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Meanwhile the Buddhists are unattached about being left out of the survey. They don't mind.

• goldenkey 5y ago
  Buddhism isn't a religion insomuch as it is a philosphy.
  • forum_ghost 5y ago
    it most certainly is an actual religion/theology and a rather dark one, too. e.g. "your life sucks today for reasons beyond your control? well, you must've deserved it in the previous life, scumbag"
    • goldenkey 5y ago
      That's something you'd get from Buddhism for Dummies if you just assumed Reincarnation and Karma were simplistic concepts with only one definition. The reality is that these are metaphysical concepts and Buddhism is often conveyed via metaphor or analogy. Your interpretation is a rather naive one, and "deserve" is a loaded word.
  • neonate 5y ago
    Reading Mahasi Sayadaw on the hell realms cured me of that idea.
  • sofixa 5y ago
    That's what i thought too, before visiting a majority Buddhist country and i was shocked at the lavish temples, the amount of temples, full sized and miniature versions everywhere, the amount of clerics, the indoctrination of children ( they start the journey to be a monk at a very young age, iirc 8), how much it seemed to matter to the locals ( stuff like people stopping to pray at a mini-temple before a journey, buses being lavishly decorated with religious symbols, etc), including their donations "for good luck" while the country was on the verge of bankruptcy and going through an economic decline. Funnily, in a majority Christian city in the same country everything was the same, just directed at a different diety.