Christianity's all children's book morals and a personal sky daddy that keeps you trapped in dualistic thinking. You're either saved or damned, God is totally other, your ego stays boss of your life. But Buddhism actually kills nihilism by embracing emptiness as the ground of everything and breaking the self down to let real compassion flow. It doesn't plug another metaphysical band‑aid over Western ego trip, instead it nukes the whole ego, dissolves the subject/object split, and reveals the organic, interpenetrating nature of reality. No more Cartesian zombies, no more being stuck in affirmation/negation hell: form is emptiness, emptiness is form. You get impersonal personality, zero‑self rooted in dependent co‑origination, and from that place a genuine, self‑less love for all beings. Christianity just can't compete, it's too mired in theism, guilt, and this backward Western obsession with linear history, whereas Buddhism gives you a timeless, life‑affirming path out of Western culture's existential abyss.
>>41599294See David Drewes' papers on the historicity of the Buddha. We at least can verify Jesus taught what he taught - can't do that at all with the historical Buddha. /thread
>>41599294Gnosticism is Western Buddhism.
>>41599294Christianity is for those who wish to save their souls for eternity. Emptiness-oriented religions like Buddhism are for those who wish to shed their souls and individuality completely after death and return to the Source.
>>41599294>Buddhism gives you a timeless, life‑affirming pathBuddhism is the polar opposite of life-affirming. It teaches you there's no God, you have no soul, you don't even have a self, there's absolutely no meaning to life, and that the only worthwhile goal is to escape life (samsara) itself. It constantly focuses on the negative aspects of life, to the point where Theravada monks are taught to stare at pictures of gore and dead bodies to 'contemplate the ugliness of the body'. Only difference with Mahayana is you're taught stick around to 'compassionately' ensure the entire world loses all passion for life and chooses to collectively sink back into the void.
>>41599294Zoroastrianism mogs both
>>41599294They are different things. It's like saying that math is better than physics.
>>41599298The Buddha is not a historical figure he is identical with the Void. Same Void same Outer Space surrounding all the Higher Planets. But keep up on your geocentric model, the "God-Man," not such a bad idea but there is probably also the "God-Lizard," the "God-Machine," etc.
>>41599342Gonna sort of journal here, I can kind of sympathize because I worked for 10 years on this website propagate.info, to Enlighten other people, and thru good karma I found Buddhism. At this point I believe literally every book on there is completely useless, and I don't really want to pursue it. I think I'm just gonna record sutra audiobooks instead. The wild thing about Buddhism, Perfection of Wisdom for example, is that your intuitions have Truth functions directly attached to them, so when you course in Prajna you immediately know it is true (whereas when you're Christian you have to take a leap of faith). For example you can't read Jesus' words and know with 100% certainty that Jesus' words are Truth, but you can have Cartesian certainty in Buddhist thoughts. Anyway I have so much certainty in my thought, of emptiness, Dharma, coursing in Prajna, etc., that I've come to believe the website which I once thought was a Moral imperative is completely nihilistic. I am almost certain about it, and will probably not pursue it, and just record Mahayana audiobooks on YouTube. Could've been really big though, the code is good. Actually lost my life over it, but we won't get into that
>>41599517Just for perspective, while Jesus said he would return in his Apostles' lifetimes, Buddha talks about coursing in Prajna for 3 trillion years
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>>41599294>worshipping the Kami and Pagan GODs or both and shamanic invocation > kekdhism > kekianityThe more you learn about it, the more you find out it's still kek'd. It's a different form of kek'd and can look better in comparison only.>b-but uhh you can't worship Kami if you aren't Jap-*follows religion from India*No.
>>41599294All religion is gay because all religion is superstition and superstition is gay. If "God" wanted us to follow a specific path then God would make that path knowable. It would not be concealed under a heavy system of mysticism and Jesus being your intermediare between God? See where the superstition starts? They say you can't access God by yourself, but you need an intermediator, Jesus, or in this case, "his priests". I mean, this is so obvious a trap. They want to trap you. If God is real, God wants you to live your life as you want and see what ressonates inside you. You don't need an intermediator between you and the divine. That's BS. So the divine is a monopoly now? They have the monopoly into godhood? Don't be silly. Buda was a faggot.
>>41599294Buddhism is not for everyone.It's only for those who want to leave Samsara.
>>41601648 Samsara = nirvana. Your pic is the work of a pure retard. Kek.
>>41601667Consider the possibility that you're just ignorant.Why is this board full of dumb "kek"-children? Could you just leave and let the adults talk?
>>41601677 There's literally zero ontological difference between samsara and nirvana. Your pic is retarded because it implies you can actually escape to somewhere. There is no escape. Cope.
>>41599294Nonsense. You are completely clueless.Here's the final redpill:https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1m0px7o/attention_at_least_one_rapture_has_already/
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>>41599298it doesn't matter if buddha was a historical figure or not because buddhism doesn't rely on fate but instead delivers philisophical arguments anyone can examine and contemplate, while jesus made claims that are not verifiable and dependant on faith, which is why christians search so hard for every little bit of """proof""" they can find like the shroud of turin, as if that would proof any of the other claims they make
>>41599294Buddha is a coward. Suffering can't be removed and hell must be walked through. The Bible is meant to be turned inward. That's how myth works. But it's also written against the backdrop of the times and cultures. Needs updating since no one knows how to actually interpret it and Christians recoil at things they deem satanic and thus miss the point completely.
>>41602518The proof is always within.
>>41599496Christianity doesn't rely on fate or predestination, unless you are a Calvinist. Which is heresy.
