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Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:59 am
by DiegoSapiens
When i finish my exam im going to look for something in the library about buddhist and maybe i start a thread about it, interesting topic.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:00 pm
by garethom
Please don't.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:00 pm
by Laszlo
garethom wrote:Please don't.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:02 pm
by Nihilism
garethom wrote:Please don't.
Buddhism isn't a religion, it's a way of life. Plus, it's all about the freedom of speech. As long you don't bring pain to others, you're allowed to think based on your experiences and interpretations.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:03 pm
by DiegoSapiens

well you dont have to read it
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:09 pm
by Nihilism
DiegoSapiens wrote:
well you dont have to read it
Go to the library and ask for the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, u will see that reading the book will enlighten the mind of the poison we have received from Babylon.
Don't doubt me.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:09 pm
by lovelydivot
I have a long, semi-real world analogy for you guys
that touches on some of my issues
Ok - I was watching a television show about Candy Spelling - and the mansion she built
and the part that struck me as just flat out retarded and irresponsible
was that she had something like - 26 acres hardscaped with imported italian limestone.
Right off the bat - She could have paid a crew of 12 landscapers to maintain a
- completely illustrious garden -
had them employed for the rest of their lives - and for half the price
She could have...paved 6 acres and supplied a re-emerging downtown
with 10 city blocks of - low rent spaces for boutiques, restuarants, small business, and art galleries
exp. as self-centered as this may be...someone like myself
- could have 300 sq ft of space to show my work...and the work of others on a rotating basis
So flash back to actual reality...and I'm at school doing a project
Where we have to cut a piece of stone into cabachons...1 round and 1 oval
and so I get some Mexican Crazy Lace Agate
and as I'm grinding the stones under water
It's creating a blood colored slurry
My hands are cover in "blood" - The water is tinged in "blood"
and I have to keep stopping and washing everything down because it looks horrific
and I'm thinking - this is wrong
and I look back at the italian limestone cutters...Who supplied Candy Spelling
And now I'm the enemy- reaching for the plastics
So she better order some Babylonian grade walls to go with that
Because she's cutting me up...in so many ways.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:16 pm
by magma
lovelydivot wrote:I have a long, semi-real world analogy for you guys
that touches on some of my issues
Cool, does it have anything to do with discussing the number one problem with humanity?
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:20 pm
by Muncey
Nihilism wrote:DiegoSapiens wrote:
well you dont have to read it
Go to the library and ask for the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra
And record the librarians reaction to your attempt of pronouncing that mother.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:21 pm
by Nihilism
Takin' the DSF trollin' to a 4Chan level.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:23 pm
by DiegoSapiens
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:29 pm
by lovelydivot
I'm all for people acheiving their own stuff....but seriously
How much does a single person need....
I would much rather take part in bringing - even if it's just for viewing pleasure
Life Pleasure - to many, many more people.
and stop fucking up the earth...
stop eating tuna for 5 years...eat fried sweet potato sushi instead
everyone - tuna fishermen need to be supported during the moratorium
They need to figure this out...I don't know
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Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:41 pm
by lovelydivot
Not everything worth doing - is going to be profitable...
and the inverse.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:47 pm
by AllNightDayDream
Our fear of feeling, or more importantly showing our feelings.
We're so deathly afraid of being laid out in exhibition to our peers because we know some will sneer. As time rolls on and society represses the wailing, laughing, screaming, multidimensional men and women inside us till they forget what sunlight feels like, we become those who sneer. We cling to identity presets to stave off the terror of actually becoming an individual, thrusting our limbs out into the elements and utilizing that large portion of the brain that stays dormant most our lives. We collect, and conform. We then look down at the others in their cute little presets, fighting and sneering, but save the deepest disgust for those who have the audacity to face what none of us can, who fearlessly smile and love life as they love themselves in their unique naivete, and infect everyone with their individual brilliance, while we throw proverbial tomatoes at their stage, deep inside wishing that we could be that soiled, crazy diamond screaming upon that rickety stage.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:22 pm
by lovelydivot
magma wrote:lovelydivot wrote:I have a long, semi-real world analogy for you guys
that touches on some of my issues
Cool, does it have anything to do with discussing the number one problem with humanity?
Although I am slated to become the First President of the World....
I was trying not to be assumptive and speak for all of humanity....
...But living standards are too polarized and we are not respecting the earth.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:25 pm
by magma
lovelydivot wrote:magma wrote:lovelydivot wrote:I have a long, semi-real world analogy for you guys
that touches on some of my issues
Cool, does it have anything to do with discussing the number one problem with humanity?
Although I am slated to become the First President of the World....
I was trying not to be assumptive and speak for all of humanity....
...But living standards are too polarized and we are not respecting the earth.
PICK ONE
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:38 pm
by butter_man
Nihilism wrote:garethom wrote:Please don't.
Buddhism isn't a religion, it's a way of life. Plus, it's all about the freedom of speech. As long you don't bring pain to others, you're allowed to think based on your experiences and interpretations.
"if you want pleasure and to be at ease 'believe, if you want truth 'inquire' ." loose quote.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:45 pm
by kay
DiegoSapiens wrote:kay wrote:DiegoSapiens wrote:Pedro Sánchez wrote:Optimism is hard wired, it's why we take risks, it has been one of the driving forces of our evolution.
And has the evolution been positive for us? We should still live in tribes...
We do live in tribes. The similarities between tribes living in jungles and tribes living in cities are perhaps masked or not always obvious, but they are there.
nah don´t get confused with that urban tribe term, i agree that we still have some legacy of our instincts and is fun to find paralelism in some actitudes that haven´t changed , but our lifestyle is completly mutated from the tribesman life.
The majority of people in urban environments spend their days looking/working for food, create a territory of their own, chill with their friends, play, fuck, breed and eventually die.
The majority of people in tribes spend their days looking/working for food, create a territory of their own, chill with their friends, play, fuck, breed and eventually die.
The particular circumstances may be slightly different (working to get money to buy food vs working to find food, perhaps somewhat better mortality rates) but I would say that a good proportion of urban humanity conducts itself no differently than non-urban humanity. You are just romanticising the concept of living in a pre-urban tribe.
m8son wrote:Yeah i do although i realise most of that wonder comes from me idolising the future.
What i mean is that there is no ultimate reason to live. No god to please and no heaven to gain entry to. In 200 years time it will matter not if we lived our lives to the full and saw or did many great things or whether we sat in our bedroom and watched telly all day.
Perhaps that all depends on whether you find a ultimate reason to live - not sure why god or heaven have to exist. I would agree that seeing/doing things that have no impact on the future of the world would be not much different from sitting in the bedroom all day watching telly. Therefore, I'd say that the best way for a life to have meaning would be if it resulted in a better future.
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:48 pm
by titchbit
sometimes snh looks like the rest of the internet....
Re: What is the number one problem with the human race and w
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:56 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
dubunked wrote:sometimes snh looks like the rest of the internet....
switch back to the older theme mate.
