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many atheists are budhists.What do you think of the Budhist idea that god is a egoless creative force. ??:D
 
I don't believe in any gods.

Therefore, I think the idea is another load of tripe posing as something significant.

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What are you asking, idunno?

I'm a little confused by the OP.

You introduce the notion that many atheists are Buddhists (are they?), but then you ask about a particular take on God. What is the connection? Those seem like separate issues, but maybe I'm missing something.

Perhaps I'm confused because I didn't think that that was how Buddhists see God, but I'd be happy to be corrected. I'm certainly no religious scholar.
 
Katana said:
What are you asking, idunno?

I'm a little confused by the OP.

You introduce the notion that many atheists are Buddhists (are they?), but then you ask about a particular take on God. What is the connection? Those seem like separate issues, but maybe I'm missing something.

Perhaps I'm confused because I didn't think that that was how Buddhists see God, but I'd be happy to be corrected. I'm certainly no religious scholar.
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thers a new book by a portuguese journalist jose dos santos.Its called «the formula of god».Unfortunately is not coming out in the US not soon anyways. But it seems to be the old story of Quantum Physics having anything to do withe Taoist and Budist belief in god, like in the Tao of physics by Capra. What do you think about Capra`s comparisons of Quantum and Taoism?:)
 
idunno said:
many atheists are budhists.What do you think of the Budhist idea that god is a egoless creative force. ??:D
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The obvious conclusion from that is: god=the universe

I have no problem with that idea.

Hans
 
Katana said:
You introduce the notion that many atheists are Buddhists (are they?), but then you ask about a particular take on God. What is the connection? Those seem like separate issues, but maybe I'm missing something.
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Since buddhists are technically atheists, and there are many buddhists, I suppose it follows that many atheists are buddhists. Still, I agree it's a rather odd way to put it. In the general use of the term atheist, it refers to a non-religious person, and that definition does not include buddhists.

Hans
 
An egoless, creative force is nevertheless a god, and any Buddhists who believed in this would not be athiests, regardless of whether it was a tenet of Buddhism or not.

As for what I'd think of such a thing, were it to be real, I would concluded it is at best a clumsy thing for creating a world where people could experience such suffering (at best) and more likely it is highly immoral for doing so, either knowing what would happen, or allowing it to continue once it saw that it did happen, should it not have been predicted.

Any scientist who created such a universe would be honor bound to stop the experiment long before this point, or at least pause it to find solutions.
 
idunno said:
thers a new book by a portuguese journalist jose dos santos.Its called «the formula of god».Unfortunately is not coming out in the US not soon anyways. But it seems to be the old story of Quantum Physics having anything to do withe Taoist and Budist belief in god, like in the Tao of physics by Capra. What do you think about Capra`s comparisons of Quantum and Taoism?:)
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That is probably best answered by someone more knowledgeable than I.

What do you think?
 
Which sect of Buddhism? Classic Taoism or neo-Taoism? Buddhism as practiced in which country? The OP is too broad to answer easily.

By the way, "The Tao of Physics" was a giant bunch of doo-doo. Knowing a bit about QM and Taoism, I couldn't make it past the first chapter. I can't remember any details (this was maybe 10 years ago), and I have no interest in going back and trying again.
 
idunno said:
many atheists are budhists.What do you think of the Budhist idea that god is a egoless creative force. ??:D
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I'd say that such a thing should not be translated into English as "God". And also that I don't think such a thing exists.
 
idunno said:
What do you think about Capra`s comparisons of Quantum and Taoism?
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He got them both wrong. His comparisons are ill-founded, baseless, and largely meaingless.

(Yeah, I know. "Don't hold back; tell us what you REALLY think." Unfortunately, that silly rule 8 prevents a detailed characterization of Capra's work....)
 
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