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People who say this are always really vague about it, or else have outlandishly stupid justifications. I don't know how people take this seriously.
Life being Dukkha does make some sense though.
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Well, the only times I've ever heard it used have been by whiny White Girls™ with nothing better to do but bitch about how daddy got them a maxPhone series GT4X for Christmas and not a maxPhone series GT4X² like they wanted. With that said, I don't think anyone takes it seriously (excluding its usage in religious contexts, naturally).
Also, Myr! I fucking missed you dude!
Is that SotiCoto?
No, Soti was British.
I usually see it used this way... but I've been hanging out more with economists and less with edgy teens.
The last guy I heard say it certainly had every reason to.
Well for people with horrible diseases or bad luck it can be true, but I don't think it works as a sweeping statement.
Didn't this phrase originate from Buddhist teachings, that life is full of things that can cause suffering?
Yup.
I just learned what it is: Morning classes until noon, then a 3 to 11:30 night shift at a call center. to get home at 1:00.
From a certain standpoint, I think that it's a perfectly valid assertion. The problem lies in the ambiguity of the phrasing: There are many ways to interpret the word "suffering," and applying it in the simplest sense (prolonged emotional and/or physical turmoil) really doesn't work here.
Also, Myrmidon, why must you beat this dead horse?
It's his calling. It is simply what he was pooped out of his mothers womb to do.
Bob!
I believe you mean queefed out of my mother's womb.
no, I mean