Should I split off a separate twitter account for tweets about Buddhism? I'd keep this one for sci-tech, society, and secular methods of meaning.
Choice 3: "I only care about one of these, but am OK seeing the other"
Choice 4: "I actively want to see both!"
Many branches of Buddhism have eliminated all supernatural elements, going back at least as far as the 1850s: https://vividness.live/2011/07/05/the-king-of-siam-invents-western-buddhism/ … OTOH, most Buddhists do have supernatural beliefs. A significant fraction do not. I personally have pretty much a naturalistic worldview
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I say “pretty much” only because “supernatural” is another vague word. If you start asking hard questions about what exactly it means, it starts to disintegrate.
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How? And what is a hard question? Maybe two requirements are that the supernatural event is unfalsifiable, and breaks a falsifiable law of physics?
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