Goodness @odysseus!
I’m so confused right now
Did I write this?!
Dear me... where?
I tried clicking on the quotation but it’s not linked.
You know damn well you didn't write it, why act like an absolute dumbo about it ?Hermit Philosopher wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:37 pm
Goodness @odysseus!
I’m so confused right now
Did I write this?!
Dear me... where?
I tried clicking on the quotation but it’s not linked.
Hermit Philosopher wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:37 pm
Goodness @odysseus!
I’m so confused right now
Did I write this?!
Dear me... where?
I tried clicking on the quotation but it’s not linked.
I did do that, didn't I. Apologies. But then, it did give you pause.....that silence where expectation sits there, unconsummated, and the world sits there, waiting for Godot. Here, one's attention becomes unfixed (unhinged?). I have a theory about this: suffering does just this: it puts an end to the dull repetition of one's affairs and the spontaneous reproduction of all that is learned by rote and recollection, and causes one to pull out and question! The question: the "piety of thought" (a borrowed phrase).Hermit Philosopher wrote
Oh, now I see what’s happened!
odysseus: you accidentally quoted Dontaskme as if they were I
I thought I was going mad there for a minute - haha!
No worries, all good.
Humbly
Hermit
To me, all it takes is one. We could have a billion blissful children waking up in heaven every day for eternity, and just that one struggling in misery, and the whole damn apple cart turns over.Walker wrote
Really? I’d say thick as a brick and dim as the dark side of the moon to not incorporate human brutality into the equation of being.
Nah! You go too far. Lots of people have a great time in life, and sail out on a golden parachute of pain relieving narcotics.Dontaskme wrote
I've been there, but discovered it wasn't enough, I had another awakening, it was a total shocker.. it was to realise that something can be done here rather than just keep turning a blind eye to what's really going on, we have the knowledge to do the sensible thing, we have the capacity to think very seriously about the possible reality that there really is an escape hatch out of this mess.
The higher insight for me, is to put an end to the pointless senselessness of sentient life. That's the only positive for this negative reckless agressive, parasitic, canabalistic dog eat dog struggle for life. Life is a fail, it's a very bad experiment gone horrifically wrong. Evolution screwed up big time.
The only intelligence in the universe is the human primate, the onus is on us to end this insanely expensive stupidity.
That's one way of seeing it.
I do like and admire your enthusiasmodysseus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:10 pmNah! You go too far. Lots of people have a great time in life, and sail out on a golden parachute of pain relieving narcotics.Dontaskme wrote
I've been there, but discovered it wasn't enough, I had another awakening, it was a total shocker.. it was to realise that something can be done here rather than just keep turning a blind eye to what's really going on, we have the knowledge to do the sensible thing, we have the capacity to think very seriously about the possible reality that there really is an escape hatch out of this mess.
The higher insight for me, is to put an end to the pointless senselessness of sentient life. That's the only positive for this negative reckless agressive, parasitic, canabalistic dog eat dog struggle for life. Life is a fail, it's a very bad experiment gone horrifically wrong. Evolution screwed up big time.
The only intelligence in the universe is the human primate, the onus is on us to end this insanely expensive stupidity.
But that about the one suffering: in the midst of many gleefully dancing through life, to wake up and see the importance of the one takes moral insight and compassion and empathy to realize. It takes an evolved moral being to see how important this is. We are not stones to be counted, not potatoes in sacks, but each one is this whole, sensitive, thinking, interiority, a stage of human dramatic affairs. How important is one? Say you've been declared a witch to be burned at the stake. Tomorrow morning. How "important" is this? This is what the "one" is.
I think this is too important to go batshit nihilist. There must be a redemptive dimension to our "being here".
I can see it many ways, some positive - some negative.Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:23 pmThat's one way of seeing it.
In this Universe/life/experience of vast possibilities... as potential is explored and played out on a stage, perhaps?... the glorious and the horrific...
How could there be only one way of seeing anything?
Why would anyone see in only one way?
No not really, I've been closing my eyes for too long, being in denial.
Denial of what? Is there a singular conclusion/reality/truth?
Well, two things: #1 - A lot of people on this forum say such a thing. #2 - I want to hear your shocking reality in case any of it rings true for me.
I understand. This forum is less about exploring ideas with genuine and open curiosity and logic, and more about arguing against the lies and nonsense of delusional whackjobs and toxic assholes.