A different perspective

[LadyForCamus]

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?

[Ahriman]

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.

[The Grand Nudger]

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?

[arewethereyet]

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?

[Silver]

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.

[Ahriman]

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.

[Belacqua]

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.

[The Grand Nudger]

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?

[Ahriman]

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.

[The Grand Nudger]

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?