Dawkins in particular specializes in sounding stupid on video. I do recommend reading The Selfish Gene and maybe also The Ancestor's Tale. His writings on evolutionary biology are quite good. I enjoyed Pinker's book The Language Instinct. Haven't been impressed by his others.
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Bravado is indistinguishable from compassion in vajrayana. You gotta be macho to take on the suffering of others and dissolve them into emptiness as a Bodhisattva.
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Avolokiteshvara is androgynous and Guan Yin is feminine
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I'm not meaning to say that the iconography is necessarily authoritative or that there's any "one true path". just that what you've said is at odds with traditional representations.
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