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Skepticism & Barriers of Language and Culture (in Buddhism)

I don't know if I'll cross paths with anyone who has interests compatible to my own through this forum (the odds are low, but it seems wort…

Started by Eisel Mazard

0 Jul 26, 2012

What is different in your life's perspective because of Buddhism.

    I have not known jealousy or powerful desire for many years. For example, about 7 years ago my youngest daughter who was 11 at the time…

Started by Philip Jackson Armstrong

6 May 3, 2012
Reply by Philip Jackson Armstrong

My power

As a practicing christian, a hard worker in church related programs such as Sunday school, women's bible study groups, food and clothes for…

Started by Joan Denoo

2 Apr 4, 2012
Reply by Steph S.

Zhuangzi or Chuang Tzu

Has anyone here heard about Zhuangzi (aka Chuang Tzu)? He is one of the founders of Taoism, and well known as a skeptical thinker. There is…

Started by Matt

5 Feb 4, 2012
Reply by Rich Dorfman

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

I just picked up Stephen Batchelor's new book at the library. I'm only about 60 pages in but it's quite interesting. Here is the excerpt fr…

Started by Supernaut

2 Aug 10, 2011
Reply by Ruth Tiner

Yeats and the Second Coming

Siddhartha Gautama, whom the vulgar are wont to name "the Buddha" (as if there were only one), was born Hindu.  The concepts of a personal…

Started by James M. Martin

1 Jul 2, 2011
Reply by James M. Martin

Nothing Through the Tantras

Now that I can look back, my last religious impulse was derived from the tantras, which teach "yoga through bhoga" and in their more extrem…

Started by James M. Martin

0 Jun 8, 2011

baby steps

Hello everyone, I am new to the concept of Buddhism and am very curious to know more about it. I was brought up in a very strict christian…

Started by Ruth Tiner

6 May 26, 2011
Reply by Rodney Turner

Just Curious...

I have been a member of this forum now for a few months, but have not posted anything, so this will be my first. At any rate, in reading so…

Started by Michael Hunter

13 Feb 14, 2011
Reply by Edward Teach

Effects of environmental factors on the brain

Very interesting article:   Rudeness Is A Neurotoxin

Started by Vangelis Stamatopoulos

1 Jan 6, 2011
Reply by Hiram

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My first funeral as an atheist

Posted by Two Cult Survivor on May 21, 2013 at 11:30am 0 Comments

I posted the bulk of this on another thread, but wanted to add some context separately.

I finally confronted my faith and embraced the fact of my atheism late last August, 2012. Days after I revealed my "epiphany" to a few friends who knew me from another message board, my sister died from Lou Gehrig's Disease (which pissed her off because she hated catching a disease from someone she never f---ed).

THAT was my sister, understand? She was a beautiful, life-loving, potty-mouthed…

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Death of a family member

Posted by Larry Taylor on May 20, 2013 at 8:15pm 12 Comments

OK. I am venting. My mother died two weeks ago. She was a “god fearing christian.” Before her death she refused all medical treatment. She wanted to be left alone. She even refused to speak with my brother who is a methodist minister. He is a pip, let me tell you! I suspect she did not believe, but a woman born in her time could not and did not state her actual beliefs. This is the opening salvo to all christians; FUCK YOU! I had so many people come and tell…

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