About the guilt imposed by Christianity through original sin, where the blame falls on the woman who disobeyed God. If you are a Christian, you are innocently guilty, and your sin can only be payed out through faith in Christianity. It seems that theists use original sin to explain the difficulties, sorrows, and problems that people experience from birth.
Comparing this with Buddhist karma, one can conclude that the Buddhist explanation is much more logical and balanced, where a person is responsible for his own bad karma, inherited from previous life.
A logical question might arise: where did the first person come from according to the theory of karma? But here we again encounter the dichotomy/singularity (superposition) of the question with no answer who was first – a chicken or an egg.
P.S. Also, take into account the primitive magic of sacrificing Jesus to achieve something, like a ritual killing of a sheep to please god… this is just ordinary, third-rate magic.
I’m studying a social psychology course now, the psychology of groups… it says that group members tend to rate members of their own group higher than members of other groups.
I think the secret to success might be in rating yourself lower, not higher.
After studying religions of the world, Buddhism seems much more advanced than the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). The only thing I can’t understand is the Dalai Lama’s rebirths. For some unclear reason, it’s only men (never women), and they are born in one specific region, not all over the Earth… seems like nonsense.
Also, it’s unclear why the Buddha did not accept the immortality of the soul (with built-in memory for working off karma in the next life), but instead said the soul is like a flame passed from one candle to another. I don’t really get that – how does the memory from previous life preserve to the next one?
Consider a world where birth is mourned and death celebrated, cos life is suffering itself.
Paco Lafarga b.1977
P.S. You may ask who will take care of me when I’m old. Live and plan wisely and your money will take care of you much better and guaranteed than any child. I also want to add that even if I risk dying alone, my beautiful childfree life is worth it.
I asked AI how followers of Abrahamic religions (Old Testament, New Testament, Quran) explain the fact that if you count all those mentioned tribes and who gave birth to whom in the Bible, it results in only 6,000 years, while Earth is actually 4.5 billion years old. AI said, well… religious leaders say not to take the words in the Bible literally, that one day of creation could be equal to a million years… basically, making stuff up… I really hate the fact that when they dont allow women into leadership positions in religious institutions, they follow literal instructions in the Bible, citing the words of the Apostle Paul that women should remain silent in church (1 Cor. 14:34), but when you show them real nonsense and gaps in chronology, they say “you shouldn’t take everything literally”…
I’m reading Oscar Hartmann’s book Просто делай! Делай просто! (Do it Simply. Simply Do it). In it, he mentions a businessman who built his entire activity around copying other people’s businesses. And apparently, around 90% of his businesses go bankrupt, while the other 10% are a success and cover the losses of the failed ones with their profits. This businessman is also constantly yelling and rushing his staff. A nutcase on my mind. What’s interesting is what motivates someone like that. He is a some kind of killer shark or cancer cell. It’s comparable to such highly profitable but unsustainable businesses that selling cigarettes and alcohol, for example.
For some reason, since childhood, I believed that to achieve success, you had to create a unique idea of your own. But later, working in different companies, I realized that many just copy and don’t even hesitate to try to destroy the business they copied once they’ve done it. Like the law of the jungle and all that. It’s like when three pharmacies open in the same long, multi-entrance building next door to each other. It’s like that whole “red ocean” concept… you either have to dig into an already crowded field and start competing, or come up with a unique product – but then wealthier competitors can just copy it quickly and you get nothing.
So in the end, all that’s left is to rely on God’s will and the idea that you have developed your karma strong enough to get a positive result out of your activity. So… simply do it.
