On Dec 7, 2007 2:01 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim wrote: > > I also want to be clear about another thing that often gets confused: > > Atheism is not "anti-religion". Atheism is a declaration that no > > supernatural God exists. > > So how about Buddhism? From Wiki: > > Buddhism is a set of teachings often described as a non-theistic > [1][2] religion[3] and a body of philosophies influenced by the > teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, known as Gautama Buddha.[4] To many, > however, Buddhism is not a religion, nor a philosophy or a set of > doctrines, but rather teachings to guide one to directly experiencing > reality.[5][6] > > Would you consider Buddhists religious? Thus drivers of atheism? >
I'm curious too. How does The Force fit in? Not the Jedi one, specifically, but that general deal? Hmm... I've got a whopper spooling for Rob on "America", which I should send if I'm going to... very R Rated (beverly hills cop type language:) mmm... later. :) I'll just finish with, well, I wish I could x'splain it better, but: When you're really open (atheist sounds closed- I used to claim agnostic, but I slant more gnostic these days- which brings me back to:) there is just, well, amazing stuff going on all around us. Being open is conductive to, um, I dunno, un-filtering it. If you can handle that. Guess even enlightenment ain't for everyone, if'n they don't want it. That's what my enlightened mind tells me, at least. =] Wiccans Rock! Kiss a Druid! Hug a Hopi! Taoism all The Way, baby! -- Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
