You are incorrect: he is a poser. It has already been established that Uncle Tantra is currently unable to maintain a single yoga posture, including the corpse pose. It's all a matter of balance, a quality he has not been able to demonstrate in the last 19 years of posting. UT is a True Believer - everything is either black or white - there are no shades of grey in his philosophy.
Buddhists can't take refuge in the gods because the gods are not Buddha. That is, they are not enlightened. All the Hindu gods, for all their power, are not the final truth of things. Power does not necessarily entail knowledge, and for Buddhists the gods do not have the liberating insight. But none of this entails that the gods do not exist or that spirits cannot except a powerful influence over our lives. Thus, the Buddhist has no problem with the gods like UT seems to have. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote : Thank you for demonstrating what a posturer is. The initial statement "Of course god exists" is straightforward and covers all instances of the word "god". It does not cover the "Supreme Ruler God" idea which is why I used the lower case. Apparently you are not intelligent enough to comprehend that difference in usage. Not surprising for a make-it-up Buddhist.
