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"Life is suffering"

MyrmidonMyrmidon
edited 2013-01-14 19:18:28 in General

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. 

Comments

  • Bobomir_BobinskiBobomir_Bobinski
    edited 2013-01-14 19:23:27

    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!

  • MyrmidonMyrmidon

  • Bobomir_BobinskiBobomir_Bobinski

    Is that SotiCoto?

  • MyrmidonMyrmidon

    No, Soti was British.

  • NoimportaNoimporta

    Life being Dukkha does make some sense though.



    I usually see it used this way... but I've been hanging out more with economists and less with edgy teens.

  • FormaldehydeFormaldehyde
    I don't think that you can take this statement and refute it on the basis that it isn't true for everyone, or because some whiny kids said it. It's certainly true for some people.



    The last guy I heard say it certainly had every reason to.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon

    Well for people with horrible diseases or bad luck it can be true, but I don't think it works as a sweeping statement.

  • FormaldehydeFormaldehyde
    Of course it doesn't; almost nothing but the most general of observations do.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown

    Didn't this phrase originate from Buddhist teachings, that life is full of things that can cause suffering?

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Yup.

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    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.

  • JHMJHM
    Here, There, Everywhere

    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?

  • Bobomir_BobinskiBobomir_Bobinski

    It's his calling. It is simply what he was pooped out of his mothers womb to do.

  • MyrmidonMyrmidon

    Bob!


    I believe you mean queefed out of my mother's womb.

  • Bobomir_BobinskiBobomir_Bobinski

    no, I mean


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