X-Message-Number: 19650 From: Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:17:36 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #19635 - #19646 In a message dated 7/30/02 2:01:13 AM, writes: << >I could see Buddhism having a future in the U.S., however, even while it has >recently declined in Asian countries under various Communist regimes. The "new" religion is always better than the old one. Just like science, though like science, not "always" >Buddhism anticipated modern theories about the illusory nature of >consciousness, and it seems more like a system of psychotherapy than a It also presuposes the illusory nature of the world. Not exactly. What it does is refuse to presuppose independent reality >religion in the Western sense, so it could be compatible with the >scientific outlook of some conjectural Transhuman society. It is no more compatible than most religious systems (not that I have studied it), and it has a highly authoritarian social structure which is antithetical to scientific progress. >> All I have ever seen it be antithetical to is unexamined premises. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19650