That the quibbling over terminology is in any way ameliorated by... more quibbling over terminology.
You're using a hammer to flatten a dough.
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Not what was entailed.
I agree semantics matter. Connotations, too
Yet, the disagreement is phenomenological, not semantic. You can redefine, but it won't clarify.
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The mistake is thinking "awakening", "waking up" & "enlightenment" even should connotate the same way to different people.
Nothing else works like that. There are always more entailments.
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Hahahahah.
I'd sooner expect to find my Self than a central Buddhist authority.
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The Hindus don't even agree on who the Supreme Being is, or if there even is one.
Buddhism confuses with its endless reference to the Buddha, but those Buddhas are not the same. Nor are the ethics. Nor are the metaphysics.
Nor, indeed, even the goals and means of practice.
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Maybe Buddhism embodies a range of concepts found in such a constellation in no other place. But even that, I suspect, is a lie.
"Buddhist" is just a word.
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I'm not just saying all this stuff to be a jerk, by the way. I think it's pretty foundational to this topic, or any topic in the same range.
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Hey, I'll have you know I can produce a lot of words in a very short period of time!