Mr Surya Deva,
You have truly perfected the art of putting words into peoples mouths. Congratulations!
Did anyone who is Buddhist ever say the “DESIRE” to reach enlightenment? The answer is NO!
No, but then again do you not have to say it. It is implied. It is obvious to everybody that a Buddhist wants enlightenment. This is the goal of Buddhism. You would not be putting yourself through all that pain sitting long hours in meditation if this was not true. You want enlightenment. Nothing wrong with that, I think myself and Thomas would respect your religious goals more if you were honest about it.
Honesty has been a recurrent theme in my criticisms of your views. Interesting.
Of course we talk about our lives. Enlightenment has not yet been reached. We use I because are are still striving. Striving toward the end of suffering and Nirvana. You seem to be on quite a different path, promoting the suffering of others.
So you use I for practical purposes, but do not believe it exists? If that is the case then why are you emotionally invested in the “I” Why did you react with outrage when I said that your husband is either an imposter or the anatta doctrine is false. You said to me, “My husband has worked his ass off” Why do you react with such great frustration and threaten you will leave the forum and call this sad, if you do not believe there is no you? I am sorry but actions speak louder than words, and it is clear to any objective person you believe in the “I” and are as invested in it, as the average joe.
Again, be honest.
You tutorial about your Buddhist retreat is plagued with errors and misconceptions. One very glaring one is you stating that Buddhists believe in nothingness. That is an absolute falsehood! People who are not familiar with Buddhism often say this along with the nihilism claim. What Buddhists believe is “emptiness” the “void”. This does not mean void of everything. Quite the contrary. It means EVERYTHING. You don’t understand the self FROM A BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE AT ALL.
I am familiar with Shunyatavada(doctrine of void/emptiness) and it is definitely believed that everything is ultimately void. The void is everything. If you dissect any concept, object ultimately you reduce it to nothingness. You can no longer claim I am ignorant of Buddhism. I studied Buddhism at university, I did my exam question on Buddhism and now I have actually lived like a monk in a Buddhist centre for a week.
You have said nothing so far, which shows your knowledge of Buddhism is any more stronger than mine is. The chances are, I know Buddhism better than you do 
And now I will sound like Yulaw who I greatly respect. It was a mistake on my part to write religion. I have, to my defense, stated that there are those Buddhists who believe it is so. I am not one of them.
No worries, I expected this of you Like I said Buddhists are walking-talking contradictions. One moment they say something, the other moment they say the opposite. And this is to be expected from a religion where change is seen as sacred.
However, for the reasonable person somebody who does not have a stable and coherent viewpoint has no credibility. Why should I, or any other reasonable person, take you seriously, when you yourself do not take anything you say seriously.
After all you do not exist, so why should I take anything seriously by somebody who does not exist
I gave a reasonable answer. More times than I can count.
In your mind that maybe the case, but in actuality you have still not answered our simple question: Who is the one that remembers the changes and remembers themselves as the person who witnessed those changes over 50 years?
An objective reader can clearly see now that Buddhism is a religion and the Buddhists posting here are religious. The Buddhists have lost this debate
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