Buddhism
Advantages:
1. If you like to travel and discover different cultures, choose this option. You will have access to low cost flight tickets in space and time through reincarnation (no airport taxes!).
2. Enlightenment must be really cool. No more greed, hate or delusion. No insistence, jealousy or anger. Just picture yourself, sitting on a cloud in the Nirvana, drinking Coca Cola and watching the Winter Olimpics without any disturbing emotions or desires while your girlfriend is getting exhaustively acquainted with your best friend in Bora Bora. Wouldn’t it be nice? (Don’t say that I have a primitive concept of Enlightenment, please. I have a Masters degree in sociology.)
Disadvantages:
1. That karma thing. It truly sucks. Just think about those times when you scared the hell out of your little brother, making him believe that Mum turns into Freddy Krueger while he is sleeping. What if he will give all that misery back to you next life when you will reborn as his electronic toothbrush?
2. Meditation. There is nothing more frustrating than sitting in one position motionless for hours, furthermore it can cause you serious health problems. Believe me, I have been doing it for half a year and as my knees necrotized, the doctors decided to amputate both of my legs. (This was the moment when I got closer to God. If there was a Buddha, it would never have let this happen.)
