Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Who was the Buddha?" video.

@boonboon5448 Trying to overcome suffering with insight. vs Worshiping the creator of all suffering, who plans to create an infinity of more suffering. Yeah religions ain't the same. "Salvation" as just being on the good side of the bully and giving up all hope or intention to help others.
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That's you projecting virtues on a historical figure, you can't possibly know he actually had, just like Buddhists project magical abilities on him.
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That's precisely the point of the story: he didn't come to accept a bad state of the world as a child, so he was ready to do sth about it when it shocked him as an adult. Many children abused by their parents think that all parents abuse their children. They think it's "natural" and don't seek a way out. Your defeatism is precisely the problem.
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@buzztube1738 This. He's thinking of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, but they all have a common root. Their gods didn't develop separately, but are the same character.
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A mind completely untouched by education.
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No, it's a result of people being unwilling to judge and reject religions. So instead of rejecting buddhism, they insist that their own cherrypicked version is the "true" buddhism. The same happens in Christianity sans colonialism.
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@danielpaulson8838 Not everything is a metaphor. It's not far fetched for a young man to leave his home, especially if wandering holymen are already a thing in the culture.
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@Ravi9A I can 100% reject Islam and be for giving alms. There's no tension there. It's almost impossible for a religion to get EVERYTHING wrong.
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@originaluddite That's still completely unrealistic. Plus it adds to the mythical characteristic, because of the irony of it. Reads just like a greek legend.
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No.
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Lol, imagine you go to bed and when you wake up, there's suddenly trillions of people from your dream all around.
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Siddharta died billions of times, often painfully for the sake of others. A zen monk slips on a banana peel and becomes enlightened.
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@ussinussinongawd516 No, Mara is a dude. It's so exhausting that people force everything to be something else when it comes to myths.
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@joefantasia4111 That doesn't make any sense. It's impossible for life to require death, because death is just the end of a particular organism. You first need an organism and then that organism has to suffer irreparable damage. If it never does, then you have life and no death. Otherwise you have life and later death. If someone dies, you lose them forever. But in a certain, technical way, you are in the same position as your loved ones are and always were. If "you" is to describe the thinker of thoughts, the experiencer of experience, then it doesn't exist.
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@danielpaulson8838 Projecting what you want to see onto a text isn't profound at all. You're less intellectually accomplished than "the masses", you're terribly failing at decoding a message, bcs you're thinking about your wishes not the author's intentions.
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It would be starkly unrealistic even if Siddharta was only twelve. For a grown man with wife and son it just doesn't make sense whatsoever.
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@Al Jean If you don't believe in magical BS the way to end suffering is to destroy all life. Not suffering is only half of the picture, maximal happiness is the other. There's gradations of happiness, non-existance isn't the best state.
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@Malik I agree otherwise, but there would still be the same urgency in most situations if you lived forever. And even more urgency to do some things, because an infinity of future actions builds on what you're doing now.
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@albinjohnsson2511 Then colonization is only bad from the "Western" perspective as well... You morons think you can do away with notions of rationality and human dignity while at the same time crying about "colonizers".
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