Dancing David
Penultimate Amazing
You have yet to prove that the sceptics at the JREF are less scpetical of buddhism. The polls you have talken and the thread you have started would indicate otherwise.That is why I am dismayed with skeptics here who are into Buddhism in spite of their embrace of rational skepticism -- for there is also cultish skepticism whose adherents worship literally the cult heroes of skepticism and can't think for themselves, so that whereas their heroes have already abandoned some skeptical positions they still not properly informed continue to drum on now abandoned tenets.
So again you are just shooting out the straw. No evidence, no data. the threads and polls would indicate most scpetics here, including the buddhists do not believe in reincarnation.
How would you come to that conclusion when you haven't even read the eightfold path and can't cite what you have read of buddhism?Okay, Ryokan, you must have read a lot of Buddhism and presumably thought as much and even more than you have read; in fact there is only so much to read about Buddhism until very quickly you come to the conclusion that everything else is repetitious and unnecessary refurbishing of the main and essentially Buddhist beliefs and practices for the reinforcement of faithful but undiscerning disciples, of no further information to critics outside.
Gee the same thing can be said of physsics. Or just about anything.
In the precepts as espoused by the more recent schools, sex that is harmful is discouraged.Suppose you tell me what is the place of sex -- and no I am not talking gender -- in Buddhism? For me and I assume as for the rest of learned folks identified with the modernized West, sex is a device worked out by evolution to keep the species continuing on and on indefinitely, and with man erotic pleasure is the incentive.
Is that simple enough for you, sex that is harmful is discouraged.
Now with Potrezeebie! Sex with new and improved Potrezeebie that is harmful is discouraged.
Everything is allowed in buddhism, it is up to the individual how to best take care of themselves.Tell me from your knowledge of Buddhism, although you also as a believer exhibit the fancy for hide and seek with words just to keep up the pretense of rationality in Buddhism; I want to hear from you the perspective of sex in Buddhism that should go beyond such questions as whether free sex is allowed or not in Buddhism.
Unlike the unexplained Yrregism where one must conform to the wishes of the Master Yrreg!
There is no soul and that bothers you.
A dog vomits should it bark or barf?
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