Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:08 am
So, what would you do if you met 'god'?
So, what would you do if you met 'god'?
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So, what would you do if you met 'god'?
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:10 am
Invite him in for a cup of tea.plwk wrote: So, what would you do if you met 'god'?
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:11 am
I'd ask him whether or not he's a follower of the Buddha. It'd be great if God and I could talk Dhamma. 
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:40 am
I'd say OOPS! Sorry. Can I still come in?
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:55 am
Look at him straight in the eyes and sing "What if God was one of us.."
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:34 am
I don't know, I think I'd let him have the first word.
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:43 am
Heck, I'd ask him if he did:Yana wrote:Look at him straight in the eyes and sing "What if God was one of us.."
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:30 am
Spike MilliganBorn screaming small into this world-
Living I am.
Occupational therapy twixt birth and death-
What was I before?
What will I be next?
What am I now?
Cruel answer carried in the jesting mind
of a careless God
I will not bend and grovel
When I die. If He says my sins are myriad
I will ask why He made me so imperfect
And he will say 'My chisels were blunt'
I will say 'Then why did you make so
many of me'.
On a slightly different note, it is interesting that Dawkins thinks that it was impossible, pre-Darwin, to be an "intellectually fulfilled atheist". I wonder what type of fulfilment he thinks the intellect affords us.
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:20 pm
Funny Richard Dawkins 
There are some 'science believers' who are like cows who eat the grass but do not know the fauna
on the other hand the Buddha is commonly identified with religion but used the scientific principle
There are some 'science believers' who are like cows who eat the grass but do not know the fauna
on the other hand the Buddha is commonly identified with religion but used the scientific principle
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:26 pm
Science is always open ended, which is to say that it is open to revision in term of new facts. Is Buddhism so?nibbuti wrote:Funny Richard Dawkins
There are some 'science believers' who are like cows who eat the grass but do not know the fauna
on the other hand the Buddha is commonly identified with religion but used the scientific principle
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:59 pm
About what Richard Dawkins said at the end:
Why did the God conceal himself? A smart believer can answer that:
1)God deliberately conceals himself and plants evidence against His existence to test our faith.
2) Evolution does NOT refute God. A smart believer can say that God made evolution, Big Bang, whatever science discovers to occur.
Why did the God conceal himself? A smart believer can answer that:
1)God deliberately conceals himself and plants evidence against His existence to test our faith.
2) Evolution does NOT refute God. A smart believer can say that God made evolution, Big Bang, whatever science discovers to occur.
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:09 pm
Honestly? I would say "Go f*** yourself, you maniac!" That would be the first thing I would say. From there on, idk. It would depend on how he responded.
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:28 pm
IMHO, since the notion of God the Father denotes as well all the jhanic planes, every serious jhana practitioner meets the God.plwk wrote:So, what would you do if you met 'god'?
So, when I would meet 'god', I would develop wisdom (panna) during the meeting by tracking the Conditioned Arising.
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:29 pm
Give him much metta since he's deluded like all beings in Samsara...plwk wrote:
So, what would you do if you met 'god'?
Metta!
Re: Richard Dawkins: If I met god when I die.
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:59 pm
I would say, "Funny, you don't look Jewish."
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