James’s Reviews > The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Vols 1–3 (The End of Sorrow, Like a Thousand Suns, To Love Is to Know Me) > Status Update
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*Talks about incarnations of god as the Buddha, Jesus, and someone who became one with Allah and gave us the Kuran *
Really, you want to equate a paedophile who married a six year old and groomed her for statutory rapeat 9 or 10 years old as an example of an incarnations of god on earth reminding us what we've forgotten and how to live our lives? Odd choice but okay...
— Jan 30, 2026 01:37PM
Really, you want to equate a paedophile who married a six year old and groomed her for statutory rapeat 9 or 10 years old as an example of an incarnations of god on earth reminding us what we've forgotten and how to live our lives? Odd choice but okay...
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Thinking of Karma as a "hidden auditor" what wisdom for daily living. A hindu version of original sin, but one that gets WORSE the longer you exist through no fault of your own. Sounds like a great way to control an ancient people and to be okay with being a servant/slave in a caste system.
The more I learn about more religions the more apparent it is that they are basically all the same, for better and worse...
— Jan 29, 2026 07:33PM
The more I learn about more religions the more apparent it is that they are basically all the same, for better and worse...
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I don't care you think you're all Rama and no Kama, treating atheists as inferior and "amusing" while thinking you are superior to them shows how stunted you are mentally, what a defective personality you have, and your complete lack of good character.
— Jan 28, 2026 07:32PM
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Again the author shows the typical sanctimonious bias against atheists. "If you believe in yourself then you believe in god." Has to be one of the most absurd irrational arguments I have ever heard.
Counter-point:
"Do you believe love can exist without evidence or is it impossible to believe on faith alone?"
Faith needs evidence.
THEN YOU'RE AN ATHEIST HAHAHAHA Gotcha!
It is just as absurd of an argument.
— Jan 28, 2026 07:22PM
Counter-point:
"Do you believe love can exist without evidence or is it impossible to believe on faith alone?"
Faith needs evidence.
THEN YOU'RE AN ATHEIST HAHAHAHA Gotcha!
It is just as absurd of an argument.
"explaining the Sanskrit concepts and philosophy and applying them with practicality, wisdom, and humor to every aspect of our work, our relationships, and our lives. With everyday anecdotes, stories, and examples, he shows that the changes we long to see in the world start with the transformation of our own consciousness." But all that is predicated on believing in his god, his wisdom is dogma and atheists need not look for answers or advice here.
"divide between scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom" the answer according to the author is science is right when I understand it and it agrees with my worldview, otherwise it's misguided.
This book has reminded me why I only read holy texts themselves without commentary or "wisdom", as any wisdom which necessitates belief in their god and tales is religious dogma.
While I agree with time & space, and energy & matter being the ultimate reality and supreme collective state, and it's the destroyer, facilitator, producer, and container of all events and possible possibilities (akin to Spinoza's panentheism) while being pat of an unending cyclical universe, such as it is talked about in the Gita, deifying such a thing and anthropomorphizing it while claiming it reincarnates and has personal motivations and connections to individual humans is where I draw the line, as such a thing has needs, priorities, and purposes so beyond our understanding that thinking it thinks about us and condescends to interact with us on our level of reality and existence seems as juvenile as thinking a planet is going to disrupt its climate, plat techtonics, and every ecosystem and process or function it does to help an ant with a particularly heavy piece of food...
Buddhism and stoicism are easily stripped of any religious trappings or belief in a god/higher power and can be used for direct self-improvement or realizing direct experiential truths about reality. I am also always skeptical any time any ideology starts making definite claims that they know what happens after death and how to live to be prepared for what's after your death.