From time to time i check out this blog and i'm frequently surprised in a delighted kind of way when i spot new comments. heerz one from a beloved friend:
"but the one great downfall of buddhism is that it seeks to eliminate desires." Yeah that's a wierd thing i never quite understood about buddhism. I've never been quite sure if it was over my head as to why that made sense, or if it just didn't make sense at all :P
great insight, amigo. you see, if our desires are bad, then something's seriously wrong. (i firmly believe that everything is perfectly right in the long run, btw.) but buddhism points to an important fact still: this fact is that we have desires but we can't completely fulfill them in this world. but that doesn't make desires wrong. it just means that our desires have to be postponed a little while. it's called delayed gratification, and it's the foundation of maturity. being mature means waiting for the things you want because you know you will be better off having them later. and this involves a certain amount of belief in the idea that there is some kind of existence that transcends our perceptible time/space universe. for many scientists, this is unthinkable. for some reason there is a powerful group of secular humanists who do not want to even consider the idea that anything exists outside of our perceptible realm, and so anything relating to God or spirituality is automatically shunned as irrelivant and worthless. Sadly, this leads to the kind of short-term thinking that says, "Well, I'm getting ripped off here, so everything must be against me and I'll just go buy a gun and start blowing away people because I feel so mistreated." Thank you, secular humanists. Thank you, atheists. Thank you, darwinists. Because again and again, your poisonous philosophies lead to tragedies that are unimaginable. The Jewish Haulocost came from Naziism, which was a direct result of Darwinism. The Virginia Tech tragedy resulted from a student who obviously had no moral compass whatsoever. Hellooo-oooo!! I'm sure mister Cho could easily have been an atheist and/or secular humanist. Because if he wasn't, then the things he did would have seriously conflicted with his own personal beliefs. To be honest, it's really very hard to shoot innocent people several times in a cold, calculated way if you have any kind of sense that what you are doing could be wrong. but according to the moral relativity that is propogated today, what mister Cho did was probaby completely acceptable by the rules he chose to embrace. However, there are greater rules involved here. these rules do not come from this realm. they transecnd this realm. and these rules will have their effect no matter what happens in this tiny corner of the universe. the purpose of our lives here is very difficult to determine, but the irony is that the purpose of our lives here is incredibly more important than we can understand. that's part of the reason why i seem to be so antagonistic toward middle-eastern citizens- because there is often such an overwhelming devaluation of human life. but i'm not here to promote any particular ideology (except mine, of course [ha ha]). choose your religion, and i assure you you're gonna be apologizing for something down the line. that's the nature of our limited understanding. we all have such limited understanding that we would truly be devistated by the full knowledge of our limitations. and im not just talking about a certain group here. if you're breathing, this is the truth. but my purpose here is to inspire others to look beyond the limitations imposed by those who imagine they are the rulers over the rest of us. for example:
did you know that the mighty movers in the "scientific" community have come to the conclusion that the observable universe only accounts for five percent of the effects of gravity and energy around us? how ironic. these scientists will shun any non-physical sources without the least consideration, but they're willing to put their trust in two very unknown and mysterious forces called "dark matter" and "dark energy" which have no relation to our observable universe at all. what they're really saying is that there's something out there that affects the gravity and energy in this universe, but they don't know what it is. however, they choose to believe that this is some invisible kind of matter that doesn't exist outside the physical realm, because if it did, then their own observations would become very subjective and they wouldn't get the kind of government grants that they love so dearly. scientist just hate to lose their money and power. that's how piltdown man came to be. but propaganda wins over true science, as evidenced by the fact that al gore got a prize for his incredibly unscientific lies. it's all politics in the end. it's not about what is true, but what you can make people think is true. ironically, in a few years time we're gonna all look back and see how much money we've put into "carbon control" and see how the global temperature is doing whatever it wants in spite of the paranoia that has taken hold today. did you know that our oceans are the greatest producers of carbon dioxide? so let's f*cking start regulating the oceans, dammit!!! but back to our original buddhist thoughts. buddhism isn't bad if it helps us delay our personal gratification so we can experience greater gratification in the long run. this requires waiting...
