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• lazide 3y ago
  As it always has. Doesn’t change anything I said though. Though we have gotten better at doing it at scale, eh? ‘The wheel’ turns. It’s what it does. Trying to stop it just results in being crushed under it. Trying to break it, or change it, just results losing any ability to steer we might have had, and uncontrollable direction with more resulting damage. Realizing that, working to understand it and perhaps help steer it instead of stopping it, can sometimes produce better outcomes and less pain. No guarantees though. In the end, existence is what happens, not what we wished had happened. Delusion has a very, very strong draw though. In many cases, it’s the foundation that society is built on. Trying to control existence causes pain. Trying to deny it, causes pain. Life always includes some pain - it has to. Pain is reality trying to teach us something. It rarely goes away if we refuse. If we like that or not, does not matter to it, and never has.