>>207620912>As it should be, it's a religion.Funny.
>>207621427>That's why I don't see a particular difference between the greeks and "modern" philosophyOk, I always called "Modern philosophy" philosophy from the Greeks and onward.
That's what I meant anyway.
>>207621544>>207620912It was a necessity, but you have to know the history of India to know where Buddhism came from.
India was ruled by the Indo-Iranians, they brought the Veda's but more importantly the caste system, ultimately enslaving the lower castes via religion.
Even dying wouldn't mean freedom, because you needed a lot of karma to go up a scale.
The Buddha then 1. created Buddhism and 2. created sanghas (small communities in the people could live free) albeit still by the rules prescribed by the Buddha as in the 8 fold path/ the rules of the Sangha.
It was in these Sanghas that the Buddha started to teach about his views on reality, life, death, etc.
These were views he gathered by studying under elder sages and the insights he achieved during his life as an wandering ascetic.
The man was like a Diogenes, but more proper.
And that's why you needed to meditate, yoga etc.
There was so much suffering that you needed to clear your mind.
All the esoteric religious stuff (minus again, reincarnation) was added later.
Buddhism was a critique of/response to a religion, but not really a religion by itself.
I have never explained the history of India in so few words btw.
>real Jesus No, that story is impossible to have happened, because Pontius Pilate wasn't even present in Judea during that time
>Mohammed Most likely existed
>MosesA story that exists out of many older stories present in the region.
Could be based on Akenaten's push to monolatry from a polytheist religion (and then mixed with ancient Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian myths) or so I think.
>BuddhaMost likely existed
