For hippies, half-assed Buddhists and xenophiles of eastern thought
"Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with it's environment."
This quote was taken from my biochemistry text. You see, we are living creatures, we maintain order within ourselves at the expense of he world around us. Our orderliness merely increases the chaos of the universe in which we live (learn thermodynamics and especially entropy). If some dumbass wants to be at harmony with the world, he or she has sadly been misled, for that is beyond impossibility.
I'm tired of people listening to what somebody said two and a half millenia ago. Here's a hypothetical question for you: If you don't listen to Jesus, Mohammed, Abraham, or any combination of the three, why would you listen to Siddhartha? They all had some good ideas, but didn't really quite understnd what was going on. The Buddha really didn't know what he was talking about, and just because Buddhism has some vague correlations to modern physics doesn't mean that there is much credibility in what he said. Buddhism is entirely words, physics is entirely math; they are inherently different an should not be crossed. Go ahead, explain the number four in words, no math whatsoever, just words. Is it working? I didn't think so. How can the idea of what some guy said about suffering and the scientifically and mathematically defined concepts of force, energy and matter be linked?
Leave energy, force and matter to the physicists, leave the essence of life to the biochemists. Why listen to old, ignorant traditions? If the Buddha had known that his very thoughts were governed by ion concentrations and membrane potentials in his nerve cells, he'd have been less likely to have created another legion of misguided people.
This quote was taken from my biochemistry text. You see, we are living creatures, we maintain order within ourselves at the expense of he world around us. Our orderliness merely increases the chaos of the universe in which we live (learn thermodynamics and especially entropy). If some dumbass wants to be at harmony with the world, he or she has sadly been misled, for that is beyond impossibility.
I'm tired of people listening to what somebody said two and a half millenia ago. Here's a hypothetical question for you: If you don't listen to Jesus, Mohammed, Abraham, or any combination of the three, why would you listen to Siddhartha? They all had some good ideas, but didn't really quite understnd what was going on. The Buddha really didn't know what he was talking about, and just because Buddhism has some vague correlations to modern physics doesn't mean that there is much credibility in what he said. Buddhism is entirely words, physics is entirely math; they are inherently different an should not be crossed. Go ahead, explain the number four in words, no math whatsoever, just words. Is it working? I didn't think so. How can the idea of what some guy said about suffering and the scientifically and mathematically defined concepts of force, energy and matter be linked?
Leave energy, force and matter to the physicists, leave the essence of life to the biochemists. Why listen to old, ignorant traditions? If the Buddha had known that his very thoughts were governed by ion concentrations and membrane potentials in his nerve cells, he'd have been less likely to have created another legion of misguided people.