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desant
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This world is a joke
#21818857 - 06/17/15 12:12 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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desant
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: desant]
#21818881 - 06/17/15 12:16 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thankfully there are other worlds and dimensions of existence out there, hence me saying THIS world is a joke. If this world was all there is it would suck big time
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: desant]
#21819060 - 06/17/15 01:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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A boy came up to me and said “This world is a joke.” I said “in what sense?” “Everyone is only out for themselves, nobody cares about important shit, everyone is brainwashed and deluded.” “This is true.” I said “Well then what’s the point?” “What do you mean?” “I mean why even bother?” “Oh… well, you just got to make the best out of a bad situation.” I advised him
“Make the.. Make the best??? Why is it all on ME?? Why can’t I just be in heaven?”
Ah yes. I remember that question. It was a hard question. Some people would have said right then and there “It can be heaven, if you make the right choices.”
But still, what a joke it all was. I never asked to be born. All of this random chaos and it was all up to me to make order of it. Well I didn’t like it.
So I did what all reasonable people did to combat the heaviness of the world. I became an alcoholic and numbed the pain. It worked for a while, then reality came knocking at my door. It told me I couldn’t continue this way, I was going to have to stand up and make a real effort at this whole taking care of myself.
I want to tell that boy that I have the world in my palm, that everything is going to be okay and to just go with the flow.
But I’m upset now. Whenever reality brings forth a new challenge it is upsetting.
You mean I have to meditate for half an hour every day? You mean I have to get exercise every day? I can’t eat whole boxes of cookies in one sitting?
The world is a joke… something said by the young, but what do the old say? Do they agree? One time an elderly lady told me that life is a game. Same idea? Games can be cruel like jokes. And life can seem like a cruel joke.
For me, reality always seems to be becoming the best thing ever while simultaneously becoming the worst thing ever. And it’s never fair, is it? What do you say to the kid in a wheelchair or the blind girl across the street? That it all happens for a reason?
Such a strange concept, that everything happens for a reason. What is the spiritual significance of an apple falling from a tree and hitting you in the head? What if it doesn’t hit you in the head - does it still have significance?
But then there is love.. And people say a lot of things about love. Love is God, Love is life… it’s all here because of love and WE ARE PREDESTINED TO REACH HIGHER LEVELS OF LOVE.
This is what I chose to tell the boy, not outright but in parables and short stories and koans. But sometimes I don’t believe it myself.. When those bad things happen, that make us question God itself.. Because it’s hard work sometimes to be happy with what we have.
But if I could believe it fully, and really mean it, that’s what I would tell him. We are growing towards the light. Worry about it, fine, because one day you’re not going to have those worries.
But then he hits me at a sore point in my soul
“And what about the starving children, the ones without water out there in the poor places? How sick is our society to ignore all that?”
Damn… he’s right. We are a decadent society, absorbed by technology and distraction and consumer lifestyle. This kind of is a joke, a sick joke to those who have nothing. What would they think of us?
And this modern age, what has our purpose become? To buy things to support giant corporations who view us like cattle?
We stand for nothing. We let our loved ones go to war for things we don’t understand. What are we doing? We’re acting like cogs in a machine!
This IS a joke.
Well, time to go jerk off and eat some bacon. I’m making the best of a situation.
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BEAUTIFUL post
Society is fucked up, we live in a world where 99% of everything is owned by 1%
Never mind, like the song goes: when u close to tears remember, SOME DAY it will all be over and we gonna get high ... so high
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: desant]
#21819110 - 06/17/15 01:30 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I enjoyed reading that Eternalcowabunga, thank you for sharing.(:
I can't help but feel guilty every day for how I, we, live.
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: desant]
#21819124 - 06/17/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I keep thinking your avatar is Tyler Durden from Fight Club.
Fight club is an amazing movie to me. It makes the most sense philisophically than any other movie I've seen. I recommend this movie to anyone who takes this consumer lifestyle seriously. It's also great because it is about balance - when operation mayhem goes too far, he tries to stop it - he doesn't like the full implication of the Fight Club concept.
My favourite scene is when he's in the car with 3 other guys, it's the first time he's being included in project mayhem and the Tyler character asks each one what they want to do before they die - they almost get in a car crash because the main character takes too long to answer and Tyler is pushing him to come up with something or he's going to let the car crash.
Glad to share, Spoorman!
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If you are not enjoying life on this plane it is due to depression or other brain dysfunction.
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: circastes]
#21820081 - 06/17/15 06:11 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sadness is something we all feel at times Circastes
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: circastes]
#21820150 - 06/17/15 06:26 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
desant said: BEAUTIFUL post
I second that. Absolutely loved reading that, and not just for the fact that it's nice to know I'm not alone in my feelings about this situation - it's also very beautifully written.
I share your thoughts about Fight Club exactly Eternalcowabunga.
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circastes said: If you are not enjoying life on this plane it is due to depression or other brain dysfunction.
Yeah... I don't think life is that black and white.
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i don't think its a joke or serious or anything else, it's just there. i think considering it a joke might come about from taking it more seriously than it is and guessing meaning into it and then reality's still the same and that's not the case at all, and the same from the opposite side with someone who starts off taking it as a joke and then reality and ends up taking it seriously when that's not the case at all. i can't say it sucks or doesn't suck or anything else just because that just seems all based off random purely guess based meanings and labels its just all there and it is what it is
feel the need to clarify a bit lol. like if you're driving forever and finally get hungry and see a sign saying like 10 miles to the next town and started being like 'oh, there'll be a restaurant there' and assuming it's gonna be a big steak dinner or whatever else sounds awesome to you, and then it turns out to be like a perkins and you get dissapointed and go 'pfffttt, pretty much a mcdonalds' when perkins is all you were gonna get and just fine anyway. but what the topic is about i think is even sillier just cause it's like if the steak dinners or mcdonalds never existed at all anywhere ever except in your head, just completely imaginary things when perkins was all there ever was is or will be. serious or not serious/joke labels being the imaginary things of course lol
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: Pope]
#21820586 - 06/17/15 08:04 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Of course this worldis a joke..gotta have a sense of humor to stay sane
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I mean in general though...
Life is amazing.
The quality of your consciousness is all there is for you and your universe... seek to improve your being, non-stop, forever.
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: circastes] 1
#21824747 - 06/18/15 05:46 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't mean it Ina negative way at all. I see humans as infinite...souls here to gain experience for the next life. I don't mean it is a cruel joke. I'm just saying just being able to buck up and laugh things off because this is one life of many
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: desant] 1
#21825032 - 06/18/15 06:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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If it's a joke why are you taking it so seriously!?
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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Re: This world is a joke [Re: deff]
#21826690 - 06/19/15 04:12 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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IDLE HANDS ARE THE DEVILS PLAYGROUND
One of the most accurate sayings ever....
Many of us on Earth have become lazy and apathetic towards really digging deep and finding our true passions and then actually ACTING on them, in a creative hands on way, while communing with other people and sharing ideas, which will inspire others to act. This apathy allows other groups of individuals who wish to lie, trick, and deceive people, easier access to do so.
There are many people who are acting on their passions, but there are much more who aren't, and this has been hugely fueled by over-abuse of technology, and not enough getting back into nature.
We are spirit, but this is a physical reality we've chosen to experience, we must put our ideas into physical manifestation.
ACT!!!
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You're going after laziness as the cause of our problems?

I think busy-ness would be more like it.
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