the cliff's notes on buddhism by retard number one

i stumbled through and found myself at this little gathering my friend held keg of new castle and all. we relaxed mostly, played some bones, bullshitted outside.

i bullshitted with several characters who were less than admirable in intelligence. one who used the phrase "it is superficial to believe there are any good lessons in the holy books, because they are all written by men."

another who used the phrase "someone would have to be stupid to believe in a god. i think we all came from aliens."

i also satr through a garbled manifesto on the glories of science and how only it is real, despite changing its oppionions all the time, what is proven now is proven and nothing was ever proven before. that is of course, quantum physics does not count because it doesn't offer "proof" of things, so therefor it is not a science.

i should also point out the information via captain dumbass that "tibeten buddhism has no dogma, but zen buddhism does."

i asked him what that was based on. he said that he had read a few parts of a book by the dalia lama and it didn't include any dogma.

i asked him if he knew what zen buddhism was. he said "of course, it is the other branch of buddhism not counting tibeten. the dogmatic one."

lord genius has from now on been expelled from the realm of rational thought. i will no longer consider the things he says to have any value whatsoever as he has illustrated in multiple ways that they do not have any.

i have no problems with someone not knowing something. there are millions of things i no absolutely nothing about, but then, i don't pretend i know all about them. and i certainly wouldn't presume to understand three thousand years of faith by reading a passage in a book written by one of the holiest men of any faith anywhere. a book not written to buddhists, but to humanity.

so in truth, if you want to know about it, take anything he said and flip it opposite and you're at least closer to the answer.

it is not irrelevant to understand that buddhism has been around for almost seven hundred years longer than christianity and that's alot of time to get things misconstrued.

the main confusion being that buddhism was meant to be a religion. of course, christianity suffers the same delusion. christ would have laughed at you if you asked him if he was christian. he'd never heard the word. he was a jew. but more importantly, he was a man in love with god. and that is all one can ask of a spiritual belief system. that is all one can ask of a spiritual belief system.

2002-12-23 | 10:32 a.m.
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