Buddhism annoys me. The world is burning while you meditate. Then some will say “oh, but detachment, detachment is the way”. Yeah, sure, while you’re so focused on getting detached, other people will start to burn, and soon will you. The world doesn’t need any inherent meaning when you’re focused on alleviating suffering, on helping others. That’s why I’ve come to respect Christianity way more, despite all its flaws. There’s way worst stuff out there than our rare-comfort-oasis-induced existential crisis. Way, way worse. When that gets greatly reduced I’ll care about getting in tune with existence then.
Nietzsche was super right about this. “Anyone who claims that “everything is fake!”, let him swallow up a frog and watch it all go away in a second”.
That’s true. I’ve always thought that Buddhism’s concepts were great but then the ideal Buddhist would be someone who spends his entire life meditating. I saw a documentary on it, and the monks would receive all of their food from donations. If everyone was a Buddhist, no one would have anything to receive as donations. There would be no donations because there’s no one there to do any work. Therefore I believe Buddhism is flawed, but it’s ideas are still useful and so they should be practiced to a certain degree.
Buddhism annoys me. The world is burning while you meditate. Then some will say “oh, but detachment, detachment is the way”. Yeah, sure, while you’re so focused on getting detached, other people will start to burn, and soon will you. The world doesn’t need any inherent meaning when you’re focused on alleviating suffering, on helping others. That’s why I’ve come to respect Christianity way more, despite all its flaws. There’s way worst stuff out there than our rare-comfort-oasis-induced existential crisis. Way, way worse. When that gets greatly reduced I’ll care about getting in tune with existence then.
Nietzsche was super right about this. “Anyone who claims that “everything is fake!”, let him swallow up a frog and watch it all go away in a second”.
That’s true. I’ve always thought that Buddhism’s concepts were great but then the ideal Buddhist would be someone who spends his entire life meditating. I saw a documentary on it, and the monks would receive all of their food from donations. If everyone was a Buddhist, no one would have anything to receive as donations. There would be no donations because there’s no one there to do any work. Therefore I believe Buddhism is flawed, but it’s ideas are still useful and so they should be practiced to a certain degree.
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