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**ExpodoDop** · 05-19-2012, 04:15 AM

If Buddhism needs the supernatural stuff then I don't know to what purpose.

Other than to provide consolation and myth for the uneducated, unintelligent, or superstitious. I'd have thought there were fewer of those around today than 2500 years ago.

2500 years ago people had a lot less scientific knowledge about how the world around them worked so they needed these kinds of explanations that religion provided, Buddhism just borrowed the common views of the time to provide people with a context that they could relate to. If one understands what is important in the teaching one understands it works just as well within a very different world view.

05-19-2012, 04:15 AM	#6
ExpodoDop Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 388 Senior Member	If Buddhism needs the supernatural stuff then I don't know to what purpose. Other than to provide consolation and myth for the uneducated, unintelligent, or superstitious. I'd have thought there were fewer of those around today than 2500 years ago. 2500 years ago people had a lot less scientific knowledge about how the world around them worked so they needed these kinds of explanations that religion provided, Buddhism just borrowed the common views of the time to provide people with a context that they could relate to. If one understands what is important in the teaching one understands it works just as well within a very different world view.
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