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Toraldris· -`-,-{@ Zen Nud... Buddhist @}-,-`- ·Veteran
Secular Buddhism seems to be Naturalistic Buddhism, focusing on what's knowable about this life and putting speculation/claims to the side as unsubstantiated and quite possibly unknowable (i.e. liter… (View Post)
I didn't say little point in constraining ourselves in elements; I said little point in constraining ourselves to ancient understandings of what things are made of when we've come so much further in … (View Post)
"Element" has taken on another meaning in our time. Knowing what things are made of is an area we've excelled in. As far as Buddhism goes, we should focus on the cessation of suffering... t… (View Post)
Ptolemy had a system for explaining how the sun and planets moved in relation to (around) the Earth, and it worked... it was wrong and messy, but it was mathematically predictive and logically consis… (View Post)
@poptart That's kinda what I was thinking. There's no reason to suspect that it would be measuring objective truth, only physiological changes. (View Post)