Why our cultures and civilization is failing.

[Jibartik]

I think this is happening https://youtu.be/Wr9IdY_zA-M

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think this is happening https://youtu.be/Wr9IdY_zA-M

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[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by bomaroast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The monoculture that the internet is conjuring isn't helping much. So much for free thought

Oh crap.

This clicked.

U r right.

[Rang]

In this thread:

Trannies crying because their shitty parents abused them. And then arguing for non-nuclear family - shocker!

Sorry your parents sucked! My awesome, big, catholic family all love and support each other. We are all successful to boot!

[Tobius]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The default state of humanity wasn't a high-tech police state under constant surveillance without any frontiers. For thousands of years.

OP is interesting because he is a statue AVI nerd crying about civilisational decay.

HOWEVER he hasn't said dogwhistle shit like 'western civilisation'... The statue seems to be Budhha or something, and he's complaining about police state which could mean he's left leaning, or perhaps just libertarian but he didn't go on a tangent about wanting to fuck 14 year olds so it's very unclear.

If it's a troll post I'd give it 10/10

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Rang [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In this thread:

Trannies crying because their shitty parents abused them. And then arguing for non-nuclear family - shocker!

Sorry your parents sucked! My awesome, big, catholic family all love and support each other. We are all successful to boot!

I never said your family sucked. Sounds like you had a big extended family and you all looked out for eachother in a bigger community, thats exactly what I'm advocating for.

Catholicism works, it helped my grandmother reach 84. It's not above reproach, but it is what it is.

Originally Posted by Tobius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OP is interesting because he is a statue AVI nerd crying about civilisational decay.

HOWEVER he hasn't said dogwhistle shit like 'western civilisation'... The statue seems to be Budhha or something, and he's complaining about police state which could mean he's left leaning, or perhaps just libertarian but he didn't go on a tangent about wanting to fuck 14 year olds so it's very unclear.

If it's a troll post I'd give it 10/10

The Buddha transitioned lots through his life. It's not about the end point. He started out reveling in pleasure. I'm not even saying to follow buhhda which is just really reformed, state backed monastically approved Hinduism. Again it sorta works, like Catholicism.

I feel like Bhudda himself realized we are all parts of something more, and we are all going to reach different endpoints individually, but on the whole we'll collectively reach a kind of enlightenment and we aren't entirely alone, that there is a higher self that feels and observes all these little journies and has their own discreet perspective encompassing all the life of this world. Is affected by our individual lives or our choices to not even engage with others. He doesn't tell us we are wrong, I don't think he's afraid for this higher self, just wants to help them, and help us reach them. I believe in the end he just realizes we'll be remembered or not remembered in the way that this works, so he sought to join us all together with himself on this path if we would accept and follow his teaching.

Bhudda set out to explore. Then teach. His goal I believe, making this journey easier, smoother, helping those resisting or attacking the universe or in conflict with themselves essentially find peace with the things they cannot change and empowering them to bring themselves into the whole. Even if that's just sitting under a tree in the woods with the tigers. In this way Bhudda teaches us how to attain oneness through ourselves and be at peace with each other and join him in enlightenment.

You'll see that my statue avatar is reclined, smiling with a slightly humorous curl of fingers on the scalp. This guy isn't super serious or worried about controlling everyone or making people believe him. Or people following his teaching absolutely precisely. He's content to share what he can and observe and learn. He already knows what is happening and where he's going and who he's becoming. Not because he's arrogant and set in his ways, unchanging, unflinching, controlling, but because he has the wisdom to have faith and trust his spirit. And the belief that others will join him in they're own way. And in so doing he will continue to grow, even after his mortal body is gone.

Bhudda through his journey and in sharing his journey gave us a measure of peace and connection to him. We are a part of Buddha and when we follow his teaching we are accepted.

Yeah, I talk shit, speculate share hard truths, but I make no demand that anyone following me, believe me, and I openly admit that my thoughts and ideas are tempered in the very sharing of them. There's no defacto, ultra perfect move here. I see suffering and I bring to the table what I can. Life experience, lessons learned. Faith. Visions. A way that could work, and probably needs others help to communicate. And grow into something more compassionate. It's not about vengeance, punishment, or controlling how people live.

It's about finding ways for people to live, and live better. And transcend what fear we share. And the disease and suffering we share in life as a whole being. There's a lot of ways to do that. I'm just lending voice to my ways, and a few other ways which have helped me reach this point despite my hardships and continue on. I find truth and inspiration in all things, temperance and understanding. To refuse the world and what it is, is to refuse life, refuse reality, truth, connection. Is to refuse ones self.

I'm true to myself. I accept myself. Even when I'm in conflict with myself. I try not to conflict with Bhudda and Jesus, even though I get it wrong sometimes yeah. Those are moments I can grow within. Learn to encompass. Understand and share.

[Bhairava]

Guénon remarks the irony in materialism and its vocabulary. Archaic and historical societies through the medieval period in the West understood that the earthly and worldly existence acquires its reality through its participation in a vertical dimension, the dimension of transcendence. Spirit belongs to transcendence and spirit is more real than matter, which lies at the lowest level of manifestation. To call the dispensation that has blinded itself to transcendence, real life, opposing itself to an unreal life lived supposedly in the shadow of superstition, involves not just an inversion, but an obliteration of values. “The thing so named,” Guénon argues, “is on the contrary nothing but the worst of illusions.” The victim of the self-imposed illusion increasingly conceives his own, human domain as having been healthily pared down to pure corporeality. Guénon writes: “It is enough to notice how our contemporaries constantly make use of the word ‘real’ as a synonym of ‘sensible’ without even thinking about it, in order at once to become aware that they have indeed fully reached the final stage, and that this way of looking at things has become so completely incorporated into their very nature as to have become so to speak almost instinctive to them.” It is a case then not of evolution, of which Homo modernus considers himself the culmination, but rather of a type of devolution that is too stupid, having systematically stupefied itself, to recognize its own deficiency, its own impoverishment, and its own vulgarity. Every institution of modern Western civilization promulgates this illusion, which has become universal.

[Bhairava]

People turned away from God and beauty and eternity, and faced themselves towards temporality and the ugliness of profane society -imagining themselves with no other recourse- and ask 'why am I depressed', 'why does my life not mean anything'.

[magnetaress]

Guénon remarks the irony in materialism and its vocabulary. Archaic and historical societies through the medieval period in the West understood that the earthly and worldly existence acquires its reality through its participation in a vertical dimension, the dimension of transcendence. Spirit belongs to transcendence and spirit is more real than matter, which lies at the lowest level of manifestation. To call the dispensation that has blinded itself to transcendence, real life, opposing itself to an unreal life lived supposedly in the shadow of superstition, involves not just an inversion, but an obliteration of values. “The thing so named,” Guénon argues, “is on the contrary nothing but the worst of illusions.” The victim of the self-imposed illusion increasingly conceives his own, human domain as having been healthily pared down to pure corporeality. Guénon writes: “It is enough to notice how our contemporaries constantly make use of the word ‘real’ as a synonym of ‘sensible’ without even thinking about it, in order at once to become aware that they have indeed fully reached the final stage, and that this way of looking at things has become so completely incorporated into their very nature as to have become so to speak almost instinctive to them.” It is a case then not of evolution, of which Homo modernus considers himself the culmination, but rather of a type of devolution that is too stupid, having systematically stupefied itself, to recognize its own deficiency, its own impoverishment, and its own vulgarity. Every institution of modern Western civilization promulgates this illusion, which has become universal.

Originally Posted by Bhairava [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People turned away from God and beauty and eternity, and faced themselves towards temporality and the ugliness of profane society -imagining themselves with no other recourse- and ask 'why am I depressed', 'why does my life not mean anything'.

Oh yeah that is good. Words on the screen are just silly electronic bits and light, but we feel them and carry them with us. And share them with eachother, ourselves.

Thank you for sharing your keypresses, life and precious spirit.

This is what Christ means when he says consume his flesh and drink his blood.

His body and work, and his spirit, blood, our fellowship through him. For he is our bread. Our yeast. That which grows through him within us. And sustains us. Through his blood, spirit.

[magnetaress]

P.s. there's this mythology around me that I'm a really depressed upset spirit.

I'm actually super fucking cool and nice. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] regardless of my physical reality, I got that going for me. And there's nothing super specifically wrong with bringing comfort to others, or accepting it yourself, indeed that's exactly what Christ did, he helped us out with his life and spirit.