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Ok Impenitent, just keep playing with the definition of words, and bend them so much that they no longer have any value. Oh wait, you’ll say, they had no value in the first place or some other nonsense. Have fun.
As far as nirvana, maksha, etc. goes, I’m not striving for paradise. Who said nirvana implied paradise? It implies grooving with the eternal now. I know that sounds a bit confusing, but it is meant to be. To know is not to know, after all. I would however be interested in your theory of nirvana being a lie, an actual explanation instead of such bold statements that offer no insight.
So you don’t need to eat, to sleep? I would have defined a need as anything necessary for survival. Please tell me, what is your definition of need?
If there is no standard of “enough” then couldn’t you also say that any amount is also too little? Oops, you forgot that one. So I could also say that every action is motivated by un-greed. Interesting how that works out with your non-existance of a standard for “enough”.
Care to translate your last comment?
I always do… the definition game is all there is…
keep on groovin…
…I forgot nothing… you simply make my point… there is no standard and you are driven by greed to avoid your “too little” amount.
whatever will be, will be…
but if you really thought it pointless, you wouldn’t have replied.
-Imp
are we really stupid? Then it is the universe’s fault. it has not blessed us with sufficient information in our natural environments or in our skulls. But intelligence is a weird thing… It does a lot of damage and a lot of good at the same time. Thus the balance on earth sort of just always stays the same. But we need “clever” people and “dumb” people to make the world work. That, my dear sweeties, is why we are still partially stupid.
So there you have it, people are dumb and clever because of universal laws which ultimately make the world work as an ongoing system.
Ahh, now I remember the song. Anyway, what you said is still going in a circular motion that contradicts motivation being greed. Like you said, there is no standard right? Therefore, if you are driven by green to avoid a too little amount, you are also must be in avoidance of a too much amount, no? It’s pretty easy to see this… people for instance, obviously have this vague standard in them. When someone eats, they don’t just keep eating and keep eating, if the food supply is infinite. If that were the case no one could live, because they would immediately die, ingesting themselves with too much food, because there was no regulation, or standard in the body, to know when was too much, or when you are adequately full. It goes the other way around, you obviously know when you hungry, or when there is too little food or nutrients in your body.
why do you think gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins?
and if people naturally knew not to be gluttonous they would know when to stop… but they are driven by greed…
they do not know when to stop for their natural drive is for excess…
will they stop when eating is no longer beneficial or pleasurable? most likely… but that isn’t done for some anti-greed moral good… it is done for purely greedy hedonistic reasons…
-Imp
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“Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.”
Julius Caesar
Cesare Borgia
Niccolo Machiavelli
I smell Nietzsche, to borrow from detrop.