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RE: What is Life for?

Psudo — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:04:53 -0800

That Buddhist idea of "less than ideal" is the sense of suffering I meant. If you keep rolling dice, you're gonna roll some ones. If you eliminate that risk, you're not really living.

RE: Counter Culture

Zipperfish — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:03:35 -0800

I've certainyl seen this with First Nation cultures in Canada. I was shocked, like probably ever Canadian with a heart, seeign video in 1993 of kids as young as 10 huffing gasoline and shouting at the camera that they wanted to die, on a remote Innu reserve in 1993.

What on earth would cause a 10 year old to destroy themselves like that?

The government, shamed by the odeal, spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a brand new comunity elsewhere and move everyone to it, but the problems just continued.

This speaks to your comment about communities isolating thmsleves or losing their defining trait. The Innu, like other aboriginal peoples in Canada, have adopted a policy of non-assimiliation in order to preserve their identitiy and culture (actually, in Canada, often to preserve their racial purity, but that's another discussion). I would argue that their cultural isolation probably contributed to the problem.

RE: What is Life for?

Zipperfish — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:47:09 -0800

One of my biggest problems with Christianity in general has always been this idea that our existence here is a test, and we are meant to suffer. My brother is a Jehovah Witness and this is what I tell him. Their outlook just seems so bleak to me I told him if I were to join a church it would be one of the holy roller ones where they're all swaying and singing the whole time.

In Buddhism, suffering or Dukkha refers to "a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all existence, all forms of life, due to the fact that all forms of life are changing, impermanent and without any inner core or substance." according to wiki. It doesn't necessarily refer to a mental or physical anguish, so much as a state of things being non-ideal. I can see life being about suffering in that sense, I suppose. Suffering being the gap between the perfction you seek and the imperfection that you are.

But form the Chirstian persepectvie, it's always seemed to me there's an underlying sadness to it.

Keep up the blog! Cheers, Adam

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Re: SILENCE is NOT GOLDEN

nanza — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:02:51 -0700

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Re: Why I Hate Rich Bride Poor Bride

Regina — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:50:22 -0800

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Re: Comment Corner Relaunch...Ideas, Expectations, New Roads

Chumley — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:41:17 -0800

Good to see it up again. Missed your shit. Thumbs up!

Re: NO SATISFACTION at RENO-DEPOT

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Re: HIT ME BABY, ONE MORE TIME

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