Buddhists don't believe in "eternity", that would be considered an
extreme view. Buddhists follow the Middle Way, believing neither in the
extremes of eternalism or annihilationism. Buddhists ascribe to the view
of dependent origination - everything happens for a reason - and that
emptiness transcends opposite statements about existence.
On 12/11/2013 8:54 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/See what I mean about minds too small to conceive of eternity?
/*--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
>
> Oh Barry, how you really hate the human race. You are constantly
irritated and upset by how stupid everyone is and how different you
are from the rest of the blathering, naive masses. The mere idea that
you espouse of there having been no creation or creator and that those
who believe in such silliness are simply too pathetic to live is
giving me my first chuckle of the day. That is like saying the beer
you buy at your local bar had no creator, was not created, always
existed because by the time you get to your table and order it it just
magically appears from some back room. You weren't there to witness
the brewing, you didn't see who harvested the hops or who put it all
in a big vat or who bottled it but you are drinking it nevertheless at
that very moment just like you are living life at this very moment.
You weren't there at the beginning of that either just like you
weren't there for the brewing of the beer so what makes them
different? It is like anyone who believes in some higher force or,
horror of horrors, God makes them in some way simpletons. The
inability to conceive of creation before it existed or to somehow be
able to hold the possibility of a personal or even impersonal God in
one's imagination or heart is the sign, IMO, of a very stunted, very
poor man indeed. I don't need science or religion to tell me what is
what. My experiences on this planet and, perhaps, elsewhere have
allowed me glimpses of such a thing as a creator and what animates
that force.
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