Apologetics and Evidence

I have been to several predominant Buddhist countries, I live in a place with Buddhism being a predominant worldview (with a large Dharma center being less than a 40 minute drive from my home), and so this compels me to help people to see Buddhism for what it is. Many people like to say that Buddhism is not a religion , because of the negative connotations that the word “ religion ” has with it today for several ridiculous and poor reasons, but also because many emphasize the philosophical nature of Buddhism so much that it blinds some from seeing it for what it really is, and not seeing how it falls short of offering hope to the world.      Consider with me, if you will, the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. The first is the idea that suffering exists . The second is that we suffer because we are attached to people, places, animals, and things (basically, nouns). The third noble truth is that if we release the attachment to people, places, animals, and things , then ...

              I wrote this article a while ago in another platform, but I wanted to share it here as well, because I think it makes a great point about where evil resides. Often, people think of evil as something so far from themselves, that people are not evil, that evil only exists outside of us, and sadly, many people think that they are incapable of evil. Read below to see where evil actually lives... So, I just returned home from watching the movie “X-MEN Apocalypse.” I would not recommend watching it, because it had the usual explosive eye candy and such, but the “F-bomb” was once used, and generally speaking, it sends the world a very mixed message. That mixed message has people so divided. I mean, think about it. There are the good guys and the bad guys, and they both have serious power. Mutants have the power to take and the power to give. They have the power to take what they want, or on the contrary, they have the power ...

                “There is iphone, and then there is everything else.” –That seems to be the understanding that people at Apple want you to believe. Even looking through the Apple website, one gets the feeling that those who own an iphone are the kings and queens of the world. If you don’t own one, all it takes is for you to buy one and you will become the best of the best.             It seems that the goal is to make phones nowadays as thin as a communion wafer, with a screen surface as wide and long as a book cover, having the brilliance of something more sparkly than a tactical flashlight shining through the Hope Diamond. Better resolution is always a good thing, but it seems that the thinner they get, the more fragile they get. Other companies have the same idea, which is why they make a protective case called the Otter Box , or a company called Lifep...