Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA12963 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:19:00 +0100 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:08:14 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme Message-ID: <20010328200814.F11214@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D2B@inchna.stir.ac.uk> <3AC1E758.4DB5AC34@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <3AC1E758.4DB5AC34@bioinf.man.ac.uk>; from Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:30:00PM +0100 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:30:00PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote:
> My surmise of Robin's Buddhism is that it is more like yoga than
> anything else - a manual for self control which happens to have a lot of
> baggage with it about the originators of this particular route to
> (temporary) self-ablation, therefore I can see why he would assert that
> it wasn't a 'religious' thing. OK tear me to bits now...
It's so common as to be nearly a cliche to say that Buddhism is not a
religion, but a philosophy. I don't have any serious problem with that,
except that I do recognise bits of what I value in Buddhism, in (other)
religions too. And, of course, I wouldn't like to lose the excuse to
bait the rabid anti-religionists! :-)
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