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That’s a catch 22. Only a stupid person would get angry at someone for being stupid, because a smart person would understand that the stupid person doesn’t understand what they’re doing and take the appropriate safety measures with kindness.
Now the real danger to a community is the person that thinks they’re getting angry because other people are stupid.
Anger is the behaviour of fools.
You’re literally getting into a fight about it right now and trying desperately to disprove it. Simply the shadow of a threat to a made-up image in your head that isn’t even remotely related to who you actually are has you huffing and puffing on the internet and calling “thorough bullshit”.
Once you’ve fallen into the illusion that you aren’t you, but instead this 2D caricature in your head created by a cloud of words strung together, you want to attach the good words to yourself and you don’t want the bad words.
And just by someone suggesting that the words you’ve attached to are not in fact the right words, and you’re getting yourself red in the head your heart pounding your breath heaven and you’re ready to use violence to destroy whatever seems to threaten these words you’ve attached to, only the fear of punishment and the law forcing bad words onto that self-image, stops you from doing so.
Think about it, sticks and stones which can actually hurt your body, you don’t care much about, but if someone says the wrong word you can’t focus the whole day out of anger.
Naturally you don’t have a self-image, you’re not words. Animals don’t have anything like that, and you’re nothing but an animal with a brain capable of abstraction. You can imagine a flying cow, but there is no such creature, it is pure abstraction. Similarly just because you can imagine an image in your head and think that that’s you, naturally, it’s a complete fiction.
Words are a symbolic language, purely referential and conceptual, not related at all to reality. Once your mind creates an abstraction of itself through a language that can’t even describe something as simple as a rock, you’ve gone and lost yourself completely to illusion and from then on, it’s only natural that you commit all the evils of humanity over nothing. You’ve even got those religious people, who are ready to kill over what they think are the right and wrong words.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•As a young person, how can you achieve any sense of stability when it feels like no career path or job is stable?
52·1 day agoMeditation.
There was never any stability in the world, but in times such as these it becomes painfully apparent.
The only place of stability is within.
That ironically also leads to the highest stability without.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should FearEnglish
72·1 day agoMy eyes definitely fear it
I can’t tell you whether the post is fake, but I can tell you this exact situation was researched in my country and found to be correct and then was never heard from again
Eating isn’t gross and that’s not what the Ego is. Ego is the idea that you have of yourself as a concept in your mind, the image of yourself. From that comes the idea that rhis imaginary image can be enlarged or diminished by other fictional things. Like how you think if someone insults you you have to fight them back, or if you people like you, you’re more important. It’s a complete absurdity where people fight over mental images and go to wars over ideas that do not exist in reality.
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News@lemmy.world•River that is home to 500 crocodiles chosen to host 2032 Olympic rowing and canoe events
28·3 days agoFinally some sports I want to watch
You know the funny part? It goes all the way. Let’s look at this dialogue from a Zen master from a 1000 years ago:
Q: What instructions have the Masters everywhere given for dhyana practice and the study of Dharma?
A: Words used to attract the dull of wit are not to be relied on.
Q: If those teachings were meant for the dull-witted, I have yet to hear what Dharma has been taught to those of really high capacity.
A: If they are really people of high capacity, where could they find people to follow? If they seek from within themselves, they will find nothing tangible; how much less can they find a Dharma worthy of their attention elsewhere! Do not look to what is called the Dharma by teachers, for what sort of Dharma could that be?
Q: If that is so, should we not seek for anything at all?
A: By conceding this, you would save yourself a lot of mental effort.
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Coffee@lemmy.world•As a comfort coffee enjoyer, what's the appeal of light roste?
2·3 days agoCoffees good
Simple as .
All good. What I’ve given you here is worth more than all the power and all the riches in the world, but it’s no more than a gift.
Enjoy! Or not.
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Coffee@lemmy.world•As a comfort coffee enjoyer, what's the appeal of light roste?
1·3 days agoLight roast with milk sounds like some kind of exquisite blasphemy
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Coffee@lemmy.world•As a comfort coffee enjoyer, what's the appeal of light roste?
1·3 days agoHate to hear it buddy
Of course, at first it appears that our frustration comes from other people - but then some people get frustrated by one type of behaviour, while other people get frustrated by another type of behaviour - suddenly it becomes difficult to justify frustration as innately arising from certain behaviours, doesn’t it? It all ends up being completely arbitrary and therefore without any central truth.
You get frustrated because the behaviours you perceive (which are rarely even the behaviours actually displayed) trigger uncomfortable emotions in you, which you are not aware you can simply turn your attention inwards and allow and sit with, so you believe you must fight the external cause for your frustration for your system to settle down - a paradigm that leaves you feeling completely dependant on other people’s ability to adhere to whatever system of behaviours you believe to be the “proper one”, for your emotions to stay in control.
Your points are actually irrelevant at this point, because the discussion is no longer about your points, your points are now being used as a weapon to win a fight in which you believe something is at stake. It’s no longer just an interesting exchange of opinions.
So because you have exchanged clarity for frustration and blamed it on something external, the discussion is no longer about the discussion, so we’ll have to discuss the thing that’s in the way of the discussion first of all, so that you can recognize that your frustration is yours, give you the tools to sit with it and not need me to change for you to be calm, and only then can we return to yours and mine points in a friendly matter.
What a gift you’ve stumbled into really - a lifetime ahead of you where other people will never seem like the problem again, and you’ll have the power to always take responsibility and regulate your own mental state.
A crossroads! But do you take a moment to turn inwards and discover your inherent power? Or do you explode outwards again.
These opportunities come once or twice in a person’s lifetime. Wat will you do?
Discussions are meant to be in the service of uncovering the truth, but you went and got angry and now perceive this discussion as a fight for your sense of self.
This doesn’t lead us anywhere, and regardless of who wins this perceived “fight” the truth will lose either way.
You take the time you need to settle back into clarity and then write a new reply, and we will doubtlessly get a fruitful conversation out of it.
And in the future don’t be so willing to give away your emotional clarity, it is your most precious possession.
They do, and it’s been studied too. People with autism for example both score higher on a sense of justice and a willingness to go against peer-pressure to uphold it.
The famous Milgram experiment showed how neurotypicals were even willing to harm people as long as an authority told them to do so.
It’s not a perspective, it’s established science.
But you already knew this, right? If you are neurodivergent you can’t have failed to observe this, regardless of your desire to live in a positive delusion. Reality is not so easily tuned out.
We live in a world of constant strife and lack of empathy, and every answer you’ve given here has been full of unnecessary contentiousness and zero signs of empathy.
You yourself have proven your own argument to be wrong with your conduct, it was never necessary to bring in the rest of humanity or any studies.
Lost in your idealist platitudes about the goodness of mankind, you completely failed at empathy right here and now in a real human interaction, and when called out about it, you literally said: “Toughen up buddy”.
This whole thing reads like a comedy sketch.
You were the quintessential refutation of your own argument from your very first reply, and it only got worse from there.


“He brought me ultimate liberation”