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Calling someone unenlightened is unenlightened

 So I suppose I am unenlightened. 
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Shaming someone is shameful, but unforgiveness is not unforgivable.

Nothing is unforgivable.
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The Buddha did get angry and yell at people even after his enlightenment. Those who say, "No, it wasn't anger, he was just being protective" are like a parent saying, "I'm not yelling at you!"

 Let's face it, they're yelling. That doesn't mean it doesn't come from deep compassion though. 
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I've always wanted to not hurt anyone, but I suppose it wasn't out of a higher motive. If other people hurt each other it doesn't matter to me very much. I just want to be the apex of morality, so that I'm a champion.

 I guess that's not very moral at all then is it?
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It's not what it isn't.

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There's no forgiveness in this world, but there is forgetting. Everything you do, good and bad, will be forgotten

 Try not to do any more of the bad things that people will have to forget.
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I'm trying to make a time machine so I can go back and prevent myself from being born. But if I do that I'll never be able to make the time machine.

 Please help me resolve this paradox in the comments so that I can do that.
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It's not evil to not think you're evil

 Nor does it mean one likes someone to not think they like someone. Nor is one evil for not thinking they're evil. Nor is one selfish for not thinking they're selfish.
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It's never crazy to not think you're crazy.

 But it might be crazy to scream it.
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If someone thinks you're not at all trustworthy, then you don't need to be trusted to talk to them ever again.

Don't let anyone associate with who they consider a fool.
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Eminem was doing an homage to Jesus Christ when he said, "I am, whatever you say I am, if I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the papers, the news, every day I am."

 "I don't know it's just the way I am."
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If people want to pretend you're something you're not, then pretend they're not pretending to do that.

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The moon can never fully dispel the dark. Only the light of day can do that.

 Break into the dawn. 
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It's all a bit like straw, but best not to do a strawman argument against such a thing.

 "Don't even know what that means. Must remember to write it down" - Rosetta Stoned
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Buddhists like to dismiss renunciation, even though renunciation is the final step before complete, everlasting freedom from suffering.

 At least, that's if you take the Buddha's word for it.
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God loves everyone. God wouldn't even hate the devil, even if the devil wouldn't realize that.

 Which is why the devil has no power, authority, or significance.
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Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day and thank you immeasurably. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime and take all the credit with all sorts of fish stories.

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First proud, then ashamed, then renounced.

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One does not take pride in an impermanent self, because being labile is never satisfying.

One never takes ownership of a personality that always changes, because it is automatically embarrassing.
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Yes, there may be an impermanent self, but it is automatically unpleasant by virtue of this impermanence.

It's nice to have character. Never is there pride over an unstable self.
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It's not that comparing to others is immoral... it's that it's illogical, since one can't know others' minds.

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Anatta is accepting that when people say, "You've changed, I miss the old you"... they're right.

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People have an evolutionary bias towards taking the space someone else is occupying as opposed to empty space.

 That's why you have to not acknowledge anyone's existence so that they have nothing to feed.
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Don't notice anyone. If you notice them it'll kick their self-promotion, cannibalism, and territorialism into gear

 It's a human eat human world. 
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Go slow. Stop. Stay a while.

 Let people adjust to you. Pretend you don't notice them and their predatory self-interest won't kick in.
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6-word autobiography

Victory discouraged; abandoned fools, befriended sages.
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