I'm fairly confident that you don't become an Asian-Australian architectural engineer by believing the same things he does. Your idea is a gross oversimplification. There are religious beliefs that are explicitly not part of any organized religion. Buddha himself recognized the existence of the Hindu pantheon. Buddhism did not reject the existence of deities, just the idea that we should worship them. Buddhists consider deities to be just as trapped in samsara as we are, and since the goal of Buddhism is to break free of samsara then it follows that you shouldn't waste time appealing to higher powers, even if they can affect your mortal life. Of course Buddhists worship their own proxy deities in the form of bodhisattvas, but that's besides the point.
I really don't understand what point your trying to make here. Your talking about something that's completely different. Maybe not an organized religion, but all religious beliefs must come from some sort of religion by definition. But there are at least some Buddhists that don't believe any any God. Mostly the American and European converts.
You made a misspelling of Christian. You said Christan. I posted an image of Chris Tan, an Asian-Australian architectural engineer, to point this out. You then responded and made the same spelling error, twice in a row, without realizing what you did the first time. Demondaze pointed this out further, and the fact that you answered in this way illustrates your apparent dyslexia and total ignorance of your own posts.
Has a materialist, I don´t believe in ghosts (or any kind of supernatural identity. When people say they have seen a ghost or whatever, it can be explained by psychology (hallucinations and other phenomenoms in the brain which may cause someone to "see a ghost"), by natural causes, missintrepertation of photos and other explanations.
Any rational human being that doesn't regard themselves and their fellow men as mindless collections of atoms. But rather as thinking sentient creatures based in objective reality.
Regardless of the rest of your comment generally if you say "I am a Christian" you are making a statement about what you believe. Generally if you say "I am an Asian-Australian architectural engineer" you are making a statement not about what you believe but a set of skills you possess. Christianity is a belief system, Engineering is a trade. If you believe in Christianity then for all intensive purposes you are a Christian. That doesn't necessarily mean you don't believe in Buddhism & provided the beliefs don't contradict itself then you can be both.
I was mocking him. It wasn't a metaphor, it was to show that he couldn't spell the word correctly. He said "Christan" multiple times. Hence my posting of the picture of Chris Tan, who happens to be an Asian-Australian architectural engineer. As well, it's "for all intents and purposes," not "for all intensive purposes".
Touché I didn't think you could agree with that metaphor. I did read your post about misspelling but it didn't click. As for the figure of speech that does make more sense, it's a phrase I tend to hear spoken but don't tend to see written so that would explain why I got it wrong. I would think it is a common mistake
