Brutal truth about religions and spirituality
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goldisheavy, on 18 December 2010 - 08:14 AM, said:I think religion is simply trash. This is especially true of the three big Abrahamic religions, and especially Islam. All of them are pure garbage that drives people into ignorance and hell. They're based on and fervently promote dogma and dogma is nothing other than a package of assumptions.
Spiritual and non-religious people are slightly better, but they too fall into "one size fits all" method nonsense. For example look at the obsession with kundalini. How does kundalini challenge assumptions? I doesn't. In fact kundalini systems are themselves based on assumptions and presuppositions about mind and reality. It's much better to actually explore one's own mind via a testing than to assume something about it, and just keep doing it over and over as a daily practice.
For example, "When the crown chakra opens, one becomes wise." What's that? It's an assumption. In fact, why tie wisdom to any element of experience? Why not this, "When your toes fall off, you become wise?" It's arbitrary. Of course people love their toes, so they're not going to tie wisdom development to their toes falling off. Still, it's arbitrary bullshit.
So people who consider themselves spiritual are most often what I would call "spiritual." In other words, they're materialists who don't have a spiritual bone in their body and who simply take the assumptions about what they believe is a physical world and extend those same assumptions into the spiritual world (about which they have no clue whatsoever, as is evidenced by the fervent desire to find a Guru).My own comments: though gold did not mention about 'Buddhism', doesn't mean there is no bullshit in Buddhism. There is seriously plenty! I don't mean Buddha's teachings, but Buddhism as we see it today.
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Religions never drive people into ignorance and hell, it is people that applying different schools of knowledge in religions or non-religions that may or may not entering the ultimate bliss or beast or bliss & beast. Blame not the religions, blame not the people and blame not yourself, it is the degrees of past lives cultivation that set forth the motion towards the ultimation
