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I believe the Earth is round, but I also believe that the people who say it's flat are just pranking us.
I can't believe anyone's really that stupid.
The only thing I need validation about is that I don't need validation
I care that people think I don't care what people think. George Carlin. Everyone cares what people think. Even sociopaths brag.
Saying my past was meaningless was said in the past, which would make it meaningless.
Except the past isn't meaningless.
"The inferior man succeeds a figure of authority, a mediocre man succeeds his friend, and a superior man succeeds his enemy"- Hakuin
Men who think they're inferior look up at authority. Men who think they're equal look upon friends as equals. Men who think they're better look down on their enemies.
A flower is not flowery, because it IS a flower.
However, a flower is a flower, therefore it is a flower.
Calling someone completely selfish is, in that moment, completely selfish.
They still have good moments though.
Calling someone a sinner is a sin. No one constantly sins and everyone sins sometimes.
2nd Commandment clarified.
I forgive you so therefore you forgive me.
Or you forgive me so I forgive you. One or the other. But it happened.
I'm trying to match vindictiveness with vindictiveness. Apparently they say you can't fight fire with fire though.
So I have reacted to this wrongly. I have spoken and I am condemned, though if I had stayed silent I would have been damned. I forgive you for anything you've done, and I also forgive myself. Just for today, anyway.
I care so much about your opinion because I'm brainwashed.
I can see it clearly now for the first time. I am completely out of my mind.
Truth without love is not a lie, but you're still being a dick
So the answer isn't to lie. It's to add love to the recipe.
Everyone can choose that they are good. Not just to DO good, but that they ARE good. Not only good just because they exist and take up space, but especially good.
If they don't know that, they'll despair.
The Buddha's Circadian Rhythms were 7 days off and he reset them when he stayed up until the Morning Star arose.
He wasn't enlightened, but he was awake like most things are at dawn.
Telling someone, "you're good because everyone is good," is a good thing to say because it teaches them how meaningless that would make the word, "good."
Everything IS good, but it's good in its particulars, not just because it exists.
Calling someone a sinner is not a sin, because it educates them that there's no such thing as sin through its sheer stupidity
Watch, pretend I'm talking to you: 'Woe to you, sinner!' See how dumb I sound?
I have no regrets, because everything either taught me something or helped someone.
That includes my most horrific moments. And one of your most horrific moments was shaming me for my mistakes. It wasn't regrettable, because it helped me learn that there is no need for regret. There's nothing that I blame you for.
Calling me useless, selfish, and evil taught me that no one is useless, nor selfish, nor evil.
So your comment was also useful, selfless and good. Thank you for being a friend.
Through your disregarding my past you taught me to not disregard my past.
So the moment you did that was also a valuable part of my past.
The only way to know if something isn't truth is to adopt the view that it is.
It's called falsifiability.
No one deserves to have their story be undone.
Stories matter. So does yours. (Winston Churchill and Jordan Peterson's analysis)
The only benefit to Full Lotus is being able to meditate in compact spaces.
Otherwise your legs dangle.
God is an idea that helps us make sense of the worst. Much like a triangle.
Perfect triangles don't exist, but the idea of them helps us figure out good approximations of the truth.
Everyone with a healthy brain has a worst fear. Don't try to eliminate yours, because then a new worst fear will emerge.
Or you'll just have brain damage.
Everything is imperfect, except the idea that everything is imperfect. That is a Perfectly True Idea, which is God.
But those who see God are still imperfect.
My problem is that I take too much responsibility for my actions
And for that I take way too much responsibility. At least at the moment I'm OK.
Never feel ashamed over your feelings for someone, and stop feeling shame if you've been fooled into feeling shame
It's either Eve's fault or Jake the Snake's fault. Also, if I were offered forbidden fruit, I'd rather not do that.
If something isn't your fault, don't feel ashamed about having no regret over it.
On the other hand, if something is your fault and you don't care, shame on you.
If no one is perfect, we don't need to worry.
If no one is forgiven, everyone is forgiven from a different point of view. Some people can see the nuanced monism.
If you say you're enlightened, you're not. If you say you're not, you're also not. If you don't say anything, you're also not.
What's the answer to this riddle?
The universe is a limit. Therefore the universe does not truly exist
Unless the limit is God. Even so.
Don't try to love yourself
There's such a thing as self love, but effort won't get you there. Nothing will.