of the individual during judgement?

Whether they feel guilty

Whether they feel righteous

Like at the point of judgement? No, its not reflective of the entirety of someones good or bad decision making skills. Some of the most broken people unfortunately pass with no relief in their life and God wont judge them on what they could not pull themselves out of as long as they put a solid effort to change or strive to make changes.


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Seems like a contradiction

Hasnt God changed His mind before? Does God make mistakes?

Xethuminra posted...

Seems like a contradiction

Hasnt God changed His mind before? Does God make mistakes?

A perfect plan comes with revisions, not mistakes

as far as whether or not hes changed his mind >_>

In what sort of scenario do you think God would change his mind? As far as I know he wouldnt.. according to the book anyway, I think he would have enough Wisdom to have an answer for everything but thats a question I have quite reconciled myself tbh

whats the contradiction part?

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RedJackson posted...

whats the contradiction part?

Utter condemnation regardless of the intent of an individual

For example, one who feels guilty for no good reason ~ and has wrongly condemned themselves in the name of false dogmas.

Hence, why the philosophers were relegated into Limbo when Dante organized Hell.

RedJackson posted...

Xethuminra posted...

A perfect plan comes with revisions, not mistakes

as far as whether or not hes changed his mind >_>

In what sort of scenario do you think God would change his mind? As far as I know he wouldnt.. according to the book anyway, I think he would have enough Wisdom to have an answer for everything but thats a question I have quite reconciled myself tbh

whats the contradiction part?

Remember when God wanted to destroy the Israelites at one point and Moses pleaded with him not to(of course afterwards they were still messing up and we have them dealing with the trek into the wilderness...)?

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