[Perndog]

Ok, everyone get out of flame mode and try to think for a second. You grab one sentence out of context and start to tear apart an argument that wasn't even made. Vince didn't say there's no proof that Buddhism existed in history, he told everyone he knew how it started. He was talking about how nothing has ever happened to prove that the Buddhists are correct in their philosophy, and I fully agree. It's just a bunch of mystical transcendental nonsense that aims to detach adherents from real life and waste all of their earthly potential through self-denial and a search for some abstract notion of enlightenment that never seemed to really benefit anyone anyway. Did you ever have a little bird or a squirrel come to you and make you wise? Are you enlightened, and if you are, were the years and years of utterly bland existence worth it?