Yoga:Hindu in origin

ib1yysguy said:
Here's a good analogy. Society says God is real too. In the sense that my life is worse off because society pushes that idea is real. People fly real airplanes into real buildings because of this idea. God, however, is clearly not real. The consequences of the concept of God, however, are real.
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But we are slotted into the race categories based on very real aspects of ourselves, our gender, our country of origin, our pigmentation.

Race is only real for you when it comes time to punishing those for whom race is real, and it is real to them, because you're punishing them for it, arbitrarily on job sites, their opinions on race unknown.
 
And how do you know which people go in which false race? You don't. What are Indian people? Are they black? Are they Asian? They're neither because race doesn't exist. Society makes categories that people identify with, but the categories are flawed because they cannot accurately reflect reality.

People typically self-identify these days.
 
AssHatZombie said:
But we are slotted into the race categories based on very real aspects of ourselves, our gender, our country of origin, our pigmentation.

Race is only real for you when it comes time to punishing those for whom race is real, and it is real to them, because you're punishing them for it, arbitrarily on job sites, their opinions on race unknown.
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Okay, let me start by breaking down your stupidity into bulletpoints to make it easier for you to read.

1) I choose to self identify because of my heritage, not because of my pigmentation or gender.

2) Gender has nothing to do with race categorization.

3) Your comment about punishment doens't make any sense. God isn't real because someone kills me for not believing.

Your problem here is you have a very difficult time admitting to yourself when you don't understand something. We both agree fundamentally that race has no genetic basis, and we both agree race is a product of society. Your problem is you can't draw a distinction between CONCEPTS and REALITY.

A concept can exist without the fundamentals of the concept reflecting reality. This really isn't difficult, asshat. God and race are societal concepts. They do not have a basis in the real, natural, observable universe.
 
ib1yysguy said:
Okay, let me start by breaking down your stupidity into bulletpoints to make it easier for you to read.

1) I choose to self identify because of my heritage, not because of my pigmentation or gender.

2) Gender has nothing to do with race categorization.

3) Your comment about punishment doens't make any sense. God isn't real because someone kills me for not believing.

Your problem here is you have a very difficult time admitting to yourself when you don't understand something. We both agree fundamentally that race has no genetic basis, and we both agree race is a product of society. Your problem is you can't draw a distinction between CONCEPTS and REALITY.

A concept can exist without the fundamentals of the concept reflecting reality. This really isn't difficult, asshat. God and race are societal concepts. They do not have a basis in the real, natural, observable universe.
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No. When it is implemented in public policy it is effectively real, socially real, relevant, whatever you want to call it regardless of research that says it isn't real on some other dimension. That's what you don't get. Or don't want to get.
 
Basically, for brainwashed self-hating whites like ib1, race is only real as a device for retribution against white males, for any other purpose it has no legitimate meaning, thus, conversation and even thought is shut down in his mind. Protective Stupidity it's called.
 
"effectively real" is not the same as "real." God may be "effectively real" in this sense, but I'm still correct to say God is not real.
 
Hinduism isn't a religion in the way that Christianity, Islam, or Judaism is. It's extremely broad and difficult to define. For instance, they don't believe in obnoxious evangelicism.

Buddhism is even farther into that territory.
 
Watermark said:
Hinduism isn't a religion in the way that Christianity, Islam, or Judaism is. It's extremely broad and difficult to define. For instance, they don't believe in obnoxious evangelicism.

Buddhism is even farther into that territory.
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How do you figure? Buddhism doesn't even have a notion of life after death.
 
Watermark said:
Maybe.

Buddhism is pretty vague. There are some sections of it that delve into near atheist territory; same thing with Hinduism.
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Buddhism has undergone many changes since Guatama started the entire thing, but the original premise of Buddhism has no afterlife. Buddha said specifically that what happens after death isn't knowable and wasn't something he concerned himself with. The entire premise of his philosophy was to separate himself from attachment to earthly things to alleviate suffering by ridding himself of desire. If you don't lust for wealth, you don't suffer by being poor, etc.

This is not a religion, clearly.
 
AssHatZombie said:
I thought buddhism believed in reincarnation. That's at least as bizarre as stigmata.
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The idea of karma and reincarnation is a very complicated one. It's not as simple as you die, you are reborn. There is no soul in Buddhism. There is no permanent self. Buddha spends a lot of time explaining the fact that the idea of a separate self or soul is an illusion.

Anyway, reincarnation is not what you may think it is.
 
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