Reality sucks.

[Sisifo]

Think about it. No, seriously.

Think about any person you have ever met? Strangers on a train, dead relatives, school teachers etc.
What are they? They are just neurons firing an electomagnetic pulse somewhere deep inside your brains.
Even everything you have ever done! It's nothing. It no longer exists. It's now only a spark of electricity stored in one single lump of meat. When that lump of meat dies, it's gone forever.
To some guy in the street, that's all I am to him...
When I die, that's all I will be to everyone I know.
When they die, I will not even be a memory.

Reality sucks.

That is a marvelous liberating thought. That everyone is a ghost only tangible to oneself, that our existence is but a thread of smoke in the wind, and only our acts remain...
It frees you from fear and the entrapment of self conscience.

[Rum]

It is liberating, though of course it is also, if one lives by this rather than having occasional flashes of insight, rather demotivating. Ambition, achievement, advancement, all become something different and non-ego related. It might explain why Buddhist societies, until Capitalism became ubiquitous tended to be rather un-interested in such things.

[Daan]

It is liberating, though of course it is also, if one lives by this rather than having occasional flashes of insight, rather demotivating. Ambition, achievement, advancement, all become something different and non-ego related. It might explain why Buddhist societies, until Capitalism became ubiquitous tended to be rather un-interested in such things.

Buddhists wouldn't say reality sucks. It is something judeo-christian. Shakespeare simply repeats the Bible.

[JimC]

Yes, But death is a release from earth bound body, this life, and all its problems.No more hassle not a bad deal is it, when you look at it that way.

That indeed is how I hope to see it, as the shadow grows...

[Rum]

It is liberating, though of course it is also, if one lives by this rather than having occasional flashes of insight, rather demotivating. Ambition, achievement, advancement, all become something different and non-ego related. It might explain why Buddhist societies, until Capitalism became ubiquitous tended to be rather un-interested in such things.

Buddhists wouldn't say reality sucks. It is something judeo-christian. Shakespeare simply repeats the Bible.

Well you might care to read the thread. I didn't actually say it did. Buddhists would say that it is an illusion, as to my way of thinking it is. Nor did I quote Shakespeare.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.


(I can't believe nobody posted that yet.)

[Daan]

It is liberating, though of course it is also, if one lives by this rather than having occasional flashes of insight, rather demotivating. Ambition, achievement, advancement, all become something different and non-ego related. It might explain why Buddhist societies, until Capitalism became ubiquitous tended to be rather un-interested in such things.

Buddhists wouldn't say reality sucks. It is something judeo-christian. Shakespeare simply repeats the Bible.

Well you might care to read the thread. I didn't actually say it did. Buddhists would say that it is an illusion, as to my way of thinking it is. Nor did I quote Shakespeare.

Yes, i see. I guess i saw too much in your text.