TurquoiseB: > So much idiocy and suffering over the centuries, > just because humans can't deal with the concept > of "eternal." > So, how would *not* believing in the 'eternal' cause human 'suffering'?
<snip> > If one merely postulates an eternal universe, > one without beginning or end, then there is no > need for a "creation," and no need for a > "Creator." > Apparently most Buddhists do not believe in eternalism; the Buddha considered a belief in eternalism to be one of the root causes of human suffering. > The entire need for "God" seems to come down to > humans being unable to keep from projecting the > it-began-and-someday-it-must-end-ness... > So, you're thinking that the soul-monad lives forever and never dies; that the soul gets reborn after forty days in the 'Bardo', and then gets to inhabit a new body in another, future life. > ...of their own puny lives onto the universe. > Do physics scientists believe that the universe is eternal and never-ending?
