Ask a Druze

>Holy Book
Yes. Not to sound edgy, but its literally named the Book of Wisdom (or Truth depending on translation)

How has the chaos in Syria been affecting Druzes?

>God?
Simplest explanation: most people pray as a ritual. For us thinking is the gift God gave us so to simply think and philosophize is praying.
Taking this a step forward God to us is not a being. It is infinite and any attempt we use to define it will always limit it. But God is consciousness. Noetics has some interesting findings that could explain this

The Druze are people who just want to be left alone. We have not allied with any of the major political parties. Even if we did they would deny us or even kill us.
pol loves to hate on muslims so i'll share this tidbit. Aside from Shite, we are the most hated group. They call us apostates of Islam.

Our link with Buddhism is our view on death. It is stated that all our souls go Siin which when literally translated from Arabic means China. Specifically it is the area known today as Tibet. But whats odd is that Siin had an older meaning which was a place far far away. Some question today if that place is actually far in distance, or far in terms of another dimension.

What are your thoughts on christians, muslims, and jews?
(and Zoroastrians if you have an opinion on them).

It almost sounds like a new age religion

before the Lebanese civil war we were just left to our own devices. Afterwards we have grown cautious of Christians (Maronite specifically). Muslims we always had to hide from so we try to just avoid them in general. Jews is an odd one. On the one hand they have allied with us, but on the other we know its just because the rest of the Middle East hates them. It more like they need us now and will dispose of us once they get their way.
Nothing on Zoroastrians though

Siin sounds like one of the old Babylonian gods of the Mazdaeans of lower Mesopotamia, really.

Living where all these competing aggressive 'truths' were trying to outdo and destroy one another must have led to many frustrated thinkers who wished for something better and more cerebral. I'm glad some of yous survived at least. Sounds like I'll have to do some reading up on you. Are the scriptures translated and online?

New age has been riddled with spam though. I agree that there are gems in there that link back to more ancient beliefs. Wish someone could sort out all that bullshit
Our scriptures are very hard to obtain and in fact done this way to avoid corruption. Thus the book of wisdom is kept in Arabic and only those who devote their life to the faith are permitted to read it. This acts as more of a purified well that can't be poisoned by the ill-informed public. The down side is people in our religion know so little about themselves and are mostly ignorant. We even have a name for them which roughly translates to the un-awakened