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Most Important thing you've learned in your life?

P A said:
That, in the final analysis, suffering is the true name of this despicable game, and the few precious moments of beauty and mutual solidarity that we are afforded in this life are but brief respites from the interminable nightmare of an existence carved out of the suffering of untold billions of biological progenitors, all of them wallowing in the same cesspit of unfathomable torment punctuated by brief intervals of sustaining pleasure lest they lose their will to survive, let alone the desire to reproduce more of their wretched kind.
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holy fuck dude....I was litteraly writing this exact sentiment out to post then I saw this. I too came to the conclusion that life's purpose is to suffer. everything from the highest being to the lowliest microbe suffers to survive on this rock and casues other life forms to suffer because of its survival. suffering seems to be the only reason we are here. and the things that we do to reduce our suffering only cause more suffering for ourselves and other beings around us.
 
The Four Noble Truths

1. Life means suffering.

2. The origin of suffering is attachment.

3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.

4. The path to the cessation of suffering.



1. Life means suffering.

To live means to suffer, because the human nature is not perfect and neither is the world we live in. During our lifetime, we inevitably have to endure physical suffering such as pain, sickness, injury, tiredness, old age, and eventually death; and we have to endure psychological suffering like sadness, fear, frustration, disappointment, and depression. Although there are different degrees of suffering and there are also positive experiences in life that we perceive as the opposite of suffering, such as ease, comfort and happiness, life in its totality is imperfect and incomplete, because our world is subject to impermanence. This means we are never able to keep permanently what we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by, we ourselves and our loved ones will pass away one day, too.

2. The origin of suffering is attachment.

The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance thereof. Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and -in a greater sense- all objects of our perception. Ignorance is the lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent things. The reasons for suffering are desire, passion, ardour, pursuit of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity, or in short: craving and clinging. Because the objects of our attachment are transient, their loss is inevitable, thus suffering will necessarily follow. Objects of attachment also include the idea of a "self" which is a delusion, because there is no abiding self. What we call "self" is just an imagined entity, and we are merely a part of the ceaseless becoming of the universe.

3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.

The cessation of suffering can be attained through nirodha. Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. The third noble truth expresses the idea that suffering can be ended by attaining dispassion. Nirodha extinguishes all forms of clinging and attachment. This means that suffering can be overcome through human activity, simply by removing the cause of suffering. Attaining and perfecting dispassion is a process of many levels that ultimately results in the state of Nirvana. Nirvana means freedom from all worries, troubles, complexes, fabrications and ideas. Nirvana is not comprehensible for those who have not attained it.

4. The path to the cessation of suffering.

There is a path to the end of suffering - a gradual path of self-improvement, which is described more detailed in the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way between the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self-mortification (asceticism); and it leads to the end of the cycle of rebirth. The latter quality discerns it from other paths which are merely "wandering on the wheel of becoming", because these do not have a final object. The path to the end of suffering can extend over many lifetimes, throughout which every individual rebirth is subject to karmic conditioning. Craving, ignorance, delusions, and its effects will disappear gradually, as progress is made on the path.


....not gonna lie though, a NDE/OBE on DXM lead me to believe this...:)
 
Haha, that doesn't even make sense. :)


Science...biology..makes sense and is not 'entirely random'.


Take a Biology class,
Hinduism and Buddhism/Apatheism....all incorporate current 'science' into their philosophies.
As a biology major, I know a few things...enough to to know science is not 'random'.
Neither is life.

Read Ursula Goodenough....I assume she has more credits than you...
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I don't know. How do you ever really know if you've learned anything, let alone the relative importance of things learned? There is so much information in the world how can we ever learn it all let alone advance it? How can we ever trust our conclusions with so much over looked data? I suppose specialise in study of a very narrow field but everything is interconnected and relates to other things you're then choosing willfull ignorance of factors that would influence your formed lessons, what if at the end of your life everything you've lived was a lie and you just didn't know it?

Summation: Nothing.
 
When it comes to practical things. Ke=1/2(mv2) has been very valuable.

It teaches me that getting hit by a nerf ball is a non-issue but that a garbage truck doing 80kmh is an entirely different story.
 
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^Are the atomistic logical operations of mathematics easily separable from the everyday 'common sense' to which you allude?
 
P A said:
^Are the atomistic logical operations of mathematics easily separable from the everyday 'common sense' to which you allude?
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well it came from direct observation first, so they aren't really separatable at all
 
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