Buddhism, the most intelligent religion?

[yrreg]

Warning: This thread is just an academic exercise. Smile.​

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Ryokan had brought to my attention a thread of mine in the Internet Infidels Discussion Board, which ultimately ended up closed by the powers that be in that forum of free inquiry, free thought, and free speech -- shame on them, hahaha.

So I told him* that to be fair to Buddhists and Buddhism, I will start a thread here on: "Buddhism, the most intelligent religion."

Well, folks, here it is, and to the manner of my thread in IIDB.

Buddhism, the most intelligent religion?​

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Among world religions with a history stretching for at least a thousand years, which is the most intelligent one?

If we consider achievements as in number of Nobel Prize winners, Olympic gold medals awardees, in advances of science and technology, in military prowess, economic muscles, arts, literature, the media and entertainment, the conclusion seems obvious.

And the winner is Buddhism.

Then we can also ask which is the most unintelligent religion?

What do you guys here say?

Please express your views in laboratory language and mood.


Yrreg aka Pachomius2000​

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*Reference to my arlier post in reply to Ryokan:

Title of post: Shoddy and dishonest scholarship.

Originally Posted by Ryokan
And for those that don't know Yrreg well, here's an interesting thread: Yrreg argues that Christianity is the most intelligent religion.​

Dear Ryokan:

I find your scholarship here most deplorable, for being a Buddhist trained to be right in thought and speech, you do just the same engage in partial and misleading representation of people who do criticize your fanatical or fundamentalist attachment to Buddhism, just to look as saying something true and objective.

You choose not to pay attention to the title of the thread of mine in the IIDB you bring up here to give just the appearance of even only partial truth, but by intention to mislead and misrepresent and thereby to fool the readers of this forum. Take notice of the question mark at the end of the title line of that thread of min in the IIDB; here, look below.

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=103865

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Originally Posted by Pachomius_aka_Yrreg
November 1, 2004, 05:09 AM #1935422 / #1
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[Title of thread:] Christianity, the most intelligent religion?

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Among world religions with a history stretching for at least a thousand years, which is the most intelligent one?

If we consider achievements as in number of Nobel Prize winners, Olympic gold medals awardees, in advances of science and technology, in military prowess, economic muscles, arts, literature, the media and entertainment, the conclusion seems obvious.

And the winner is Christianity.

Then we can also ask which is the most unintelligent religion.

What do you guys here say?

Please express your views in laboratory language and mood.

Pachomius2000

The saddest thing to happen to an academic for which I had given you the credit of being one, is to resort to shoddy and dishonest scholarship instead of critical meticulosity in representing the writings of other academics.

Tell me, if you still remember how Western academics of which Buddhists are not and never will be, for having already closeted their minds to accept someone like Gautama as being an enlightened agent, who never did anything of serious investigation except navel gazing into the fuzzy recesses of his cranium by meditation.

Tell me, namely, do you remember what the phrases: amicus curiae and advocatus diaboli mean?

Yrreg

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My words may not be soothing, but consider the ideas

The Buddhist non-self, and its implications, living the everyday non-self existence?
http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/ind...ost&pid=500486

[From the Kalama Sutra by Gautama]

01. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it long ago.
02. Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed down for many generations.
03. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
04. Do not confirm anything just because it agrees with your scriptures.
05. Do not foolishly make assumptions.
06. Do not abruptly draw conclusions by what you see and hear.
07. Do not be fooled by outward appearances.
08. Do not hold on tightly to any view or idea just because you are comfortable with it.
09. Do not accept as fact anything that you yourself find to be logical.
10. Do not be convinced of anything out of respect and deference to your spiritual teachers.
11. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.​

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reasons and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

See: http://www.buddhistinformation.com/the_kalama_sutra.htm

 

[Ausmerican]

C'mon yrreg tell the truth, did a Buddhist kid rochambeau you in the playground once and you never got over it?

 

[Dancing David]

I do not feel that religion has had much impact to science except to impede it. So I have no interest in this thread. two major religions destroyed the library at Alexandria, just to stifle competition.

So the track record can be rather poor. Some societal effects vary.

 

[yrreg]

I am a curious guy, and I count nothing alien to my curiosity.

I do not feel that religion has had much impact to science except to impede it. So I have no interest in this thread. two major religions destroyed the library at Alexandria, just to stifle competition.

So the track record can be rather poor. Some societal effects vary.

You know, I have this channel on cable TV where there is a regular feature program of foreigners studying in Beijing.

You will notice the Chinese in Beijing wearing the customary garbs of Westerners from Europe, the Americas, Australia, just like the students from these continents, even tuxedos for very solemn occasions where such fashion is de rigueur.

When you keep on watching this channel, CCTV -- is it the state TV of Communist China? you will oberve that in all public life and appearances the Chinese don't put on anymore their traditional couture, men and women go about in Western wears.

These are Chinese who used to be so xenophbic, thinking themselves to be the most advanced and civilized people of the earth, calling the country the Middle Kingdom, and now they have changed and are adopting by leaps and bounds Western governmental structures, civilization, and culture.

Now, here is the irony, while the peoples from the Far East are rushing like mad to adopt and adapt to the achievements in everything of the West, there are Westerners who give up home, marriage and family, and career, to become Bhikkhus in Burma, Thailand, and maybe Rinpoches in Tibet.

Meaning where everyone in the Far East is trying to capitalize on their eyes, ears, nose, tongue, fingers, to know about life and the universe as these organs are now the ultimate foundation of knowledge of reality and contact with reality; there are Westerners who have grown up trained in the skills and arts of using their eyes, ears, nose, tongue, fingers, but who want to take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, by closing their eyes to search into the empty halls of their cerebrum, thinking that they will find the purpose of life and the solution to their perplexities about existence inside those halls, which nowadays everyone knows that they are vacuous chambers unless and until you fill them up with the inputs from your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and fingers.

Yrreg

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My words may not be soothing, but consider the ideas

The Buddhist non-self, and its implications, living the everyday non-self existence?
http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/ind...ost&pid=500486

[From the Kalama Sutra by Gautama]

01. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it long ago.
02. Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed down for many generations.
03. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
04. Do not confirm anything just because it agrees with your scriptures.
05. Do not foolishly make assumptions.
06. Do not abruptly draw conclusions by what you see and hear.
07. Do not be fooled by outward appearances.
08. Do not hold on tightly to any view or idea just because you are comfortable with it.
09. Do not accept as fact anything that you yourself find to be logical.
10. Do not be convinced of anything out of respect and deference to your spiritual teachers.
11. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.​

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reasons and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

See: http://www.buddhistinformation.com/the_kalama_sutra.htm


Very interesting