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Level 7 - Loquacious
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Virginia
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Re: I hate this song
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Originally Posted by koobcam
Eliminating the 'want' from yourself will allow you to be free and feel no pain. If you don't want for anything, there will be no pain.
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Yeah, that's kind of ridiculous.
Pain is a part of existence, and if you deny yourself part of existence, then you don't really live. There is much knowledge gained through suffering, though suffering is not really ideal.
Buddhism seeks to destroy the knowledge gained through suffering by claiming that eliminating 'want' or desire brings some sort of comfort. Yet if the desire is for comfort and for the freedom from pain, that is in itself a desire... a 'want' and thus it refutes itself.
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Away with our explosives then! Away with our destroyers! They have no place within our better world... But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable.
Let's drink to their health, then meet with them no more.
9.30.2006 - Washington, D.C.
6.07.2007 - Richmond, VA
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