Religous views

[mahawirasd]

<3 whispers... <3

if i may sidetrack just a little bit;
whispers, do you think that Buddhism is a religion (A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) or more appropriately called "a way of life"?

i do not mean to be condescending or anything, on the contrary i hold Buddhism in high esteem. It's just that i feel that Buddha did not talk about supernatural powered deities that control human destiny, but rather talked about how we should behave in order to find inner peace (free ourselves from our bonds) regardless which deity we believe in (thus the notion that a Christian/Muslim/Jew can also behave "appropriately" and thus attain the status of a Buddha).


back to agnosticism;
i personally believe that even though some times it is much more convenient to believe that there is a god and other times it seems overwhelmingly evident that god does not exist, i have to accept the fact that my existence as a human being limits me from really knowing or confirming neither the former nor the latter.
I find that we as humans are limited. We are blinded by our own senses to the extent that we have to rely on them without ever being able to affirm whether they are actually giving us the correct impulses or not. Thus we exist in a universe that we can perceive but can never confirm. Thus "god" too often comes in handy in acting as an external point of reference to justify our existence - thus the all-too-persistent nature of humans to adhere to such meta-physical justifications...

must everything that exists come from something else?

turtles all the way down?


-w-