tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2292960509733202658.post3765284996705282379..comments2024-01-27T11:15:31.605-08:00Comments on Rational Buddhism: Meme Theory, the Metameme and Buddhism - threat or opportunity?seanrobsvillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01135048988031819619noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2292960509733202658.post-42958991948415159372016-01-18T10:11:56.984-08:002016-01-18T10:11:56.984-08:00Most dangerous meme viruses are found in Hinduism ...Most dangerous meme viruses are found in Hinduism which are the creation of its brahmin priests to subjugate women and non-brahmins. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2292960509733202658.post-29852496687372849032015-03-12T10:40:49.965-07:002015-03-12T10:40:49.965-07:00I support this writer's views towards Abrahami...I support this writer's views towards Abrahamic faiths. We need to destroy the delusion of "Political Correctness".<br />Indonesian priest, Fr Daniel Byantoro, has written the following applicable words:<br /><br />For thousands of years my country (Indonesia) was a Hindu Buddhist kingdom. The last Hindu king was kind enough to give a tax exempt property for the first Muslim missionary to live and to preach his religion. Slowly the followers of the new religion were growing, and after they became so strong the kingdom was attacked, those who refused to become Muslims had to flee for their life to the neighboring island of Bali or to a high mountain of Tengger, where they have been able to keep their religion until now. Slowly from the Hindu Buddhist Kingdom, Indonesia became the largest Islamic country in the world. If there is any lesson to be learnt by Americans at all, the history of my country is worth pondering upon. We are not hate mongering, bigoted people; rather, we are freedom loving, democracy loving and human loving people. We just don’t want this freedom and democracy to be taken away from us by our ignorance and misguided ‘political correctness’, and the pretension of tolerance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2292960509733202658.post-49288608629740764542013-07-31T01:26:07.893-07:002013-07-31T01:26:07.893-07:00@ Anon
A Buddhist should show charity to all s...@ Anon<br /><br />A Buddhist should show charity to all <a href="http://rational-buddhism.blogspot.com/2012/02/buddhism-sentience-dukkha-evolution-and.html" rel="nofollow"> sentient beings.</a> She does not need to show charity to ideologies, which are collections of <a href="http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html" rel="nofollow"> mutually reinforcing memes</a>, often <a href="http://seanrobsville.blogspot.com/2009/10/three-poisons-of-mind-in-buddhism.html" rel="nofollow"> dangerously delusional </a> and frequently <a href="http://seanrobsville.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-buddhists-and-pagans-need-to-know.html" rel="nofollow"> the cause of great suffering. </a> <br /><br />Just because an ideology<a href="http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/sobieskey/2009/03192009.htm" rel="nofollow"> calls itself a religion doesn't mean it should be treated as such. </a> <br /> <br />It's been pointed out that if Hitler had been really smart, he would have <a href="http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2011/03/church-of-adolf-hitler.html" rel="nofollow"> marketed Nazism as a religion.</a> He would then have been able to refute all criticism by smearing his opponents as bigots and Naziphobes. <br /><br />When a totalitarian ideology <a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/04/07/meet-the-buddhist-defense-league-fighting-muslim-persecution-and-islamic-infiltration-of-their-countries/" rel="nofollow"> becomes an existential threat</a>, it may need to be resisted, even if it does label itself as a 'religion'.seanrobsvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01135048988031819619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2292960509733202658.post-79203264549455099102013-07-23T14:45:24.375-07:002013-07-23T14:45:24.375-07:00I like your blog. But you are much too uncharitabl...I like your blog. But you are much too uncharitable towards other religions than your own. This is unbecoming of a Buddhist, in my humble opinion, and it is highly hypocritical given the nature of Geshe Kelsang Gyatos books. <br /><br />I started listing the superstitions and unfounded beliefs in some of them here, but quickly discovered that this comment would become much too long between the omniscient Buddhas, the wish fulfilling jewels, the billions of years in agony in hell for killing an insect without purifying the karma, the inerrant scriptures that despite what scholars say were actually written by the Buddha in his time (I guess all the anachronisms and the modern language was prophetic in nature) and not to mention the whole system of merit and the horrible penalties for daring to criticize an enlightened teacher such as your founder...<br /><br />Were I to be as uncharitable towards Kadampa-Buddhism as you are towards other religions, I could easily interpret this clip as nearly perfectly portraying the local Kadampa-Center (except for the killing part):<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBK5aKOr2FwAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com