I’m pretty sure meditation has more science behind it than prayer will ever get. I’m starting to think that your getting outraged at a Buddhist private school is trolling, in a parody of how much worse the much more common Catholic schools are.
I’m not particularly outraged, I’m just trying to point out that even the seemingly
harmless religions can be bad as well.
Because the actions of a few followers obviously reflects an entire religion.
What if science fact is just a religion, and scientists just make things up and say they did research and testing just to get people to shut up about other religions?
Whoa
I’d find your comment funny but unfortunately there are people out there who actually think that’s the truth.
If it is the truth, it would make you a religious zealot and the people of other religions would be heretics.
Going a few posts back – meditating is one of the most healthy “religious” practices you can do. It’s great on the mind and on the spirit and lets you reflect on events in your life.
For someone who’s never done it it could seem tedious at first, but once you get into the habit of doing it consistently (NOT for any religious reasons, but for health reasons), it becomes a valuable part of your day.
Then again, you could have ADHD.
Meditation doesn’t have to be religious in nature. I see no problem with meditating as it can take a lot of different forms.
If meditation helps you, great.
Weed helps me meditate.
There are those who can reflect upon their thoughts and feeling without perfect silence and stillness.
True. There are also people who find silence beneficial to their focus.
I still don’t see what this has to do with atheism.
Helps us think alot of shit? lol
I generally abuse it daily, not so much lately, but when i come off it for say a month, bad things happen. :zip:
4 hours of still silence with no entertainment or stimulation of any sort is my record.
A sane person would probably start masturbating if left alone for that long.
Well, the research is out there for anyone to review, test, and research to their heart’s content. You’re allowed to “check their work” as it were. That’s what makes it different from religion.
In fact, science kind of DEMANDS you “check their work” to ensure that they’re not wrong somewhere. All current scientific theories have been checked and recheck eleventy-billion times by eleventy-billion people and if they all come to the same conclusion, then perhaps that theory is pretty sound. That’s called “peer review”.
If a theory is to be challenged, then it’s going to be tough to surmount that avalanche of evidence but if there was a true challenge, then one would be up for a Nobel Prize. Science loves it when you challenge them (as long as said “challenge” is based on actual evidence not just “nuh uh!”). They crave it.
I don’t see religion craving such challenges to their very precepts. In fact, the mere questioning is sometimes seen as “bashing” or “hatred”. You just don’t do it.
Science requires evidence, not faith. Religion is the opposite.
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Brace for incoming questions.
How would you define science? Only as the framework for discovery and rationalisation of knowledge? (the scientific method), or as something more?
Science and atheism are unrelated, but being an atheist I think science is a method of acquiring knowledge about the truth of nature / natural phenomena through experimentation and observation.
ergo, the scientific method.