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I've spent some time getting to know eastern spirituality. I picked non-dualistic tantra as my poison. After that it was easy to see how people can seem so aloo
by ljm 7y ago
I've spent some time getting to know eastern spirituality. I picked non-dualistic tantra as my poison. After that it was easy to see how people can seem so aloof after learning of it (while still being compassionate).
The scripture tackles this head-on, more or less attributing it to the chaos of the universe, and that there is no notion of good and bad.
Eventually it goes on to share some examples, but they all follow the same pattern: if someone committed murder out of passion—and you were ready to judge them for it or offer them the death penalty—could you absolutely, unequivocally, certainly say—without any doubt–that you would not do the exact same thing in their shoes? In their exact circumstances, their state of mind? With heir psychosis or their grief or their desperation?
If you were to physically embody that other person and their consciousness, would you know better than they did?
The answer is always no.
In that same vein, you have your deeply metaphysical counter-argument to the point you're making.
Do you support the death penalty? Well, what if you committed the same crime and got put on death row?
Do you support censorship and authoritarianism? Well, what if the opposition gets into power and uses that against you?
There's no notion of it being wrong or right; it just challenges how happy you are to accept it as a fact of life and not just a temporary advantage in your favour.
- umvi 7y agoIt seems like the whole argument boils down to "people don't have free will; you would have been a murderer too had you been born with the same parents under the same circumstances, etc."