How do we make life better for everyone?

[SpeaksForTheTrees]

I don't like to mix books and fire, but totally agree about religions are dangerous.

Well like any uxb device must be defused with great care as not to offend a distinct majority .

 

[SpeaksForTheTrees]

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

Means I threw all the religions in a big bag and came out with a rude awakening .

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

I don't have the answer, clearly, but I like to think about it.

Does anyone here believe that if everyone followed their religion we would have better lives?

While Christians still sin, yes I think the world would be better, with the Holy Spirit indwelling everyone and transforming them, making them more like Jesus through the course of their lives. I guess we'd share more resources, and there'd be more togetherness, a community with shared values and beliefs, etc.

 

[wizanda]

Does anyone here believe that if everyone followed their religion we would have better lives?

Yes, Oneness would unite all religions, and boundaries, as it is all religions, science, and consciousness put together.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

If everyone understands what religion means and not abuse their religion, wed let it be our guide to nature us as we follow the basic tenants of each one: help and love others, unconditional love, elightenment (however defined), and spiritual community in self or with others.

Religion is not dogmatic. If people want to live dogmatic religios, so be. If people want to live free spirited religions, so be. Universal, plural, conventional, whatever so be.

Hopefully it ends with union among diversity.

 

[allfoak]

How do we make life better for everyone?

Simple.

Do something to improve your own life.
This imposes nothing on anyone else, yet improves the life of you and everyone around you.

 

[Useless2015]

Yes.

The basic reason for all of existence is suffering. Pretty much everything we do in life is to alleviate suffering in some way.

The suffering everyone experiences in this world is because almost everyone is clamoring for more. More possessions, more games, more television, more pleasures, more money, more toys, etc. all in a futile attempt to satiate - at least temporarily - that never-ending sense of suffering or discontentment. This desire for more fuels competition (on the personal or local scale) and wars (on the global scale) for the resources needed to support the acquisition of these "things".

Early Buddhism is unique among all prominent religions, as it advocates less instead of more, as the true pathway to ultimate bliss and harmony. I have tested this out for myself, and found it to be true with direct knowledge. The less I own and crave, the less suffering I experience, the happier and more blissful I become.

Imagine if everyone in the world practiced this philosophy, where all we needed are the most minimal of external "things" to support our physical life to further our individual spiritual journeys. No one would care to possessively "own" things, wars would no longer be fought.

Than why do thousands of muslim children get haunted and killed by Buddhist monks????? Buddhism is maybe the worst religion out of all and i am including satanism.

 

[ak.yonathan]

Than why do thousands of muslim children get haunted and killed by Buddhist monks????? Buddhism is maybe the worst religion out of all and i am including satanism.

You do realize that you shouldn't judge a religion by what people who claim to be its adherents do, don't you?

 

[Erebus]

How to make life better for all?

Spoiler: The List

Hm, rely on advancing technology to produce products that take care of hard labor.
End religious liberty and privilege, religions shouldn't have more rights than the people in them.
Destroy currency and the process of money.
Flow a system of jobs and education based on what people want to be and are good at.
Legalize, regulate and engineer common drugs to be either less addictive, less deadly, or both.
Teach children that being discriminatory towards those different than you is wrong, reinforce that with better child care services.
Proper education based around the child in their early years, and what they want to be in later years.
Stop poverty and slavery (going off the no more currency trait), by force if necessary.
Remove the death penalty and create a jail system based around re-education and mental health regulation.
Invest more minds into progress and return the ability to decide who runs a country to the people that vote.
Take away large military forces and replace them with a more advanced form of police.

I suppose there's a lot that can be done, many of which will likely never happen.
Need more listed?

Looks like a pretty decent list to me.

To answer the OP, no I don't think my religion would make life better for everybody. The simple fact is, my religion just isn't right for everybody. I would prefer to see people follow their own path, make their own discoveries and find their own meaning in life. @Deathbydefault made a good list of changes to our current attitudes that would, in my opinion, help more people to do exactly that.

 

[ak.yonathan]

Looks like a pretty decent list to me.

To answer the OP, no I don't think my religion would make life better for everybody. The simple fact is, my religion just isn't right for everybody. I would prefer to see people follow their own path, make their own discoveries and find their own meaning in life. @Deathbydefault made a good list of changes to our current attitudes that would, in my opinion, help more people to do exactly that.

Right, specific religions are only suited for certain groups.

 

[Erebus]

Right, specific religions are only suited for certain groups.

Very true. I would imagine that for somebody who was naturally inclined towards atheism (just as an example) trying to force themselves to follow my religion would do them more harm than good. Better that they find what's right for them (which doesn't have to be any religion at all) and do that.

 

[ak.yonathan]

Very true. I would imagine that for somebody who was naturally inclined towards atheism (just as an example) trying to force themselves to follow my religion would do them more harm than good. Better that they find what's right for them (which doesn't have to be any religion at all) and do that.

I was thinking more along the lines of what adherents will get from those religions. For instance, what people get from following Christianity is different than what people get from following satanism, specifically heaven and hell.

 

[Erebus]

I was thinking more along the lines of what adherents will get from those religions. For instance, what people get from following Christianity is different than what people get from following satanism, specifically heaven and hell.

Ah, I misunderstood you then. I'm approaching this more from a psychological point of view. Some people's mindsets are more suited to one form of religious expression over another.

If I understand you right, you're more concerned with the reward/punishment one might receive in the afterlife?

 

[ak.yonathan]

Ah, I misunderstood you then. I'm approaching this more from a psychological point of view. Some people's mindsets are more suited to one form of religious expression over another.

If I understand you right, you're more concerned with the reward/punishment one might receive in the afterlife?

Yes and no, I believe heaven and hell to happen right here on earth, in the here and now, not just in the afterlife. So in a way yes, I am talking about rewards and punishments. Personally I believe that there are advantages and drawbacks to being in heaven or hell.

 

[Erebus]

Yes and no, I believe heaven and hell to happen right here on earth, in the here and now, not just in the afterlife. So in a way yes, I am talking about rewards and punishments. Personally I believe that there are advantages and drawbacks to being in heaven or hell.

OK, I think I'm with you. I take an agnostic approach to the afterlife personally, but I can definitely see the purpose of seeing heaven and hell as a part of this world

 

[BSM1]

I don't have the answer, clearly, but I like to think about it.

Does anyone here believe that if everyone followed their religion we would have better lives?

Simply try to live your life as you would want others to live theirs.

 

[savagewind]

I don't have the answer, clearly, but I like to think about it.

Does anyone here believe that if everyone followed their religion we would have better lives?

Yes. If everyone believed that the love of God is most important and that a person should learn to be content with what he or she has then
the world would be OK.
I think even atheists can learn that to care about the love of even the least one on Earth would change the world for the better.
Advertising is Earth's number one enemy imo because it is for promoting greed. Greed is bad.

 

[icehorse]

I don't have the answer, clearly, but I like to think about it.

Does anyone here believe that if everyone followed their religion we would have better lives?

I think ALL religions should support one set of universal human rights, including true freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't have the answer, clearly, but I like to think about it.
Does anyone here believe that if everyone followed their religion we would have better lives?

A religion can be read so many ways, there's no telling where it might lead.
Well....actually, it leads to where we are.
Instead, I advise to be considerate, kind, productive, peaceful & safe.

 

[buddhist]

Right, however Buddhism goes against human nature, at least instinctively.

What is "instinctive human nature"? With your argument, it seems you'd be advocating that babies and children should not be trained to grow beyond their instictive behaviors to become adults?

What about those people who have yet to know of Buddhism? Are they doomed? Seems to me like the way to make everyone happy is to install the opposite of Buddhism in reality.

Buddhism is not a set of tenets or doctrines to believe in - it is to be practiced. The observations made and taught by Lord Buddha were keen and precise observations made of the laws of reality. There is no crisis if someone doesn't hear about or read the scriptures of "Buddhism"; they would only need open eyes to perceive and understand the laws of reality immanent around them. Obeying those laws is equivalent to following Buddhism.