Matt, How so? Buddhism doesn't state that everything is meaningless.
Marsha On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Matt Kundert wrote: > > Well done. It should give Buddhists something to think about. > > Matt > >> The nihilism of the religious is often not recognized as such because >> it is often an optimistic sort of nihilism. The promise of the next >> world is thought to be the assurance of everything that one could ever >> think to hope for. But then, we know how that sort of thinking in the >> suicide bomber works out for the rest of us, so even optimistic >> nihilism can be something to be concerned about. Religious people who >> think that believing in God makes them immune to nihilism and the >> nihilism is part of "the atheism problem" should turn to the Bible and >> reread Ecclesiastes which has Solomon, son of David and renown for his >> wisdom, "Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is >> meaningless." Clearly even the Bible demonstrates that that nihilism >> is not just a problem for skeptics. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with > Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
