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RE: A different perspective
February 23, 2022 at 4:21 pm
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(February 23, 2022 at 1:40 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (February 23, 2022 at 1:32 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Oh but you do, you do have a preference for a belief, as it's a coping mechanism for whatever suffering you experience. You're giving it a point.. which will, as I mentioned earlier, end up meaning that the suffering is blunted, and thus the forge is less effective.
Not a huge problem, since you don't believe any of it is true in principle.
Honestly, this clown show bullshit isn't half as interesting as you mentioning that no matter what, you're going to suffer alot. Why is that? Why is that? I have no idea. I just suffer, tremendously, for what I would like to believe is a good reason, but perhaps not. Believing in the "positive" option only makes me suffer slightly less. That's all I get in life. Some superficial happiness that amounts to nothing. Forget love, joy, all that good stuff. No, I was meant to experience intolerable pain. Awesome.
Didn’t you say in another thread that god has blessed you with a really good life, and that things were going well for you?
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RE: A different perspective
February 23, 2022 at 5:05 pm
(February 23, 2022 at 4:21 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (February 23, 2022 at 1:40 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Why is that? I have no idea. I just suffer, tremendously, for what I would like to believe is a good reason, but perhaps not. Believing in the "positive" option only makes me suffer slightly less. That's all I get in life. Some superficial happiness that amounts to nothing. Forget love, joy, all that good stuff. No, I was meant to experience intolerable pain. Awesome.
Didn’t you say in another thread that god has blessed you with a really good life, and that things were going well for you? Yeah, and that's not complete BS......my circumstances are fine, better than most actually. I just feel like shit, all the time. No idea why.
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RE: A different perspective
February 23, 2022 at 5:48 pm
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Then we can revise your earlier comments for accuracy. You do not actually believe that some god made literally everything to make you suffer. You acknowledge that this is not the case, and that you have no particular external cause for your suffering - you just feel like shit anyway, or..in spite of how pleasant and full of the potential for all the good stuff your life is in mere reality.
Alot of people are in that boat. I find it difficult to understand myself, but it's a thing. Do you feel improved?
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RE: A different perspective
February 23, 2022 at 6:34 pm
(February 23, 2022 at 5:05 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (February 23, 2022 at 4:21 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Didn’t you say in another thread that god has blessed you with a really good life, and that things were going well for you? Yeah, and that's not complete BS......my circumstances are fine, better than most actually. I just feel like shit, all the time. No idea why.
So, life isn't all that peachy?
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RE: A different perspective
February 23, 2022 at 6:43 pm
The only purpose behind suffering is that which we personally attribute to it. Otherwise, suffering just is. It has no sentience, it isn't singling you out.
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RE: A different perspective
February 23, 2022 at 7:21 pm
(February 23, 2022 at 6:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (February 23, 2022 at 5:05 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Yeah, and that's not complete BS......my circumstances are fine, better than most actually. I just feel like shit, all the time. No idea why.
So, life isn't all that peachy? It could be worse......I just wish the life in my head could be my real life.
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RE: A different perspective
February 23, 2022 at 7:29 pm
(February 23, 2022 at 5:05 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Yeah, and that's not complete BS......my circumstances are fine, better than most actually. I just feel like shit, all the time. No idea why.
I read somewhere that one of the main reasons people go to therapy these days is that they have everything they want but they still don't feel happy.
Our culture needs kind of a big re-think, I think.
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RE: A different perspective
February 24, 2022 at 12:07 am
(February 23, 2022 at 7:21 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (February 23, 2022 at 6:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: So, life isn't all that peachy? It could be worse......I just wish the life in my head could be my real life.
Don't we all? What's stopping that from being the case, for you?
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RE: A different perspective
February 24, 2022 at 2:21 am
(February 24, 2022 at 12:07 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (February 23, 2022 at 7:21 pm)Ahriman Wrote: It could be worse......I just wish the life in my head could be my real life.
Don't we all? What's stopping that from being the case, for you? My fantasies rely on a number of unrealistic circumstances.
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RE: A different perspective
February 24, 2022 at 10:47 am
Unrealistic in the sense of wishing that you could fly, or unrealistic in the sense that you see no path from where you are to that desired outcome, and in either case, how did that inform you about a soul forge?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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