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Re: Spending Time With Stephen Batchelor.
I don't think of @songhill as a troll, and I dislike that pejorative, but I respect the right of moderators to run a forum the way they feel is most beneficial to the most people. At the same time, I… (View Post)
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Re: Spending Time With Stephen Batchelor.
(Quote) But my issue with him is exactly that - his unkind words towards those who believe in rebirth. How can suggesting to new Buddhists that they are immediately to consider themselves members of … (View Post)
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Re: The lie of modern Buddhism
In case tone is getting lost in all this, I'm not anti-Stephen Batchelor (or any other writer). I do want to know why he takes what feels to me like an approach of scaring or guilting people into his… (View Post)1 -
Re: The lie of modern Buddhism
(Quote) But he says that I have "an extraordinary paucity of evidence" for my belief, and that my failure to summon forth the courage to risk a "nondogmatic" (anti-rebirth) stance… (View Post)1 -
Re: Spending Time With Stephen Batchelor.
Not all wrong views are created equal. I don't reject Batchelor's view on rebirth as wrong, only his pressure on others to accept it as right. Meaning, I believe in rebirth, but I'm fine if others do… (View Post)
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