The older I get the more convinced I become that the insanity in the human race is the norm rather than the exception.
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Storm1752
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Apr 4, 2020
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Buddhists? Subservient? Where'd you get that idea? Maybe serene, or stoic, or quiet, but subservient? To whom?
I think that's a typical stereotype.
Most certainly including me!
Well Self denial is a coping mechanism, I think many people are reactive and don’t really pay much attention to their lives other than the, ‘recipe knowledge’ that is presented to them via mainstream mediums.
This mindset is useful for the powers that be, status quo etc. People are struggling a lot of their lives to meet their basic needs and follow trends, own things and don’t navel gaze, (self analyse), too much.
The norm will never be called insanity by those that diagnose such things, because how could they manage such a situation?
Buddhism teaches people to observe their reactions and thoughts, but also teaches them to be passive and somewhat subservient.
In summary; it’s a funny old world 
girlwithsmiles
Level 8
Apr 3, 2020
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I'm in a cheerful mood right now, so please allow me to (hopefully) soothe you a bit.
We are not insane so much as we are the lovely products of evolution. And look how far we've come!
Sure, we entertain some irrational thoughts - there are glitches in the process! But isn't that lovely, too, in a way? Those glitches hopefully keep us humble - we are but h. Sapiens, not so very far removed from our primitive roots. Fancy apes.
But sometimes we ride so far above those humble beginnings! We make symphonies and develop the germ theory of disease! And sometimes we stoop so low - we have holocausts and pollution.
Fancy apes, trying and failing and trying again. But we can perhaps forgive ourselves for this.
AmyTheBruce
Level 7
Apr 3, 2020
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I have no problem with looking the dark side of it all up close, and it is not unusual for people to assume that it is depression or whatever, but I don't see it that way, adversity is what challenges us, even though most people do not see it that way. The spirits that thrive in times of adversity are those who take it as a challenge.
Thank you. I get so tired of the steady, monotonous, boring drumbeat of negativity espoused by some our fellow travelers.
Much of the reason I slipped quietly and snugly into agnosticism a long time ago was because it was tremendously liberating. I felt a tremendous weight lifting as I realized I was free of the old negativity and worries...only to be exposed on here to a different but no less onerous negativity by often atheistic doom-and-gloomers.
There is so many interesting things to talk about and explore--always keeping in mind and duly noting the reactionary forces but not becoming ones ourselves! We are on the cusp of some fairly 'magical' advances made possible by our endless ingenuity, ones which will make what we have accomplished so far look like stone-age clubs and cave dwellings. I'm convinced developing technologies will render obsolete today's problems, while creating new ones far easier to deal with and overcome, to the point some day we will look around and discover paradise on Earth has been achieved.
Sure, that's being ridiculously and naively optimistic, but so what? We all have to think about something, and I for one would rather think about that--which my agnosticism allows me to do--than go on and on about the hated and dastardly Republicans (which I do also when in a really bad mood) or the certain destruction of the environment, or the coming, creeping capitalist oligarchy!
Those are real problems, to be sure, but can we please every now and then look on the bright side, for chrissake?
Thank you.
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