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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

    I'm not suicidal, but what if I told you, that I don't want to live in a world...

    6:28 PM - 17 May 2018
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      2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        ...where the only way to live a normal life is to follow the rules of a broken system?

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      3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        ...in which we throw out more food than would take to feed the hundreds of millions of others who are starving?

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      4. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        ...where the only way to stay connected is through electronic devices that are virtually exclusively made possible through the exploitation of other human beings, many of them children?

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      5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        ...where the rich care more about extra square footage for their pool than about building shelters for the homeless and those displaced by war, disease, and climate change...

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      6. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        ...where the politicians care more about their lust for power than they do about building a just system?

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      7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        ...where the only way at all to stay sane is to live in an invention of personal and social narratives that continually hide all of these facts from our consciousness?

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      8. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        If I didn't want to live in such a world, could you blame me? If I didn't want to live in it so much that I thought it a moral obligation to commit suicide so as to stop taking part in it, could you blame me?

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      9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        When you start to see through the stories you've been living in for your entire life - that you're special, that the universe cares about you, that things naturally work out, that you deserve the privilege that you were born with...

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      10. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        ...it becomes harder to not see these facts more and more clearly throughout your waking life.

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      11. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17

        So no, everything isn't fucking perfect, and the universe isn't sending you positive vibes, man. Life can be beautiful, that's true. But human life has mostly been shit, because humans have mostly been shit.

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      2. Mimetïc Value‏ @MimeticValue May 17
        Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

        Mimetïc Value Retweeted Mimetïc Value

        The synchronicity is unbelievable. I saw your tweet right after I posted mine here. Similar themes in these threads.https://twitter.com/MimeticValue/status/997287410751897601?s=19 …

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        Mimetïc Value @MimeticValue
        If I'm found dead, it's not a suicide. Research the shit out of it. Jesus may have died for your sins, but Socrates died for your sins even before Jesus. Since then, we have all just been mimicking them.
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      3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 17
        Replying to @MimeticValue

        Whoa.

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      2. randodave‏ @randodave May 17
        Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @MimeticValue

        If you kill yourself, you won't be here to experience anything, good or bad. Your being will cease. This world is all your being ever was going to be..there never was any "better world" that's a figment of your imagination. Might as well stay here & experience it for duration./1

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      3. randodave‏ @randodave May 17
        Replying to @randodave @Failed_Buddhist @MimeticValue

        Your being,& the external world that is contained within it as you experience it,is inextricable from totality of "you".Might as well take ownership of that since this is a single choice exam to which we accept the answer, of what is continuously revealed,by fact of our being. /2

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      4. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 18
        Replying to @randodave @MimeticValue

        That's all nice and well, but none of this negates the truth of suffering, and if someone finds that truth to be too much to bear, then it is immoral to try to convince them otherwise. But, again, as I said, I'm not actually suicidal. I was using this to make a point.

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      5. randodave‏ @randodave May 18
        Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @MimeticValue

        "If someone finds that truth to be too much to bear" is not the finding-so in itself an act of free choice? "Nothing is good or bad, only thinking makes it so..." Therefore, it cannot be immoral to discuss the possibility of re-orienting one's attitude and accepting the /1

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      6. randodave‏ @randodave May 18
        Replying to @randodave @Failed_Buddhist @MimeticValue

        suffering as the worthwhile cost of being, for being and experiencing is a good in itself. I suppose I take a leap of faith in believing so. /2

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      7. randodave‏ @randodave May 18
        Replying to @randodave @Failed_Buddhist @MimeticValue

        Aristotle is an influence here in this leap. Existence is a good in itself, perhaps because every being is a potential for further good and flourishing according to the creator's design. /3

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      8. Mimetïc Value‏ @MimeticValue May 18
        Replying to @randodave @Failed_Buddhist

        I think suffering is important, but existence is more important. Existence is suffering + non-suffering.

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      9. randodave‏ @randodave May 18
        Replying to @MimeticValue @Failed_Buddhist

        Existence is fundamental, the necessary "stage" upon which "good" and "bad" are able to emerge, without which they will not. There is no good or bad without existence, and so to eliminate existence is not to correct the imbalance of badness/suffering to goodness, but to /1

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