UndertheOcean
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Sun Mar-07-10 10:53 PM
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If there is one mantra I am zeroing in , it is this : "Reduce the Suffering" |
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Edited on Sun Mar-07-10 10:55 PM by UndertheOcean
Forget about choice or life . Forget about your Ideology. Marxism , Capitalism , Anarchism forget all the isms.
don't base your decisions in life around cold analytic ideologies , which can only approximate the human condition . And life is way more complex to be reduced to a set of theories.
Just take every thing on a case by case basis , doing whatever reduces the suffering.
That is the best you can do to make a dent in the course of human history.
The greatest people in the world , are ones that history will never remember ... The volunteers in homeless shelters , Docotors living in third world countries offering all they can to help and turning their backs on luxury and greed. Church abbots protecting undocumented immigrants . Millions of acts of kindness that go on around us everyday.
I went from Islamist , to Atheist , to Agnostic Marxist , to Anarchist , and now I just abhor all ideology ... I believe it is a kind of secular religion and one of the blights brought upon the suffering.
Read and learn for sure, read Lenin's or Strauss's tomes ... but don't make a religion out of it.
Just reduce the suffering , please , in any little or big way you can.
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Sun Mar-07-10 11:12 PM
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1. K&R -- I have nothing to add. |
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Sun Mar-07-10 11:30 PM
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2. Good thing for us all that someone found the cause of suffering, |
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and showed us that there is a way out.
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Sun Mar-07-10 11:35 PM
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Sun Mar-07-10 11:39 PM
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4. One of the reasons I'm vegan. |
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And it's something that anyone can do whenever they may choose to.
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Sun Mar-07-10 11:41 PM
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5. Man , Vegetarianism , I am doing that easily .... |
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Maybe feeling sick and tired when I stop drinking milk or eating eggs is all in my head.
I envy you.
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