So, do these buddhists introduce themselves with, ''Hello fatty, is your mate still shagging your Mrs?''
I mean, that kind of truthfulness, where you spew absolutely everything?
Not taking the piss or anything, but it doesn't surprise me that the message may take a while to get through.
'These' buddhists?
You yourself could be buddhist.
Asking the question of say: what do buddhists think of________?
Will give you a vast amount of responses as there is no singular school of thought.
The same applies with other religions such as Islam, Christianity and so on.
Asking a Christian if they believe in Abortion, well that individual Quaker will have a complete different view to the other Quaker, never mind the Methodist, Catholic, Roman Cath' and so on and so forth.
One is taught to follow the Eight Fold path.
As you can see here, one is "Right Speech"
And it states say nothing that hurts others.
Now this is very hard to practice, especially when conversing with multiple people on a public forum.
One thing I may say on here many people won't be offended by, yet it may sadly hurt others.
But I cannot predict who is going to see my views and how they may misinterpret or see my views.
We live and we learn.
One of the best ways of learning is by accepting we are imperfect beings and that we do make misstakes ;)
I've only been doing this for a few years now.
I've met people who were born into this way of life and we're schooled from birth.
I'm just trying.