/lit/ - Literature

>>23008021
>”after a century of highest technology and neuroscience there are still masses of "intellectuals" who believe mystic bullshit Hume negated 300 years ago.”

>>20263460
>Dawkins put belief on a scale of 1-7 and said he was only a 6! Do you not understand that this means he's a critical thinker! Stop opposing him!
You're retarded.

>>20246474
>>20247634
>muh scientific method
read Hume

>>20237929
Read Guenon before you end up like pic related

Buddhist exceptionalism frames the science-religion dialogue from the Buddhist side as well. Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, in his Mind and Life Institute Dialogues with scientists and philosophers, often says that there is a a Buddhist science and that Buddhism is more than a religion. It is a science of the mind.

As historians know, the Dalai Lama is repeating a move that goes back to the nineteenth century. 8 Christian missionaries in Asia had proclaimed the superiority of Christianity because it possessed science and advanced technology. European colonizers had given the same reason for the superiority of European civilization altogether. But Asian Buddhist intellectuals and reformers figured out how to turn the argument around. They countered that Buddhism is the truly scientific religion. These innovative Buddhists downplayed ritual, devotion, and beliefs and practices that Europeans thought were superstitious. They declared that Buddhism has no creator God (even though it has an elaborate array of celestial deities and acknowledges local gods and spirits); that Buddhism relies on reason and personal insight, not faith (even though it has many objects of faith and devotion); and that the Buddha was a human being, not divine (even though he is believed to have a supramundane nature). Indeed, these Buddhists argued, Buddhism is not so much a religion as a science of the mind.

Historians call this modern reformulation of Buddhism 'Buddhist modernism'. It minimizes the metaphysical and ritual elements of traditional Asian Buddhism, while emphasizing scientific rationality together with personal meditative experience. Buddhist modernism presents itself as if it were Buddhism's original and essential core. But, in fact, it's historically recent.

>>19531217

>>19531501
>stick your childish memes up your ass faggot

>>19470888
C H E C K E D.

>>19274259
I'm a young NEET who rarely leaves the house and they're still trying to get me to take the vaccine. My boomer neighbor is also at my back and thinks I'm going to spread it to her somehow

You have to be the spiritual equivalent of pic-related to seriously believe in evolution as being a justifiable view.

>>19209729
>be ancient shepherds looking up at the night's sky
>"what do you think the moon is, Xenophon?"
>"it's a goddess I suppose.. or perhaps it's a strange fairy kingdom. I've heard merchants say something about a giant rabbit on the moon too"
>suddenly there's a puff of smoke and a time traveling science man appears
>"acktually its just a fucking rock"

>>19153221
>Have you thought of doing stand-up comedy?

>>19110848
>had had

>>19091033
>tfw Jesus is a literal condescending faggot who wants to condemn people into eternal suffering if they don't bow down and follow his example

>>19089109
>it is more likely that Christ was a historicized mythical figure, than that he was a genuine historical figure.

>>18871680
To sign govt papers in America that classify the races is done after 1914 when the Boazians pretended to be racist up until the 1960's Civil Rights and EEOC acts when they imported all the monkeys from the third world. You sign BLACK, WHITE, HISPANIC, AMERINDIAN, ASIAN, PACIFIC ISLANDER/OTHER. These categories are shite. Cue the lefty professors now demonstrating that these shit cateogories are shit to introduce full racial and cultural blindness. All nurture! Pretend you believe or else! To participate in the economy you had to explicitly deny and denounce your heritage and never question the heritage of others. "You can build your own heritage here and now!" The Charlie Kirks sold us another lie.
Americans were then chastised for chatting about their heritage at every work hour and commerce became more intrusive when people got fired from accusations spied on their own personal time out work. Now people are fired neurotically for no rhyme or reason but commisar heuristic and budget whims or just for the lulz.

>>18754496
>audiobook collection

What books stand up for science, so to speak, after the attacks by Kuhn and Feyerabend?

>>18571151
>I don't think you know what a "proof" is.

>>18533243
>refugees
>neo-nazi
>Merkel
>quantum physics

>>18361163
Why yes, I do love science. Scientific discoveries benefit humanity, organised religion facilitates pedophilia.

>>17905211
This.
To understand that language is limited and God logically is not bound by it should be common sense by now. But that's too much to expect from atheist redditors.

>He said hylic? what a pseud!