Originally posted by Thundar
God is truth. You have the right to subjectively interpret what I have just stated as false, but despite your interpretation, it doesn't change the absoluteness of what I have said.
You didn't say anything. Sure you said god is truth, but that has no real meaning. First what is god to you, then what is truth.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
What I think is that you need to read the previous page again to see what was actually stated.Case in point, the fact that he "related this to his own experience" was never in question. I acknowledged that this was the case when I asked:
To which he replied:
Had he not been making a generalization about Buddhists based on his experiences with Buddhists, he whould have responded, "I am not making a generalization about Buddhists."
Furthermore, since I acknowledged that his argument is based on his experiences, and he conceded that his argument is based on his experiences, where is the misrepresentation?
By all means, illustrate how "truth" is subjective in Buddhism.
This is getting rather ridiculous. It's obvious that you purposely misquoted and misinterpreted what was said. He did not make a generalization, seeing as how he only referred to his own experience, not the experiences of others. This is getting a bit off topic and grossly repetitive, so I'll let this be my final post on this issue.
Originally posted by Thundar
This is getting rather ridiculous. It's obvious that you purposely misquoted and misinterpreted what was said. He did not make a generalization, seeing as how he only referred to his own experience, not the experiences of others. This is getting a bit off topic and grossly repetitive, so I'll let this be my final post on this issue.
How does the inclusion of the prepositional phrase "in my experience," affect whether or not the statement that follows is a generalization?
It does not.
Stating, "In my experience, Christians are foolish," is no less a generalization than stating, "Christians are foolish."
Hopefully, you have sufficiently embarrassed yourself enough not to speak out of turn in the future.