Perhaps after a good night’s rest, or at least what you potentially deceive yourself into believing is a good night’s rest because it helps you substantiate your belief that you actually exist, you’ll have the energy to continue. Otherwise:
I declare victory over Turd.
PS - Sorry to have misspelled Fergeson previously, although it really is your fault given the fact that it is likely that I am just a figment of your imagination.
Well, I wouldn’t jump out a window because gravity is God hugging you and if you are too far away from God for him to feel you then he hugs you too hard and you die. God is very strong.
I haven’t paid any attention to more than four words on this page…something about being able to verify stuff. So, this is neither here nor there, just an interest aspect of quantum mechanics. Extremely simply put, if you’re not directly observing something it’s entirely likely it’s not there. This works best on sub-atomic particles. Buildings are probably still there. Maybe.
in other words, the wave function of your theological discussion exists in multiple simultaneous states of Turd winning over higgmond and higgmond winning over Turd, and only if we open the thread to read it further, which is unlikely, does the wave function collape into a single definitive outcome.
Defining the word religious is tricky. But almost all definitions, I wouldn’t fit in. I’m not into dogma, mysterious forces controlling things (God, Illuminati, whatever), or the like. But if you put me on some sort of quantative scale for Buddhist practices, I’d score pretty high in terms of adherence (I think higher than most Christians when judged by what their book/God says to do). I’m most definetly an athiest and that eliminates a lot of definitions of ‘religious’
i saw what you did there. not bad. so the single event of Turd winning exists but only because you opened the thread and witnessed the whoopin i put on him.
I take everything in context. Buddha was in India and of course everyone thought reincarnation was what was going on. And it’s basically “You keep getting reborn and suffering until you figure it out” and Buddhist say that rebiirth ceases once that happens. I think this mentality is probably beneficial to achieve the mental states sought in Buddhism, but really think it was just an explanation that not everyone is (as easily) predisposed to achieving this mental state or even attempting. There are nature/nurture influences that help/hurt your ability to pursue those Buddhist mental states – but then realizing you were born more ‘able’ is a bad thought and would hinder actually achieving it. So I think its probably a useful concept despite not being true. I think changing the belief along with science (like the Dali Lama had to do about the moon generating light) may be the solution for me (This is what the movie Avatar emphasized).
TL;DR. Buddha was too nice to tell people most wouldn’t succeed, so he gave them multiple lives to try since the culture already believed in reincarnation.