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No Buddhist has ever said anything that has motivated me to read Buddhist texts.
It's like they're all color blind, and we try to point out Red (that without a first principle/universal unity all systems are arbitrary).
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Buddhism isn't about figuring out creationism, you have to view it from their perspective. It was an ancient cult solely focused on liberating themselves from suffering, nothing else. What you're looking for is dinduism which has all these other theories.
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>>25213744
>solely focused on liberating themselves from suffering
Yes but the efficacy of the prescribed medicine is contingent, minimally, on the falsity of various Brahmanical metaphysical doctrines
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>>25213744
>claims to hate suffering
>lives a life of pure suffering sleeping on cold stone in the rain and living off mice and rats
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>>25213734
Certain later Mahayana and Vajrayana schools especially in East Asia sometimes articulate a universal metaphysics of unity but in a way that is made consistent with sunyata & other basic Buddhist principles, but the net effect is that it still has some degree of explanatory power regarding the universe and sometimes even teleology, and does so without reducing everything to a ‘there is only relativistic nominalistic relations’ worldview.

The people who follow these schools dont post much on /lit/ about them though, the ones on 4chan are often either just a theravadin or someone with a very materialism-adjacent interpretation of Mahayana.
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>>25213734
I'm so sick of these godbotherers
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>>25213734
>(that without a first principle/universal unity all systems are arbitrary).
That's literally the point.
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>>25214361
>say there's no principle of unity
>yet somehow unity returned
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>>25213907
I'm convinced it's only a handful and they just spam all day. Maybe they convinced their pastor that it should count as their Mission.
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>>lives a life of pure suffering sleeping on cold stone in the rain and living off mice and rats
It's not suffering if you don't care

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