I've had similar 'debates' with my younger brother: he is very pro-science, in that he believes that everything science tells us is fact. He says that science proves that Earth and all beings are created through 'big bang' phenomena and that we are purely existing. When we die, we die and thats it. ...

To say that humans invented science is like saying we invented fire. Science is about listening to nature to learn it's languange and patterns similar to what the Buddha did for a totally different domain: subjective experience. Science focuses on "out there" while Buddha focused on "...

Hi Kim,

Thats cool, its good to have the crack.

I'm enjoying what I'm finding on here, and hope to learn a lot. I just hope any remarks I make don't appear impertinent, as I'm not Buddhist, but I hope thats ok anyway. Don't hold it against me lol!!

Cheers

And science, is only science as we know it/developed it/interpret it. Or, in other words another way of measuring. As we have established. Who invented science? Science is essentially organised, disciplined, knowledge - inconsistencies tracked down and resolved, uncertainties investigated, etc. No-...

I'm from Scotland, but currently live in Bangkok, Thailand.

From a strictly scientific viewpoint, space-time is not separate from matter-energy. Does this translate to space-time is not separate from sankaras? The only thing left is Nirvana, and I will not speculate on that matter. And science, is only science as we know it/developed it/interpret it. Or, in...

I've skipped some of the replies, so apologies if this has been covered.. Sex is for pro-creation exclusively. Thats it, dead simple. With all due respect to the OP, but I really thought that is was an attempt at a wind up. I think even the 'best' of us have sexual urges, but some real heavy duty th...

What is time? In my mind, there is no such thing as time. We are only passing through this, as we know it. We are so, as a world, pre-occupied by "time". Time this, time that. I guess its just a way of measuring something, like weight and height. There is also no such thing as weight or he...

Hi, I'm a curious onlooker, and I'm not Buddhist, so excuse me if I don't use terminology. But, surely, if a person commits an evil deed, or a series of evil deeds, then its we that are defining them based on these deeds? For instance, just because someone is perceived to have acted well, do we cons...

Hi, I am a Scot living and working in Bangkok, Thailand. Thought I'd sign up to the forum to try and learn, or least understand the 'religion' or rather, practices of my host nation. Although I am practising Catholic, I have always been very sensual towards all religions - which is fundamental. I ha...