But feeding adults who are sound of body, this is often immoral: it robs them of their own moral duties to themselves, It fosters the degeneration of their soul, it degrades them and it makes you an accomplice
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“I want to feed the hungry so they will be able to grow spiritually later”. Bullshit. You want to feed them so you can feel superior to them, and also to your friends, who are not as charitable as you
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For fucks sake they have effective altruist conventions where “altruists” get together to brag about how selfless they are. Did you know pity is the same emotion as contempt?
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Always and at all times, multiplying the number of mankind is multiplying suffering. You think saving lives is good and suffering is bad? Just look at yourself.
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Even rationalist EAs know that suffering is good, it’s why they teach the parable of the wirehead, a cognitive dissonance that keeps them up at night: wireheading bad but suffering bad? Uh oh.
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If you really think suffering is bad you should try to immanentize the eschaton. Only the death of all humans will bring the end of all suffering.
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The only reason Buddhists don’t commit suicide (aside from obvious evolutionary imperatives) is their belief in reincarnation.
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Instead they try to sit still and eliminate all cognitive activity from their mind, like a rock. Rocks are the pinnacle of enlightenment, no suffering, no mental chatter at all. I can prove it with an EEG
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Common misconception. It's not that there is cognitive activity, it's that identification with the egoic identity that accumulates as a result of cognitive activity is painful and prohibits clear perception which leads to metal illness. Quietism is a perversion of true practice.
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Suffering takes on a different character when it happens the same way a breeze or thunderstorm happens and doesn't become enmeshed as an identity. Next time you have a headache, go into it, not pull away etc. You're Increading the developmental aspect of suffering.
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Anyway I'm heretical Zen priest and not a Buddhist proper. Zen isn't concerned with elimination of suffering (lol) but with pure being.
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