Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA15176 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:16:50 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D07@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:13:37 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> I'm glad you take my main point. But the other one stands too: it
> is not logical to say that if science is rational, then rationality
> is scientific. If you *really* valued rationality, you'd know that.
>
Call me a fool if you like, but why isn't this a logical statement?
<Well it would help if you (a) took the trouble to look into it a
little,
> and (b) read what you're replying to.>
>
Well that's a bit unfair. I'm not a buddhist so I won't pretend
equal knowledge (and apologies for spelling) but I do read posts properly,
and this seems to me to be a fair question-
> Isn't Bhudda an idol as
> in any other faith?
>
<As you didn't get it the first time:
> And it is a method, not a belief system, which is why Buddhism is not
> a faith. (Or rather, why *this* Buddhism is not a faith -- YMMV.)>
>
Do you own any statues of Buddha? If so, why?
Even if you personally don't, that doesn't stop the evident point
that Buddha has become an idol, as other faiths have their idols. Of course
Buddhism is a belief system, it's a system based on the belief that Buddha
knew what he was talking about and doing, but on what basis is that belief
founded? Faith.
You can't claim it's based on experience, because you have no way of
knowing whether your experiences are the same as Buddha's, and assuming this
is surely a leap of faith.
Vincent
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