[quote:post_uid0="political_geek"]hey sorry you two I meant Buddhism..... I got the 2 mixed up for some strange reason (probably because I woke up a few minutes before I posted that sorry :( ) but the information would still be helpful since i don't know much about Judaism either :)[/quote]
started by a guy named sadahta something i spelled it completely wrong.

there are a couple of diferent types of budhism, the one that i remember stuff about is zen budhism.

i think budhism in general is all about taking the middle path, budhist "worship" the budha, i use the term worship very losely because they just use the budha as a role model he is not a god or anyhting like that. Middle path basically works like this, you shouldn't focus on one end of any spectrum wheather its food money or emotions.

in budhism you get reincarnated untill you reach enlightenment, after that you go with the budha in, #### i can't remember the word, more or less you go to heaven, if you don't get enlightened then you get reincarnated. The budha is able to reincarnate himself at will he is supposed to help us reach enlightenment thats all i can remember right now.

BTW im a christian

[quote:post_uid0="SSJDan"][quote:post_uid0="political_geek"]hey sorry you two I meant Buddhism..... I got the 2 mixed up for some strange reason (probably because I woke up a few minutes before I posted that sorry :( ) but the information would still be helpful since i don't know much about Judaism either :)[/quote]
started by a guy named sadahta something i spelled it completely wrong.

there are a couple of diferent types of budhism, the one that i remember stuff about is zen budhism.

i think budhism in general is all about taking the middle path, budhist "worship" the budha, i use the term worship very losely because they just use the budha as a role model he is not a god or anyhting like that. Middle path basically works like this, you shouldn't focus on one end of any spectrum wheather its food money or emotions.

in budhism you get reincarnated untill you reach enlightenment, after that you go with the budha in, #### i can't remember the word, more or less you go to heaven, if you don't get enlightened then you get reincarnated. The budha is able to reincarnate himself at will he is supposed to help us reach enlightenment thats all i can remember right now.

BTW im a christian[/quote]
thank's :)

i cant' remember the example fully but there is this question about reality that budhist think about it kind of goes something like this.

They'll ask a question

For example
what is a chair?

and then they break the chair up into different components like the chair's leg, or the arm of the chair, if you take apart the chair is it still a chair. The whole point of this exercise is to figure out abosolute truths, i guess what they are trying to prove is that the chair in whatever form is pointless and therefore you should not worry about it. You can also do the same thing with the human body. For example if you rip your arm off is it still your arm so on and so on. This is probably one of the more fascinating religions to me.

At my high school there is a whole course that is dedicated to teaching about other religions, we learned about budhism, judaism, muslim religion, hinduism and did a little bit on catholocism. He also went on a work shop field trip where people from these religions talked to us about thier religion, they didn't try to convert us or anything which was good, we were allowed to ask them questions about their religion, we even got to eat religious foods, that was my favorite part of the day :D


Another interesting thing about religion is that a lot of them have things in common, for example in hinduism a while back there was this system called the caste system, basically its a ranking system, the higher up you were in the system meant that you were a better/ more divine person and the gods favoured you more. We see this type of thing in calvinism aswell (Its a branch of catholocism) in calvinism the whole idea is that God will bless those who are good, so the better person you are the wealthier you will be and so .... basically the interestng thing is that these two types of beliefs happened centuries apart, and also some people consider calvinism to be a very very early stage of capitalism.

So as you can see even if you don't believe in any religion it has affected your life either way.

[quote:post_uid0="SSJDan"]i cant' remember the example fully but there is this question about reality that budhist think about it kind of goes something like this.

They'll ask a question

For example
what is a chair?

and then they break the chair up into different components like the chair's leg, or the arm of the chair, if you take apart the chair is it still a chair. The whole point of this exercise is to figure out abosolute truths, i guess what they are trying to prove is that the chair in whatever form is pointless and therefore you should not worry about it. You can also do the same thing with the human body. For example if you rip your arm off is it still your arm so on and so on. This is probably one of the more fascinating religions to me.

At my high school there is a whole course that is dedicated to teaching about other religions, we learned about budhism, judaism, muslim religion, hinduism and did a little bit on catholocism. He also went on a work shop field trip where people from these religions talked to us about thier religion, they didn't try to convert us or anything which was good, we were allowed to ask them questions about their religion, we even got to eat religious foods, that was my favorite part of the day :D


Another interesting thing about religion is that a lot of them have things in common, for example in hinduism a while back there was this system called the caste system, basically its a ranking system, the higher up you were in the system meant that you were a better/ more divine person and the gods favoured you more. We see this type of thing in calvinism aswell (Its a branch of catholocism) in calvinism the whole idea is that God will bless those who are good, so the better person you are the wealthier you will be and so .... basically the interestng thing is that these two types of beliefs happened centuries apart, and also some people consider calvinism to be a very very early stage of capitalism.

So as you can see even if you don't believe in any religion it has affected your life either way.[/quote]
I had a class sort of like that. It was called exploring history, it was pretty cool. We learned how civilization started and how it progressed through time. It was really fun... we got to read the oldest book ever discovered (epic of gilgamesh). I remember having a small discussion with my teacher, before going home, about judaism, christianity, and islam, but we didn't get to far. well anyways that class sounds pretty cool hope i get to take something like it :) .

[quote:post_uid0="pip99"]Im a ghetto christian.l[/quote]
same thing here

[quote:post_uid3="sweetgirl411"]muslim[/quote:post_uid3]
6 Votes Muslim
7 Votes Christan

btw ur muslim sweet... :shocked: didn't see that comeing... :p
im to muslim.. :)

im christian and sure prus of it 0_o

i recomend learniong about other religions it can sometimes strengthen your faith and besides you may come to realize that the religion you practice now is not for you.

im also a getto christian like pip99 which means...

...dont really go to chuch all that often just go when important things happen in the church!!!
(basically not all that often!!!!)