Cringiest Fedora "Religion?" - Because "I don't believe in God" isn't speshul enough

[Linako 2.0]

Discordians. I knew someone who legally changed her name to Eris.

Anyone who takes "chaos magic" seriously.

They exist? I thought they went extinct like the church of subgenius and only exist as footnotes on internet history.

 

[PaladinBoo]

The Mahayana sect I like the sound of best is Pure Land. Like you said, all one has to do is sincerely recite the Nianfo / Nenbutsu / etc (and not do certain really bad things), and one is assured Nirvana after death, courtesy of the Buddha Amida.

But anyway like you said, in the West it's this "euphoric" New Age thing. I remember seeing this book in the "New Age" section at a Barnes & Noble which related Buddhism to motorcycle repair or something like that. Along with other stuff that seemed to appeal to the mentality @Ped Xing made this thread about.

Also I heard that something Western Buddhists often miss is the "community aspect" present among Asian believers.

Western Leftists have very strange views on Buddhism. I'm someone who is fascinated by Buddhism, attends meditation retreats time to time and has a lot of books on Buddhism. Buddhist have a belief that what your mind tells you isn't reality. I would think the LGBTQ+ loving Leftists would have a problem with Buddhism. Buddha, if he were alive today, would tell a tranny that just because their mind tells them that they are a woman that doesn't make it so. There is a reason why Buddhist from Asia have a very low opinion on "New Age" Western Buddhists. They didn't read the Dhammapada, The Pali Canon, nor study the sutras. They only like the feel good and suppose non judgmental aspects of Buddhism.