Would it be terribly rude for me to point out that … you guys are making up a lot of shit about Buddhism?
I don’t know much about Buddhism, so it’s plausible that I garbled davidad’s original point. In particular, upon reflection I think he was more drawing a loose analogy than claiming to describe key features of either branch of Buddhism. I’ve edited the comment above to reflect this, since I don’t want to accidentally ascribe to him a less sensible position than he has.
I don’t know much about Buddhism, so it’s plausible that I garbled davidad’s original point. In particular, upon reflection I think he was more drawing a loose analogy than claiming to describe key features of either branch of Buddhism. I’ve edited the comment above to reflect this, since I don’t want to accidentally ascribe to him a less sensible position than he has.