The religion of sitting on your ass all day

Buddhism has a good reputation in the west because it is seen as being different from "superstious", monotheist religions such as Islam.
This is a misinformed belief as Buddhism comes loaded with its own dogma and superstition. The Buddhism we see in the west is merely a commercialised version. True Buddhism is hindered by the fact that it was designed for backwards cultures in asia so is not fully relevant to modern western lifestyles.

Buddhism has split into so many schools its hard to find what their beliefs actually are. Some negative Universal trends in all the schools is Idolatory and the belief that hardship is punishment for crimes committed in another life. The later trend is more harmful than it sounds as the mentally retarded and disabled are looked on with scorn as having committed many past crimes.

Politically Buddhists are only well known for their ability to get there asses kicked as recently shown in Tibet. They are also well known for owning casinos.

So how has this trendy eastern bullshit become popular over here? One often claimed positive attribute of budhism is that it dosen't conflict with science. Woop-dee fucking doo. Reincarnation sounds fuckung stupid but heeyyy science can't disprove it. Karma isn't disproven either. Ok first off none of this crap is located in a physical realm so science can't touch it. I guess Karma kind of is but is there a scientist who cares enough to reasearch it? Nooooo maybe because its mystical bullshit and no one cares.

Why is the Dali lama considered more fashionable than the Pope? They are both about as conservative as each other. Maybe its because the masses have an affinity for losers. Look at people protesting for Palestinian rights as a clear example of this.

“I’ve always wondered why rich Westerners, dismissive about religion in general, find solace in Buddhism. Well, let’s talk a look at the story of Prince Siddhartha, or Buddha as he became known. Basically, it’s the story of a rich kid that decided to slum it. No joke - this guy Buddha was living at home in his palace, leeching off his dad until he was 30. Then like some spoiled trust-fund baby, he decides to leave the palace and finds all this romance in self-inflicted deprivation, all the while knowing that he could ring up his dad to top off his Visa card the minute anything went wrong. Hey, Buddha, here’s a spiritual insight - all these poor people you were trying to emulate would’ve exchanged their noble life under the bodiatry for the opulence of your dad’s palace in a snap! Which brings me back to my original point - I wonder why all these rich Westerners can relate so well to Buddha? Well, maybe it’s because Buddha is the prototypical spoiled rich kid acting all dirty and poor. Let’s face it, if Buddha were alive today, he’d be playing bass guitar in the Strokes.” - John Safran

Actually no one is quite sure who the hell Buddha was since all writings of him are supposedly by different people and based on different people. But this gives the right idea. Rich kid westerners are getting way to enamored with eastern culture to the point where they'll follow these idiotic beliefs.


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