People changing their minds is exactly the kind of comments LW exists for.
I had similar expectations about Buddhism as a “rational religion” in the past. I guess what helped me was seeing how Christianity is shown in anime, e.g. the Pope is a young guy riding a dragon, and then I started to suspect that our idea of Buddhism might be just as wrong, for similar reasons.
Also, the statements about wonderful effects of meditation remind me of Silva Method that used to be popular here when I was a kid. I spent some time doing that, but didn’t get any supernatural powers. Meditation doesn’t seem much different.
People changing their minds is exactly the kind of comments LW exists for.
I had similar expectations about Buddhism as a “rational religion” in the past. I guess what helped me was seeing how Christianity is shown in anime, e.g. the Pope is a young guy riding a dragon, and then I started to suspect that our idea of Buddhism might be just as wrong, for similar reasons.
Also, the statements about wonderful effects of meditation remind me of Silva Method that used to be popular here when I was a kid. I spent some time doing that, but didn’t get any supernatural powers. Meditation doesn’t seem much different.