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Originally Posted by DexLabb
besides, buddhism is simply a coping mechanism. ur basically letting go of ur ego which is effectively a rationalization anyway. if anything, u were forced into these buddhist teachings because u were alone and helpless and picked up on it because it psychologically allowed you to be a loser. u basically empowered urself instead of going out going to the gym, learning to talk to people and improving ur life. buddhism and all religions are a social construct anyway. look at the monks, they have a shit life with no internet. if i didnt have internet ur damn right i would go bat shit crazy
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You may not believe it now, and you can convince yourself subconsciously that life's corporeality are the only pleasantries, but there will come the time when you will find a need to praise those you humiliate, and those with shit lives will become your hero's. As for the social construct, all that which you have been speaking from has been an archetype of social construction. In truth, you will not lose anything having let go of the tangible aspects of existence that you convince yourself are life's joyous aspects. One cannot escape suffering in this life, and one can temporarily numb it and subdue it, but it will only become latent, and since the psycho-neuro- immunological aspects of the body mind spirit complex are connected, one's ignoring of one body (the spirit, one's emotions, what one hasn't let go of, the traumas) is bound to affect the other. You speak of helplessness because you have experienced it, but instead of being empowered by acknowledging your frailty you became scared of it, and build a barricade against it. Sometimes we need to go through helplessness to discover help. Sometimes we go through hopelessness to discover hope.