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Been getting chillier in the desert here, it’s not normal weather because usually it is hotter this time in the weather season. Usually by now it is a hundred degrees during the day.
Looking forward to two weeks of paid vaction coming up the beginning of next weekend.
Going to be spending $4000.00 in the next four months on vehicle car repairs alone, feels like my wallet is on fire.
Read reviews first, haus. They’re all jack-legs and flakes. Find the one that has the least number of bad reviews and use them even if their prices are over the top. You can’t afford the risk of finding some guy who’ll ‘give you a good deal’. That’s code for ‘I’m gonna fuck your shit up’
Bite the bullet and find the most expensive one you can find.
The place I go to is an expensive corporate auto mechanics service, they own about fifteen diffetent locations in the nearby city.
Vehicle maintenance is so expensive these days.
History began with a very simple premise. You don’t profit unless you share in the work. This is not philosophy. There is nothing to scratch your beard about here.
But they didn’t take that offer, and they tried to become philosophers so they could deny it and convince you that you are wrong. But that didn’t work, either, because Karl showed up and pwnd them all.
And now here we are having to do things the hard way. But this is precisely what enriches life, this battle.
Now, it could be the case that the christian god exists and the end of dayz is comin’. It would be built into the design.
But what then brings the antichrist into being? When is he supposed to show up? When the time is ripe? When’s that? We’d think that this antichrist is a person, and we know that people, bad people, aren’t just bad ‘out of nowhere’. So we’re looking for circumstances on erf that would produce him.
Kay, so if he came tomorrow, could we say capitalism caused him, or do we have to say capitalism was there, but it didn’t cause him… what caused him is some other thing, a thing that exists capitalism-or-not.
That sounds strange, though, because everything shady going on right now in the world has a capitalist hand in it somehow… can be traced back to some capitalist mechanism and effect. Even about religion and its never-ending wars could we claim that sans capitalism none of this shit would be happening. We can indirectly blame capitalism for preventing circumstances that would end these wars.
Here’s my cool point, what this is leading up to: where do we place christians who are pro-capitalism? Are these people glad that capitalism is bringin’ the fuckin antichrist and the end of dayz? Wouldn’t they have to be (design, remember)?
It’s like Stalin killed a billion people, but my guys are about to kill everyone… YAY!
Holy shit wtf. These people are cooked, bruh.
There’s a reason as a Buddhist I reject Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Too much hypocrisy in all three of those religions. Imagine preaching religious or spiritual peace while crafting a society around economic capitalism. Imagine what kinds of liars that breeds overtime.
I wonder if a whole civilization of Buddhists would practice capitalism or not. That’s a good question. They’ve decided not to reproduce because life is suffering (one wonders how they got there in the first place if they don’t… you know, reproduce) but they don’t wanna commit a Jonestown type mass suicide so they gotta figure out how to conduct their property relations and economics.
Study question: would the principles of a free market - as good as they sound in theory but turn out to be trash in practice - be appealing to the logic of the buddhist?
You’re what would be a moderate american buddhist. These aren’t the level 33 buddhists who don’t reproduce or own anything. You guys just kinda try to keep a laid-backedness in life and hold the door for everyone. That’s fine, but you didn’t need the buddha to encourage you to do this. That shit comes naturally.
So we aks what does the buddha have to offer, other than an eternal death sentence, that we don’t already know. We find that the answer is very little. And worse, his attitude may, in fact, be contrary to real progress if progress were at all possible.
It’s more than that, the kind of Buddhism I am into revolves around mysticism and the esoteric.
I can give you some reading material if you’re sincerely interested.
There’s a difference between Buddhist monasteries full of monks and just regular Buddhist civilian lay people.
I could never do the celibate monk thing obviously which is why I have a wife and several children, puts me squarely into the Buddhist lay people fold. Guess I enjoy the company of women way too much I guess.
Nobody’s a buddhist if you really must know because nihilism can’t be practiced. You can’t practice nothing. Buh dum tshh.
Ascetic is the word you’re looking for. And what is an ascetic if not someone who has grown satisfied with his own poverty? Is this something to be encouraged? I say not.
Even Buddha said society and civilization is a giant illusion my dude.
Satisfied with poverty? China has a higher living standard than the United States currently, how many Buddhists you suppose lives over there?
To be Buddhist is simply to acknowledge the root of all suffering in this world, where it all stems from.
You know a type that irritates me? Those hyper-optimists that would still say “go on, man! You got this! You can do it!” as you’re crawling toward a bunker with your legs blown off by a land mine just after acquiring yellow fever and reading in a letter that your dog of eleven years just died back home. But not ‘just died’. He got mauled by a city bus.
There comes a point where it is truly okay to complain and suggest that shit is pretty bad. Rather, it depends on whose ears hear this and what their estimation of reasonable duress is. The guy cheering our legless friend on isn’t really a good example because anyone smarter than a spatula has to know that must suck. But you know what i mean. Go easy on trying to cheer up someone who is having a bad time. He gets it… and he thanks you for your support… but my god, DOES he need to have his legs blown off before you throw him a bone?
Agreed, people like that are hypocrites.
Like a Christian preaching the everlasting love of God where a majority of them simultaneously support an oppressive exploitative economic system.
No, as a Buddhist we say avoid bad people and hypocrites in general. Find better social companionship if you can.
Perhaps we’re doing what Nietzsche warned about. Being too hard on the christian who does not deserve to be punished on account of his own imbecility… “someone who really can’t count to three” (paraphrasing there).
I agree. That paraphrase is just snooty disinterested aristocrat scholar talk. You know how they lean back in their smoking chairs and role play… one thinks he’s Ceasar and the other, Napoleon, and they review in the third person the whole of civilization and propose with a haughty snicker what is to be done with it.
No. That’s not reality. In reality, we need to be actively engaged in trying to abolish Christianity and its kin. I’m not sitting around a cafe with Fritz all day talking about how genius i am and how nobody can understand me. That much is already known. A truism. Unlike Fritz, i don’t have a pension, and i link Christianity straight to chronic opioid abuse just like Karl and Feuerbach did.
Try to imagine being in the company of someone you absolutely loathed back on erf while sitting in a garden in heaven. The only way to make this tolerable would be if the dude was in full humility mode… like an over-apologetic stoner who lost his keys and is now fiddling around trying to find them. Okay, but then what? This horrible person who back on erf raped and murdered all these people he forced to watch nine hours of Lady Gaga videos first, has just apologized as easily as a guy whose worst sin was not filing his taxes one year. Can this second guy be satisfied with the first guy’s apology? I feel like that no matter how perfect the weather was and how brilliant the gold decor was, they still wouldn’t connect.
If a dude is born again in heaven, then he’s not the same person… and he couldn’t let the other dude know he was a bad dude back on erf for reasons mentioned. But if he is the same person, then he’ll have always done that horrible shit and the sheer distance between him and the tax guy, despite all the apology, prevents a real feeling of community, i think.
Again, at the same time, if you get a reset and are a new person, then everyone is a stranger, and you have no history. You’d be like an amnesia patient sitting in a heavenly medical room wondering who and where you are.
The dilemma of the continuity of the self in the transition into heaven we could call it. On one hand he’s fucked because nobody in the garden will ever wanna chat with em and on the other hand he’s no memory of anything and has suddenly found himself sitting on a gold bench surrounded by lush green flora wearing one of those hospital robes where you can see the guy’s ass crack when he’s walking.
Seriously, think about it. With whom, and how do we chill in heaven? There are people that no amount of sincere apology will ever get them out of my contempt… if only because of how dull or rude or whatever other stupid little turn-off the person is/has. They’d be as uninteresting in heaven as they are here.
Now listen, you all talk a big game about what heaven is and is like so shirley you can describe for us what’s going on up there. Are you with fam? Anyone and everyone? Alone? With angels and heavenly hosts only?
Divulge.
I believe in reincarnation, what is described as heaven is only for the most enlightened souls and even then it’s just temporary not for all eternity.
Much about death we’ll never know about, the final mystery and destination.
The Bible says stuff about that. Maybe you should read it?
Me to you in heaven. #irony
