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Religions have a history of making up bullshit reasons why suffering and being unhappy is the righteous path. Christianity promises you a happy afterlife for su
by meindnoch 3y ago
Religions have a history of making up bullshit reasons why suffering and being unhappy is the righteous path. Christianity promises you a happy afterlife for suffering in real life, Hinduism tells you that you're getting karmic credit points for your next life, etc. "facing your suffering" is just another iteration of this.
A more rational take on these teachings is that historically they were a tool of pacifying the masses to accept their abject poverty and squalor without revolting and imploding the social hierarchy. They make no sense in a post-scarcity world.
This is what I mean by religious bullcrap.
- bowsamic 3y agoI didn't mention any of that stuff though. Facing your suffering is the only way to understand truly how to solve it. You can keep running from it if you want but it will just catch up to you.
- gardenhedge 3y agoSays who?
- bowsamic 3y agoMe.
- vrc 3y agoHinduism doesn’t have “karmic credit points” and this is a misconception. Karma is the output of the totality of your life and its measurement is cosmically obscured. You can, however, be granted awesome boons by the various deities for extreme selfless acts of devotion —- demons included.