In Reply to: Re: And room for Taurus on planet 2003-UB323 posted by Skeptic on September 04, 2006 at 00:42:20:
Oh---mumbo-jumbo; huh?
I see.
See ya later, monologue man.
OT2
PS
You can actually form an INFORMED opinion, if you want to look it all up. Maybe you could delight us all with an explanation of WHY you consider it such?
If your "reason" is dogmatic atheism, why don't we be honest enough to actually switch to that topic; whose point of view regards all religious and spiritual experiences as equally superstitious and equally meaningless?
Let's just be philosophically honest; shall we? Would you like to enlighten me with your OWN belief system, and its reasonings?
Yes, Chinese followed from Vedic.
A guy named Gautama Siddhartha abandoned his wife and four kids, and imposed acseticism and poverty on himself, and supposedly got "enlightened" to the idea that you could have an experience of "nothingness" called Nirvana. He forbad worship of himself, proclaiminmg all deities false (his background was Hinduism, and he got sick of THOUSANDS of deities!)Then he made up 8 rules for attaining that so-called emlightened state, all you had to do is basically meditate, while mooching off the rest of the population, and actually psych yourself into killing all of your desires themselvves, because (ding, ding, ding, ding!) eveything was REALLY an illusion ANYWAY--great joke; huh?
Oh, yeah--AND (get this!) no one could really tell WHO really WAS enlightened. They still supported the priest class with LOTS of money, lands, and power; though! Cool; huh? I know Berg would have approved!
Oh, yeah--people worshipped him ANYWAY, and got just as superstitious as the Hindus had been.
Anyway, ANOTHER guy named Bodidarma also went to China. These two influences casued the development of the main branches of Bhuddism; Hinayana, and Mahayana, and from there came Nichiren Shoshu, Zen and Shinto.
Oh, wait--you're not a historian; am I right? If you were, historical facts WOULD interest you.
'Later! ;-)