life is making me into a buddhist
buddhism is making me into a hedonist (like, cmon, buddhists won't admit, but they haven't figured it all out)
hedonism is making me into a rationalist scifi hardworking obsessive nerd (none of that dumb hedonism shit) #activelife
I'm confused
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ok, shills get karma?
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Karma doesn’t really have a 1:1 correspondence to anything.
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I know that karma is real, I'm just teasing you could say it has correspondence with reality or being heh, words...
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an overly literal translation of the word is "action" or maybe "causation". an overly metaphysical (and Manichaean) interpretation might equate Karma with Sin. I have a different favored translation/interpretation. Karma is history.
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I have a sense that karma is externalities
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interesting, go on...
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The consequences of actions, often unintended, for better or for worse, whereupon if you do something destructive, it increases Bad in a nonspecific, perhaps nonlocal sense, and if you do something edifying, it increases Good in a nonspecific, perhaps nonlocal sense
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you mean this as actual truth or more as pragmatic/Petersonian truth?
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oh, yeah, I actually wasn't talking anything about guilt (maybe I'm a cunt, eh), work is part of hedonism project, clumsy how I categed hedonism into dumb and smart version buddhism pushes me towards hedonism not because of suffering but because smth just seems off, anti LIFE...
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well, I guess you can call the whole process tantric meditation
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