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I wouldn't know, I've only witnessed the viewers reaction :sick:

I cannot find a witty retort :shrug:

As long as the path doesn't lead to Mecca we will be fine.

Similar but It feels more like ones mind is being sucked out of ones ar5e.

You must be visually aware of something dark light white noise? So you never get the feeling that your mind is being pulled up through your head? How do you determine that becoming wiser is not down to maturity and that you have to be a Buddhist to develop an understanding of as much as we can...

Well tell me of your experiences? Where do you go and what do you see?

You have a mild form of westernised Buddhism :) I would argue that you already knew where you were going wrong and you took responsibility for it. Maybe Buddhism gave you a kick up the backside because it teaches discipline. I don't have a problem with Buddhism because it doesn't insist on...

When I meditated that one time I was conscious of my mind being pulled out of my head and I pulled it back . I used to get the same feeling with sleep paralysis and always fought with it, but now when I get it I go with the flow and fall asleep. Meditation just puts your body into a sleeping...

A good chimpanzee knows a bad chimpanzee when they see one. Primates live in complex social structures and they need to work together to survive. They have their unwritten rules of what is right and wrong, they feel love and hate, joy and sadness, empathy etc. If they didn't do they would be...

I went to a meditating class with a couple of friends as a teenager and I had an out of body experience, my friends didn't. I thought it was interesting but I have also had the same experience when falling asleep or waking up with sleep paralysis. It feels like your mind is being sucked out of...

I agree. That article was just an argumentation that was inspired in memory of Hitchens. That said by murdering Buddhist monks and destroying of temples is still inspired by religion even if it is just a hate for it. Most people in history who take others into battle have some deluded self...

I haven't got a problem with Buddhists it was just an afterthought on the basis of the Tiger Temple which to me is a contradiction to their belief system. Drugging tigers so tourists can walk with them on a lead for a photo is absurd. Meditation is fine but in reality is probably no more...

If you are alluding to the Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler argument some say it's a fallacy. https://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/the-atheist-atrocities-fallacy-hitler-stalin-pol-pot-in-memory-of-christopher-hitchens/ I think it is handy for the cannon fodder to believe in God as...

Religion can psychologically damage people if in the wrong hands, which historically it has. Americans are well known for being duped into faith healing conventions and the minister will preach with a smile from the Devil. I don’t ever hear any “moderate Christians” or even the Pope condemning...

The Abrahamic religions have historically caused more problems than they have solved though. I cannot speak for other religions but even Buddhism relies on the tiger trade and handouts from people who have to work for a living.

It's a controversial organisation that takes advantage of peoples psychological state of mind and financial position.

It's not about embracing his teachings, it's about recognising the important ones. To love one another, to love your neighbor as yourself, to forgive your enemies, do unto others etc. It's not about praying or worshipping him, it's just seeing him like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Mandela, a...

I'm atheist and I don't have a problem with Jesus as a man, and what he tried to change. He wanted to abandon the vengeful laws of the Jews. The core of his teaching was a "new commandment" to love one another, to love your neighbor as yourself, to forgive your enemies, etc. I don't have a...

A God or God's doesn't really matter, you understood my point. There is plently of evidence to say that he probably existed, to the point there is no point in denying it.

You are not looking at this right. These were people of the time when everyone believed in God, and Jesus was a wise friend who they believed had a connection with God. All or most of his apostles died a horrible death for basically teaching what Jesus taught, and 12 people wouldn’t make up a...