speaking of the mega computer... I have asked, IF consciousness is all there is, IF MIND is all there is, if ENERGY is all there is, WHY do we meditate to SHUT ALL THERE IS UP? Are they suggesting to SHUT THE FUCKING computer programming up .. so we can actually hear our own selves instead of our programmed selves? WHERE ARE WE? I suggest we are in a simulation. a Holographic one.
I think the old fashioned name for computer programming is the monkey mind, and yeah, you seem to agree with some of the old Sanskrit dudes, basically.
Haha no! I do not agree with sanskrit dudes. Or maybe i do..I don't think it's mystical. I dont think of consciousness as being some unexplainable energy. Its very deliberate data built in to this system we find ourselves experiencing.
Buddhist raisedd people under 40 years of age today see their religion in much the same way we see Grimm's fairy tales, which is to say, less even than an Western atheist sees the controversial Bible stories.
"I have no idea whether people in majority Buddhist areas generally force their children to meditate, but it probably makes little difference"
They don't.
Modern Buddhist households are atheistic, and each generation takes ritual less seriously, to the point that moderns don't do it at all.
You might say it's the same in catholicism. The difference is that Buddhism doesn't have as heavy an indoctrination program or agenda. (I'm not saying it doesn't have one.)
I don’t know what to make of everything, and at this point, I don’t know that I need to do so. 13 was about my age of not going along with Catholicism, and I think my mom kind of felt like confirmation was the goalpost, after that, oh well.
I’m not Catholic, but I spend a far amount of time thinking about it. I was a CCD kid, from a mixed Catholic/Protestant family, probably at a time when the Church was trying to look as Protestant as possible. I had contact with a very limited number of rituals. Never learned the rosary, or about saints. The movie version of Catholicism looks way more interesting than what I remember, and I have an almost reflexive antipathy towards priests. I do have a sort of envy for people who have an ethnic connection to it (eg Irish, Polish, Italian Catholic) that goes back generations. It looks like a sense of belonging, which I tend to crave and reject at once.
I’ve noticed that a lot of people have ambiguous relationships to it as adults. I find the saints more interesting now, but have almost no comprehension of what Jesus means. Mary, on the other hand, draws my attention. It puzzles me.
I had a priest ruin a funeral when I was 13, so I was violently uninterested in religion for a long time. Then I got so sick, I wound up with nothing else to think about besides science fiction, and how on Earth do people acquire faith?
Basically when your reason gets cornered, I suppose. Depending on personality type, faith feels good. Many seem to ignore you don't need to choose between feeling good and being reasonable. You CAN have your cake and eat it too!
speaking of the mega computer... I have asked, IF consciousness is all there is, IF MIND is all there is, if ENERGY is all there is, WHY do we meditate to SHUT ALL THERE IS UP? Are they suggesting to SHUT THE FUCKING computer programming up .. so we can actually hear our own selves instead of our programmed selves? WHERE ARE WE? I suggest we are in a simulation. a Holographic one.
I think the old fashioned name for computer programming is the monkey mind, and yeah, you seem to agree with some of the old Sanskrit dudes, basically.
Haha no! I do not agree with sanskrit dudes. Or maybe i do..I don't think it's mystical. I dont think of consciousness as being some unexplainable energy. Its very deliberate data built in to this system we find ourselves experiencing.
Buddhist raisedd people under 40 years of age today see their religion in much the same way we see Grimm's fairy tales, which is to say, less even than an Western atheist sees the controversial Bible stories.
"I have no idea whether people in majority Buddhist areas generally force their children to meditate, but it probably makes little difference"
They don't.
Modern Buddhist households are atheistic, and each generation takes ritual less seriously, to the point that moderns don't do it at all.
You might say it's the same in catholicism. The difference is that Buddhism doesn't have as heavy an indoctrination program or agenda. (I'm not saying it doesn't have one.)
I don’t know what to make of everything, and at this point, I don’t know that I need to do so. 13 was about my age of not going along with Catholicism, and I think my mom kind of felt like confirmation was the goalpost, after that, oh well.
I’m not Catholic, but I spend a far amount of time thinking about it. I was a CCD kid, from a mixed Catholic/Protestant family, probably at a time when the Church was trying to look as Protestant as possible. I had contact with a very limited number of rituals. Never learned the rosary, or about saints. The movie version of Catholicism looks way more interesting than what I remember, and I have an almost reflexive antipathy towards priests. I do have a sort of envy for people who have an ethnic connection to it (eg Irish, Polish, Italian Catholic) that goes back generations. It looks like a sense of belonging, which I tend to crave and reject at once.
I’ve noticed that a lot of people have ambiguous relationships to it as adults. I find the saints more interesting now, but have almost no comprehension of what Jesus means. Mary, on the other hand, draws my attention. It puzzles me.
I had a priest ruin a funeral when I was 13, so I was violently uninterested in religion for a long time. Then I got so sick, I wound up with nothing else to think about besides science fiction, and how on Earth do people acquire faith?
Basically when your reason gets cornered, I suppose. Depending on personality type, faith feels good. Many seem to ignore you don't need to choose between feeling good and being reasonable. You CAN have your cake and eat it too!