To the stealth people of faith at FFI:
Faith Freedom International is infested with people of Faith on Hinduism, Free Will, Buddhism and Christianity. Each one hoping to bring Ex-Muslims to their camp.
I say become a Free Thinker.
These folks are ignorant of neuroscience and logic.
Read Sam Harris upcoming book on these topics if you want to evolve beyond primitive religion like Hinduism and Buddhism.
I say become a Free Thinker.
Apply only reason, logic, science. This in effect covers everything under the Sun. Hear it loud and clear, we will not accept any of your faithful nonsense without scientific inquiry, reasoning, logic, questioning.
moderator:snip... Cat doesn't want to talk about his faith on reincarnation.
MBL dumb ass doesn't want to bring up his faith on at least some aspects of Buddhism.
Several dirty Hindus are at FFI these days.
Buddha was probably one of the smarter person of his time but from today's standard he was a dumb ass.
Although Buddhism is one of the better religion but it has its own stupidity, started right from Buddha. Buddha believed and preached Karma and reincarnation - height of stupidity.
moderator:snip... ]
Exposing stupidity of Buddhism:
http://enjoymentland.com/2009/03/15/my- ... le-truths/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Meditation has some limited value such as calming oneself down, temporarily lowering one's blood pressure etc.
But it doesn't enhances wisdom, understanding about the world we live in, nor increases your IQ, nor increases the logical connections in your brain. To have better understanding of life and the real world one has to read, debate, lab experiments, do mathematics, reason, apply logic, and intense thinking. Meditation doesn't get you there.
The Cat's OCR (Observer created reality) is not a reality at all. Nor MBL's illusion on Free Will gives him or anyone any free will - this includes De Mello and Buddha.
These people of various faith are too quick to criticise Islam but don't wan't take a peek into their own faith. These are half-baked, baby atheist like. FFI is now infested with fraudulent, deceptive people who initially portray themselves as free thinker but they are in fact, stealth believers.
Read this and evolve your mind
http://www.samharris.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Is Buddhism a religion.
http://fora.tv/2010/03/19/Stephen_Batch ... ullprogram" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Debunking Buddhism. [No mention of Hinduism because Hinduism is one of the most primitive and stupid religion of all.]
http://www.theabsolute.net/tv/?p=380" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Buddhists-94 ... ment-1.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://brainmeta.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18467" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum ... cepts/4069" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Sara says:
June 28th, 2010 at 1:37 am
I really appreciate this article. I used to think Buddhism was different from religion, and ‘just a philosophy’ and a positive one, until my best friend got sucked into a Buddhist cult that derailed his career right after getting his PHD. Then I started studying it, and decided to take the plunge and actually try to practice it. Then I realized it was just more supernatural magic baloney. Not to mention misogynistic, nihilistic, and soul-destroying. Buddhists are obscurantists who make claims to knowledge they can’t back up rationally. When you call them on their irrationality, they start to question the validity of enlightenment values. It’s seriously damaging woo, like every other religion.