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Descartes
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I am atheist. And see a hell of a lot of truth in eastern philosophy. Buddhism included.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off
Cogito Ergo Sum
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Serj Tankian
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I am not atheist but I still like and respect it.
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"Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground." -John Lennon
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sertrbl
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buddhism isnt exactly a religion, more of a way to live your life.
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eye of the storm
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I like it.
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ird13
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My father is a Buddhist and an Atheist. I don't know as much about the religion, but I obviously value it highly. I also think it is more of a philosophy than a religion, not that other religions aren't philosophic as well xD
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Stormblazer
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I don't like its obsessive focus on rejecting materialism, even while using an equivocative connotation of it.
It feels like they're saying to supress that which makes you human in order to be more human.
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Aimforthehead
Love and peace!
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One of the most hypocritical religions, I've found out.
Very peaceful, but they value strong ego. Certain sects aren't bad but mainstream ones, materialistic and structured. Everything Buddhism shouldn't have been.
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All you can see is the Earth.
In a sane society, decisions are not made but arrived at.
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Dexter Ward
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Quote: from Aimforthehead at 8:43 pm on Nov. 10, 2009
 One of the most hypocritical religions, I've found out.
Very peaceful, but they value strong ego. Certain sects aren't bad but mainstream ones, materialistic and structured. Everything Buddhism shouldn't have been.
That seems to be how many religions end up. Look at Christianity, he taught loving one's neighbors, had people give up their wealth to follow him, ate with sinners, and taught to hate the sin not the sinner. Now several followers and sects are so far from that that it's sickening. Post edited at 7:09 pm on Nov. 10, 2009 by Dexter Ward
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Wilder 
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Quote: from Baron Samedi at 4:13 pm on Nov. 10, 2009
It's one of the few organized religions I really don't mind. But does Buddhism really even qualify as an actual religion anymore?
What would qualify Buddhism as not religious? If anything, the prevailing academic attitudes have much more strongly espoused the fact that Buddhism is a religion by moving away from the antiquated, ethnocentric, Protestant schema of religion that dominated Religious Studies in this country for so long.
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