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  1. Tathagata

    Yogic Flying and Transcendental Meditation

    Does anyone know about Yogic Flying? I was just wondering because I am trying to research a phenomenon that I experienced as a child. Basically, I jumped off of a flight of stairs inside my house and floated down slowly as if hovering or going in slow-motion. I used to jump off the stairs all...
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    Reductionist Fallacy: Religious Delusions

    As someone who is generally opposed to religion philosophically and empirically, I really hate to reduce people's religious experience claims to hallucinations or delusions. It honestly doesn't seem like a valid response to these claims. In fact, I think this is laziness and incompetence on...
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    High Priest Exposes Religion: Speaks Bare Truth (Refreshing View on Christianity)

    High priest exposes religion but speaks the truth in this revealing interview. I feel that what he's saying should resonate with believers and nonbelievers alike. He's not some heathen priest, or an ex-Christian, or someone who just does it for money, nor is he a luke-warm Christian that...
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    The Tao is Not the Force of God's Will

    It has been claimed that the Tao is the force of Gods will. This is false. Even if asserted metaphorically it is false. To claim that the Tao is the force of God's will is to suggest that there is something that precedes the Tao and that the Tao is merely an act of the true ground of reality...
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    Christians and Atheists Overrun Other Diverse Religions Here?

    Given that this site is about religious diversity, Im surprised at the lack of religious diversity. It seems that despite the fact that Eastern and minority religions are well represented here, the only thing talked about or debated about is Christianity and Atheists opposing Christianity...
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    The Buddha Explains Universal Mind

    While it is blatantly the case that the Buddha is an Atheist (see here: http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/general-religious-debates/101720-buddha-not-silent-god-metaphysics.html), the Buddha still referenced what he called Universal Mind. It's a concept that is foreign to Theist, Deist...
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    Scripture IS Very Important In Buddhism

    It has been said by many here that scripture is not very important in Buddhism and seem puzzled by my tendencies to be a fundamentalist Bible-pusher, or in this case Pali Canon/Sutra pusher. I seem to be alone amongst Buddhists as well as other Dharmic religion adherents as none seem to be as...
  8. Tathagata

    Is It Good to Be Doctrinally Correct?

    I say for the most part, yes. I have noticed that many here seem to advocate a form of religion/spirituality that is not based firmly in doctrine and I have seen in some instances where adherence to doctrine is actually looked down upon. I will note however that I don't advocate a strict and...
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    Buddhism: Origins of the Universe, Creation, and Evolution

    Many people believe that the Buddha was agnostic about our cosmological origins or that he considered it an unanswerable question. This is false. The Buddha indeed had things to say about origins of life and the universe. He posited a cyclical universe inside of a Multiverse and that life...
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    The Buddha: Unique Among Other Major Religious Figures

    The Buddha is commonly grouped along with other religious figures in lists like this: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Moses, Krishna, Baha'u'llah, etc. However, the Buddha is much different than the rest and also superior. Most of those religious figures claim to either be prophets of God or...
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    Why Are There No Buddhist or Hindu Scripture Debates?

    And if there are, why are there so few and why are Bible/Quran debates much more frequent? The Buddhist Tipitaka is literally 50 times the size of the Bible, not to mention all the Mahayana Sutras. And I'm pretty sure the Vedas and Upanishads are clearly much more massive than the Quran...
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    Religious Pluralism is False: All Religions Can't Be True

    ANkJrynhEzo YouTube - How Can Christianity Be The One True Religion? Dr. William Lane Craig William Lane Craig outlines perfectly why all religions can't be true. Even if you rule out the less-established religions like Scientology and try to claim that all major religions are true as Bahai...
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    Disproof of God: Modified Argument from the Universe

    This is an original argument I have just constructed yesterday, it is a formal analytic disproof of God. It's actually a reformulation of an argument I created a year ago, but this one is radically different. Modified Argument from the Universe P1: If God exists, he is the creator of...
  14. Tathagata

    Here's Your Chance: Stump the Buddhist

    In the same vain as the other thread, feel free to ask any critiquing questions of Buddhism. I know there's bound to be some because everyone here who is not Buddhist believes Buddhism is false or at least reject some tenets. (If you believed Buddhism was true, you'd be a Buddhist.) Fire away. .
  15. Tathagata

    The Argument from Contingency

    I have seen many Atheists here who seem to have an unwarranted justification for their Atheism because their reasons for disbelief are actually flawed or countered by other sophisticated arguments from Theist apologists and philosophers. I will present one argument FOR God that I find to be...
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    Buddhism: the Only Religion That Hasn't Been Refuted?

    When it comes to the big 5 (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism), is Buddhism the only religion that hasn't been refuted (or perhaps "contended" is a better word)? It seems that whereas most religions are combating science and defending themselves against the scientific...
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    Why Can't We Accept Man as His Own Savior?

    It always seems that so many believers seek salvation outside themselves, given from saviors or deities when we have the ability to be a source of our own salvation. As Vernon Howard said: "We can accept God becoming man to save man, but we can never seem to accept man becoming God to save...
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    Is a Religion Defined By It's Founder and Scriptures Or By It's Followers?

    ReligiousTolerance defines religion as: "Religion is any specific system of belief about deity, often involving rituals, a code of ethics, a philosophy of life, and a worldview." (Notice it says "belief about deity" not "belief in deity." Basically, any belief either affirming or denying the...
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    Impersonal Concepts of God

    Can, what we consider an impersonal God, be considered a God at all? If it's not sentient, why call it God? God is a personification, so if it's just a "ground of being," "Ultimate Reality," or "the Absolute" then it's not personal. And if it's not personal, why pray to it? I find this to be a...
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    The Buddha Was NOT Silent On God and Metaphysics

    It seems that is has been discussed briefly before, but I want to clarify this once and for all. Many have claimed Buddha was Agnostic and some went so far as to say he was Theistic, with no scriptural evidence to back this up whatsoever. My position is that Buddha was Atheistic and in some...
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