/lit/ - Literature

>>18232920
>What i laugh the most at is how the hindus can't solve the problem of evil
In 'The Problem of Evil and Indian Thought' by Arthur Herman the author examines various philosophies and religions and he concludes that only Hindu Vedanta satisfactorily meets the conditions needed to solve the problem of evil.
>>18233129
It would have been nice to reply to your silliness earlier but I was at work.

>hen how many things need to be the same? 100%?
Only for complete continuity, not partial continuity
>Well then nothing is ever the same, because everything is in flux.
Consciousness is ever the same for one, change is only detected in things through consciousness, but consciousness doesn't detect change in itself, only in other things. Moreover if everything really was in flux then flux itself would be unchanging and the first part of your sentence would be falsified.
>You're constantly being reborn.
No, I'm not. I'm the same person I was earlier today and yesterday
>Oh, shit, that's... Buddhism... because the idea of a Self is incoherent
Except that it's not, Anatta is incoherent because it can't explain why our sentience is undivided and continuous throughout time
>because everything is changing... fuck...
It's impossible to assert that without contradicting yourself (see above)

>>18233215
>well see around 500BC this dude heraclitus noticed that rivers (like everything else) are constantly in flux because their parts are constantly changing. so all we have to do to repeat this discovery is find anything made up of parts (this describes everything) and look at it.
That's not true, that doesn't describe everything, consciousness is partless, no parts can be identified in consciousness as such but only parts in things other than consciousness are witnessed through consciousness. Shankara refuted atomism btw
>he believes that dogs are made up entirely of atoms and only of atoms because shankara said that only people have atmans.
That's not true, Shankara affirms that animals, plants, bugs etc have an Atman
>is a puppy born two years ago made up of the same atoms as it was two years ago? no, it has entirely cycled through all of the atoms it was born with and has gained new ones.
It's consciousness is the same consciousness

Your posts are hardly making sense, they are getting increasingly incoherent. I get though that on some level it's deliberate because when you argue with wild strawmanning it's more tiresome for the opponent to sift through it to address the implied arguments so you use strawmanning like a protective shield instead of being both honest and straightforward.