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| Poster: Oracle Reply Post Message Date: Wed Jun 12 13:51:41 2002 |
| Subject: Buddhists' belief |
| Post No: 953 Reply to: 945 |
To call something a cause, there must be an effect. If that is the case, then we are talking about things that already happened. There is nothing special about predicting cause and effect after it already happened. Itís easier to predict cause and effect with things like the rice is cooked because I cooked it. To say I have rice to eat because I was nobility in the previous life is a bit far fetch. You proved yourself wrong when you said that even how hard some people tried to learn, they would never succeed. ĎAí doesnít always lead to ĎBí. The rule of cause and effect didnít apply here? Yes, Buddhist believes in re-birth. But they also bow down to Buddha before they know who he is or understand his teaching. Buddha preached about re-birth, before he died. How do he know if thereís such a thing. I recalled a Buddhist scripture that talks about a personís past life by what handicap they have today. This reminded me of the Asian fortune telling. Categorizing billions of people into variations of 12 animals. Trillions of atoms bounce off each other instantaneously. Are you going to explain to me the cause and effect of each interaction and how it was faith or cause and effect? |