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    Buddhism

    Oh man the monkey mind is a problem and I know it so much! Monkey mind isn't the problem that stops you meditating though its the reason. Honestly the biggest problem is that people think that you have to stop thinking to start meditating, nothing is further from the truth. You will...
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    Does the Quran promote peaceful values? (I claim it does not.)

    Ah the Hadiths, the Qu'ran and the no true scots man. If you accept hadiths then how do we know what is true and what is not. For if we accept one hadith why not accept them all and if we do well...can of worms: “No society will witness prosperity if commanded by a woman”. . ...
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    Rape Culture is Real

    Well done now we can dismiss your opinion as being amusing if worthless. What's next?
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    Buddhism

    Wow where to start. Took me 5 years to start meditating if it helps. Have you got a place you could make just for mleditation? That would be good. Set up a little cushion and a little table with a singe candle in a plain stand. If you can't spend any money to set this up (and why should...
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    Path you follow to enlightenment

    Introspection. Meditation or thought, they both get you there, its taken years to see the right path (the noble path) gets you there quicker. Honestly I believe I could take you convincingly down a path that becomes nihilism logically, its a thin line between seeing the right path and taking...
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    Was Muhammad a good man?

    He was adequate for his time. But necessarily to succeed he was a product of his time and a warlord and all of the other things he was which means his morality can not be our morality for the modern age.
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    Fundamentalist Atheists

    Answers cannot be based on a never known. You just proposed Pascals wager (well done I'm sure) but it dies thanks to its own admitted irrelevance.
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    Rape Culture is Real

    This topic really disturbs me as I know rape culture is real and I know there is an extreme case of overcompensation resulting in police brutality and prosecution of innocent men and abuse in judicial proceedings resulting in extreme misandry and it also does nothing to prevent the rape culture...
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    Why exactly does realization of Anatta/Impermanence lead to the cessation of suffering?

    OK can't post links yet - Towards a buddhist psycotherapy provides a useful analytical summarisation of why buddhism works in both existential and psychological terms.
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    Why exactly does realization of Anatta/Impermanence lead to the cessation of suffering?

    Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy
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    Buddhism

    5 minutes a day sat doing nothing.
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    Fundamentalist Atheists

    Several...well certainly less than there used to be historically. A lot less and shrinking. But an argument from authority really isn't convincing no matter which side it leans upon (but if you were interested firmly on the atheist side, still proves nothing). To be honest I'd be more...
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    How to stop all thoughts for good.

    I agree atheism is lack of belief in one particular idea, it has no positive connotations or attachments to any other ideas. Atheists are not a homogeneous group.
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    Buddhist Literature

    OK. Super busy until a week Monday, I'll PM it then. What I want to say will take an hour or so of concentration I simply won't have (energy or concentration) so I'll be back then. I don't write or think fast about this stuff :/
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    How to stop all thoughts for good.

    That is something someone can only really tell you after doing 5 minutes a day and then seeing if he wants to do more. Maybe he does not or maybe he finds a purpose, up to him I think. Do we know what we really think without a little meditation? Not sure, up to the person. Not deliberately...
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    Buddhist Literature

    Long reply pending.
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    Reconciling Science and Religion

    Science is what it is. The reason anyone could come to a conclusion that a conceptual construct could be at war with another is that the practice of it consistently forces religion into smaller boxes and tighter corners. So the impression of a conflict is born. But a conflict implies two...
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    Buddhism : Reasons why you should become vegetarian

    Oh dear I lost a reply. That was an interesting OP. In all my years of looking into Buddhism I can't say I've seen anything quite like it. Very accurate, almost like someone opened up the animals and started weighing souls, maybe they had digital scales to find such figures! I'm not sure...
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    Buddhist Literature

    I thought they both classified as refutation. You talk about the Tathagata being reborn but in that same passage remember what is undeclared by me as undeclared and contained within in that is a refusal to be drawn on daulism. Without affirmation of dualism you can not have a positive...
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    Buddhist Literature

    I would have to say I'm not convinced. If nothing else one of the things Buddhism is explicit about is not using the Buddha words as Dogma. This is good because we only have a vague idea of what Buddhism should be about as we have to remain skeptical about how much of the message survived...
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