I’m not sure if Buddhism is particularly concerned with being nice
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Phen@lemmy.eco.br 23 hours ago
Buddhism’s “Life sucks? Be nice and die and you’ll get a better one” sucks but it’s still better than “you should be nice to others, but that’s too much to ask so go be as awful as you want and just regret it later and that’ll be fine”. But even that was better than whatever the fuck people are interpreting from religions these days.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
What the actual fuck are you talking about? Go educate yourself
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Excuse me, if you actually understand the path and believe the point is being “nice”, then why the fuck are you talking to me like that?
If you don’t understand the path, then why the fuck are you talking to me like that?
The eightfold path concerns “right” or “wise” or “virtuous” action… but what do those have to do with being “nice”?? Haven’t you heard that light and dark create one another?
Comment105@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Before Christianty it was also a lot of “killing people is just really fucking cool, actually”, which even as an atheist I still admit was worse.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Christianity was revolutionary for suggesting that we are all equal in the eyes of the divine and suggesting that you can be forgiven.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Not a relgious scholar, but which religion taught that people are not equal in the eyes of the divine?
I could believe the forgiveness thing maybe. Again, not a scholar.
ComfortablyDumb@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Then came the great religion of Arabian desert which made killing people cool again.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
The Spanish missions have entered the chat. They actually sent people back to Spain when they said “yo, maybe Jesus wouldn’t be cool with us enslaving and murdering the locals”.
Comment105@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
“Entered the chat” is a stupid phrase.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
Ok
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 22 hours ago
Yeah. Personally I don’t see life as being “sacred” or anything and I think people should ultimately be free to choose to end their own if they really want to (provided they also get good support for trying to deal with whatever leads to that choice) - but it kinda scares me that this “sanctity” that is attributed to life is the only thing stopping people from being casually OK with murder.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Perhaps it depends on your definition of sacred. Life is the only mechanism that we know of by which the universe understands itself. If you ascribe to free will, life is the only mechanism able to change the course of events that were initiated by the Big Bang. If you don’t ascribe to free will, then it is the only mechanism able to witness the course of events that were initiated by the Big Bang.
That seems like something worth preserving in large, even if an individual life should be ended for compassion or justice. A life doesn’t have to be sacred, but Life seems pretty sacred to me.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Agreed