[blogwado]

Greetings stuka:

stand[ing] up the Straw Man

requires argument construction. No argument construction occurred on my part. You do know what an argument is, right?

a kid

I'm not the one behaving childishly.

folks who fancy themselves philosophers.

How would you know one way or the other?

the Buddha's teachings...[don't] not require any sort of ontology, metaphysics, cosmologies, or any other sort of superstitions.

Requirements? That's your projection. I was asking about connections, not requirements.
Metta,
bucky