tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621024.post6386744094097588272..comments2024-01-09T03:52:43.027-08:00Comments on The Abstract Factory: An objectively incorrect Buddhist beliefKeunwoo Lee (Cog)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05577836853536292311noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621024.post-24259690729729855222009-11-26T10:23:48.241-08:002009-11-26T10:23:48.241-08:00The Dalai Lama has said "If science proves so...The Dalai Lama has said "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own world view...."<br /><br />And what the previous commenter said. Religion is not in the business of making factual assertions about the physical world; reading religious works as if they were bad physics texts is misframing.<br /><br />More <a href="http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2006/09/dalai-lama-rocks.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. BTW found your blog through your post on the climate scientist email hack -- good post.mtravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621024.post-76280211040590013742009-08-11T16:14:13.713-07:002009-08-11T16:14:13.713-07:00Like so much of Buddhist thought this quote is mer...Like so much of Buddhist thought this quote is merely meant to illustrate the interconnectedness of all things. It isn't wrong, but simply not science. And that's ok. "World" and "condition" may not be substituted for "universe" and "objects" for a reason. You may as well, in addition to religion, dismiss all philosophy that doesn't flat out ignore the problems of subject/object dualism. "In the ruins you'll find a lot of interesting history and occasionally some genuine beauty, but when you want to get stuff built, you'd do much better to just study modern architecture." --This part I agree with, assuming that you're only interested in building and manipulating physical things, only interested in getting things built. But these aren't the goals of religion and philosophy, are they.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com