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It should terrify you. They are either grifters willing to do anything to anyone in order to prove their beliefs, or they are extremely unwell mentally and would likely do anything to anyone in order to see their imagined reality play out.
I'll let you in on a secret as well... All religions are doomsday cults.
Maybe not for Buddhism or Shinto.
But Abrahamic religions do seem to have that tendency.
Depending on the form and era of buddhism, I do think that some have eschatology rooted in the belief structure.
To your point tho, I don't think its nearly as dogmatic.
Look at the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar and tell me how peaceful and not doomsday Buddhism is.
All religions are susceptible to manipulation by terrible people.
All people are susceptible to manipulation by terrible people.
Fixed. Religions just put religious leaders in a position, where they have authority to push their ideas. Given that religious people are irrational by definition, it makes them easier to manipulate.
I am well aware of the Rohingya genocide. I am only saying they are not “doomsday” as they don’t seem to think the world is ending.
That is closer to ethnic cleansing which is completely wrong but is another issue.
These folks are grifters just as big as televangelists were in the 80's. The only thing is, they figured out that they can get away with a lot more if they don't do the TV circuit, and just act. If you dig a bit (spy on them the way they try to spy on us) you'll learn some very scary things.
"She would use $950,000 of her divorce settlement to buy the mountain."
I'm just flabbergasted by the sheer amount of money these people have. Who has $950,000 or anywhere close to that amount of cash? Even if I sold my house I wouldn't have that!
What if you get 1 million dollars, but you hear voices telling you to do things.
Pass
Same. Every time I hear people being scammed millions of dollars, I would be like, "why are these people falling for scams so rich?"
I'm biased but I believe it was way easier to make money in the past based on growth and economic performance. Like imagine if the house you bought increased in value 4x and the stock market absolutely exploded upward. It would be hard to lose, you just needed a little bit of play money to kick start it all.
Isn't that like actual verified fact thought? Just looking at the growth (or lack thereof) of wages vs. executive compensation will tell you that money is getting increasingly concentrated in the hands of a smaller group of people.
You can thank eg. that fucking sociopath Thatcher and the useful idiot Reagan.
When those folks say, "no racism", I'm pretty sure they mean, "no non-white people left to be racist against".
Damn it, I wanted to buy that mountain for god 😡!
The only times God has spoken directly to me were to tell me I was being stupid.