@timur,
igm wrote:
To talk to a JW about his beliefs which are obviously about the JW doctrine itself.
This was my only reason for coming to this thread. Setanta asked me something without an invitation to do so and made it clear he had no interest in finding out about Buddhism.
timur wrote:
This is the archetype of a religionist trying to evade the question.
Show me how you can draw that conclusion from my post to you?
timur wrote:
Those are two different matters as everyone interprets his religion as he wishes.
What are the two different matters? Buddhism is about what the Buddha taught not about how an individual understands it as that changes over time and could be a misunderstanding of those teachings.
timur wrote:
One of the main goals of buddhism (or even the only one) is enlightenment.
What is the purpose of enlightenment? If the goal is that why is that the goal?
timur wrote:
But if your premise is that I don't know what enlightenment means why do you want discuss buddhism?
It is not my premise show me a quote where I've said it is? One of the goals is to understand what the Buddha meant by the term.
The Buddha said, 'I teach only one thing, suffering and how to put an end to it', everything else was an explanation of how to do it.