How many hours have you realistically spent studying the Holy Scriptures and what do you feel it has done for your life?I have read a lot of it but not sure if it has benefited me. I will say yes just in case saying no would curse me.
>>42427794I read parts of the sutra and a lot of commentaries and explainatins, for about 30 years. I was most interested in the philosophy, cosmology and descriptions of the fundamental functions of the mind and how it creates "reality". I learned a lot.
>>42427966For instance what did you learn
>>42427975I learned how this cosmos is structured (cosmic mandala, world disc, flat earth), how the "material reality" comes into existence through the mind, and how to meditate, with the goal to go beyond the illusion and be liberated.
>>42427988Did you find out if Christianity is true or false?
>>42427988You're still on 4chan
>>42428125Yes. The philosophy of the Buddha says that there is no almighty God, and the universe was not created and has no beginning (in the universe world-systems can arise and vanish, but that happens because of karma). Christianity contradicts that and is therefore false. But it can still be that Jesus was a divine being that manifested on Earth to help people to ascend, so I would say christianity is not useless.
>>42428193Thanks brosef
>>42428472In general I would say that religious doctrines are not really part of the paranormal. If there is a God or not, and what his/its nature is, is just a matter of faith. It's abstract, with no way to show any evidence.The paranormal is (for me) something from this world. Actual phenomena that can be seen and studied, laws of nature (in the occult sense) that can be understood and used. That is basically an empiric science.Thoelogy is not, there is just no empirics. When people say they have seen God it proves nothing. And debating about it is pointless. When it's about seeing ghosts there's at least a chance to investigate the phenomena.
>>42427794Well, I have been saved for well over a decade now so there's no way for me to know how many hours exactly (or even just an estimate) because my habits concerning this matter have shifted over time, though I study the KJV everyday. That's my lifeline. Without it I wouldn't know anything about God, the real history of mankind, its later end, the rights and wrongs or how to live out my christian life.One "superpower" I acquired over time is the ability to detect malicious BS, so you're not gonna be able to flimflam me into believing scripture says/suggests something that actually doesn't.
Still working on the Koran. The Tora I don't know. Bible is ok, but it's missing some books.
>>42429646Either God inspired His book and made sure to prserve it for us against human error and corruption, or he isn't god at all so its not use trying to learn any of this to begin with.
