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| is it our connection with others? |
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26 | 30.59% |
| Is it fear of hell? |
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3 | 3.53% |
| Is it a pure desire to be good? |
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34 | 40.00% |
| Is it fear of laws/jail? |
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3 | 3.53% |
| to get laid? |
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17 | 20.00% |
| fear of karma? |
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2 | 2.35% |
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I kill 39 bad people every day. who are you to ask who i am?!
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Oct 19, 2019 04:21
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quote:is it our connection with others? This was my answer. There is a strong interdependence between people. To think just how many cases of causal and this-that conditionality are required for each one's apparent personal existence boggles the mind. On a more fundamental level, individual existence seems to be somewhat illusory, and, at least, an unwholesome mental fabrication because it causes suffering. I have been helped, I have tried to help. I'm not saying I'm a good person, or even that absolute good or evil exist. quote:Is it fear of hell? I bunched these together because they're related, and I personally believe in both, but don't fear them. I do not think of fear as a very good motivator; I much prefer Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity. I try to act out of Love & Compassion and do not shun the occasional consequence of Sympathetic Joy, but the Buddha called "the results of kamma" one of "the four imponderables" and said " "These four imponderables are not to be speculated about. Whoever speculates about them would go mad & experience vexation". Like a finnish rap song, translated, says: "out of good arises evil; out of evil arises good". Thus, the results of karma sometimes seem unfair and almost always seem unfathomable, which makes the fourth Sublime State, Equanimity, so important. quote:Is it a pure desire to be good? One could hope. Due to the inscrutable nature of karma, even the best intentions can not always be trusted to bring hoped-for results, but as I like to say, "if you do your best, no-one can demand more". It can be a useful mental construction to strive to be "better" or "with a purer desire to do good", but ultimately, all such fabrications are empty; in the Heart Sutra, it says "all dharmas are marked with emptiness [...] are not tainted or pure, do not increase or decrease". quote:Is it fear of laws/jail? I should hope not. As I said before, I do not believe that fear makes a good motivator. I personally don't fear these things, and certainly don't base my morality on an aversion of enclosed spaces. I will admit that prison would certainly challenge me, as I have a strong desire for liberty, but then again, a cell is just a room. With some 12 hours a day to meditate, I would have a chance to re-evaluate my notion of freedom, and, indeed, sometimes fantasize about this.
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Oct 19, 2019 04:24
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thats a lot of ways to say you're racist
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Oct 19, 2019 04:25
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My Shoes posted:uh the rear end eating thread is thattaway, dude :P Eating rear end removes from my bottom it does not feed it.
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Oct 19, 2019 04:26
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I'll let you feed my bottom if u know what I'm saying I do not know what you are saying, never heard of such a thing. 
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Oct 19, 2019 04:28
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:This was my answer. There is a strong interdependence between people. To think just how many cases of causal and this-that conditionality are required for each one's apparent personal existence boggles the mind. On a more fundamental level, individual existence seems to be somewhat illusory, and, at least, an unwholesome mental fabrication because it causes suffering. this is a really great post. thanks.
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Oct 19, 2019 04:31
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I give my old dickhead cat insulin twice a day even when he goes pee pee on the floor. Plus he gets combed out twice a day or he won't shut up.
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Oct 19, 2019 04:32
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butt feeding seems like a level 3 fetish, and i don’t how to avoid it other than not role playing as a bunch of grapes.
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Oct 19, 2019 04:32
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dead prez posted:thats a lot of ways to say you're racist Lol I’m gonna jump on the weird post bandwagon here.  I am humble servant, grateful for liberties granted to me by master. Oppressor held me down in shameful ways, and despite besting and brutally defeating master in the most humiliating and laborious ways, I am lucky to be in such graces of the bredreman, and I will such graciously allow to fulfill contracts for master who I too am humbled by despite besting and brutally humiliating in so many ways. I owe all successes to the god of chaos for whom my liberties have been granted not through the strength of my deeds or the will of my ingenuity, but through happenstance and blessing from master, who i humbly deserve despite besting and defeating in all such ways. 
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Oct 19, 2019 04:53
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I haven't made anyone cry in hours. That's a 'Good Person" thing, right?
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Oct 19, 2019 05:09
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Obsidianheart posted:I haven't made anyone cry in hours. That's a 'Good Person" thing, right? Only hours, huh?
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Oct 19, 2019 05:11
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My Shoes posted:Only hours, huh? Eternity can be measured in hours.
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Oct 19, 2019 05:12
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the last time you were in a fight, were you in the right? yes, absolutely in the right i certainly was in the right! yeah, i was definitely in the right that geezer was cruising for a bruising *pink floyd's money fades out*
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Oct 19, 2019 05:28
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The Cockler posted:the last time you were in a fight, were you in the right? Winner writes history, so yes.
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Oct 19, 2019 06:08
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I try not to make people feel like my anxiety makes me feel.
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Oct 19, 2019 06:17
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All i can do is just pour some tea for two and speak my point of view but it's not sane.
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Oct 19, 2019 06:35
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The Cockler posted:the last time you were in a fight, were you in the right? The circle of "people who feel their own goodness" is overly large. The circle of "good people who believe they're good" mostly overlaps with the former circle. The part of the latter circle that doesn't overlap with the former circle probably contains the best people Edit: that doesn't make sense. tldr sometimes good people are driven by a feeling of inadequacy Truck Stop Stall fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oct 19, 2019 06:41
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I don't believe in karma but I believe in "karma" as in if you're a dick and do bad things you'll tend to alienate people around you and that will lead to worse outcomes in general. However this does not always work, as is clearly seen by how many psychoes that exist among economic and political leaders i.e. "successful" people. It's guilt that works to make me try to do good and not bad things, but where it comes from I really don't know. Maybe I was just raised that way.
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Oct 19, 2019 07:03
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Obsidianheart posted:I haven't made anyone cry in hours. That's a 'Good Person" thing, right? *begins weeping* My Shoes posted:All i can do is just pour some tea for two It's not saaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAAne?
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Oct 19, 2019 16:00
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I try to remember that everyone has pain and if i can lessen their pain with my interactions by even just 10% by giving a poo poo, having empathy, listening, and making them laugh, i feel like i'm doing well at being a good person.
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Oct 19, 2019 18:16
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thats way too healthy to be socially acceptable
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Oct 19, 2019 18:20
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dead prez posted:thats way too healthy to be socially acceptable so ive noticed.
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Oct 19, 2019 18:23
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Simple: not being a poo poo oval office. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 19, 2019 19:42
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Simple: not being a poo poo oval office. oh drat. im not a good person after all.
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Oct 19, 2019 20:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=571BuZeeQjE
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Oct 19, 2019 20:08
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Just aim to be the best whatever you are
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Oct 19, 2019 20:08
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Also another thought on the topic - you are what you eat
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Oct 19, 2019 20:16
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dead posters are middle class dinner
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Oct 19, 2019 20:18
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Colonel Cancer posted:Also another thought on the topic - you are what you eat Finally my waffle cosplay will have some authenticity.
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Oct 19, 2019 20:25
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The world is evil, and I have a disagreement with the nature of all things... this leads to me adopting fundamentally mal-adaptive behaviors like kindness, empathy, and morality, in lieu of functional and rewarding behaviors like cruelty selfishness. I understand these beliefs will create only hardship, but death has promised to rescue me from my suffering... in the mean time, I hope to find ways to encourage good and discourage evil.
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Oct 19, 2019 20:30
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My roommate just popped into the kitchen where i was cleaning and randomly told me im the nicest person he knows. That was pretty cool.
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Oct 19, 2019 21:04
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My Shoes posted:My roommate just popped into the kitchen where i was cleaning and randomly told me im the nicest person he knows. That was pretty cool. Did you strike him
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Oct 19, 2019 21:36
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Did you strike him Nah. He struck me and I turned the other cheek
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Oct 19, 2019 22:59
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My Shoes posted:My roommate just popped into the kitchen where i was cleaning and randomly told me im the nicest person he knows. That was pretty cool. Did you set him on fire to assert dominance?
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Oct 19, 2019 23:06
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My Shoes posted:Nah. He struck me and I turned the other cheek Was it a diversion to strike him
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Oct 19, 2019 23:09
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NO! we resolve our disputes in a civilized manner: we mud wrestle
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Oct 20, 2019 06:56
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lol op assuming i'm a good person im a oval office op hth. well, i'll say that i'm a good person when it matters but otherwise I self-isolate for 95% of my existence and am constantly ready to blow up at anyone who rubs me wrong unpleasantly turgid fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Oct 20, 2019 07:11
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The crisis caused by impermanence of self is resolved with the permanence of ideals OP also good boys get tendies
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Oct 20, 2019 07:29
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unpleasantly turgid posted:lol op assuming i'm a good person And if they rub you right?
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Oct 20, 2019 16:55
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Literally A Person posted:And if they rub you right? Probably depends on who i s doing the rubbing.
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Oct 20, 2019 17:06
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