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21yo bi nb transfem, who truly does care, and hates so many things. I have many names, and they are all cool, in case you were wondering. +18 only, hmu if u wanna idk.


sociohat
@sociohat

sorry for bringing in both twitter AND reddit here but I wanna talk about it.

A lot of Soulful White Boys, and really any person who hasn't really "lived" a religion (or is dissatisfied by the one they were born with), seek Enlightenment in a way that I think is actually quite hedonistic: they want to experience Enlightenment, and they want it to to be so euphoric and cathartic that it utterly changes them.

Obviously that isn't really how it works. That kind of intense emotion is something that only a cult would promise you. Religion is mundane, and enlightenment won't hit you like a truck.


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

soulful white boys love to sit at home on mushrooms from a chocolate bar and solipse about finding personal enlightenment and reaching nirvana. you fool. there is no such thing as finding enlightenment. there is only THE WORLD and THE SELF. You must humble yourself before the world to see your place in it: that of a small, vulnerable animal struggling to exist. Take a huge dose of something nobody has ever heard of and climb up to the top of the hill in a rainstorm. See the forest when every leaf and limb are dancing in the gale. Nothing is still or quiet here and everything wise has taken shelter already. Dodge falling branches. Get sopping fucking wet. Get cold. Mentally prostrate yourself before the storm. The human mind can only bring you misery—GET RID OF IT. Find your instincts and gaze up into the clouds, soaking your face in the rain. Scream. Demand it do its best to kill you. If your hair stands on end, lie on the ground. Find a hollow tree to sit in if you feel tired or miserable. You think you are a Great Mind but you have forgotten you are only a living creature. See THE WORLD and THE SELF for what they truly are. You are one of many independent biological agents, no different from a mouse or an ant or a coyote, finding yourself alive in an unimaginably vast and harsh place. Go out in the storm and learn it again.


jaidamack
@jaidamack

just don't climb the mountain with a miserable bastard.


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in reply to @sociohat's post:

based on what i've read, it's very probable that "enlightenment" is a real thing, more likely to happen if you meditate a lot, that is more of a type of (sometimes chronic) depersonalization or even derealization. it can feel peaceful, but there are accounts from people who have ended up stuck in this state, feeling as if they have ascended above the concerns of the world affecting "themselves" while others around them notice them showing all physiological and behavioral signs of being less in control of their stress and emotions. More like they are less in tune with it and therefore less able to manage it than they are actually unaffected, because the scope of their "self" has altered.

https://psychcentral.com/lib/is-depersonalization-disorder-a-form-of-enlightenment
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176239

pretty sure it's the kind of thing where it just sounds really profound and epic but is closer to a disordered mental state.

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

omg no you're cool i was actually referring to the original original poster with the

"if you really want to have your world rocked you should just have someone rock your prostate"

tag

because it was hilarious.

(edit: realized in hindsight that i commented this on your rebug instead of going to the original poster, that's on me!)

in reply to @jaidamack's post: