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Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: “Question: How do you handle envy?” plus 5 more

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Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: “Question: How do you handle envy?” plus 5 more

Question: How do you handle envy?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:57 AM PDT

The object of desire is not required to give itself up to you even if you seek to obtain it with the ideal technique. Therefore, envy is a discontented or resentful longing for something which may never be yours. To envy means choosing to suffer because the universe is causal and you forgot that we're all one. Rather than envy, rejoice knowing the universe has order and does not favour some at the cost of others.

I feel like I'm writing a religious text lol. Basically, envy benefits no one, except perhaps an ego that defines flattery as a benefit. Sometimes people envy me. I'm flattered for a brief moment, but then I usually just tell them how much my life sucks and the envy disappears (along with all my self-esteem).

Question: Do you think everything is just perfect?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:50 AM PDT

"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."

Do you think the past, present and whatever will happen in the future is perfect, because it can't be otherwise. {Ultimately} reality is always perfect?

Question: Why do you think you are perfect?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:34 AM PDT

You're probably joking - but actually we are very near perfect in MOST ways. If we weren't nearly perfect, 24 hours a day, in organ function, heart beat, brain function, blood gasses and pressure, hormones and enzymes, immune system - we'd be dead in a few minutes. Life in an animal our size is a complete miracle each second that elapses.

So......... that's why I think you're perfect.

Question: Why do Christian embrace suffering and Buddhists suppress suffering?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:22 AM PDT

I disagree that Christians embrace suffering and that Buddhists suppress it.

Really, both Christianity and Buddhism strive for the same thing. To eliminate suffering.

Buddhism tries to eliminate suffering by eliminating attachments.

Christianity tries to eliminate suffering by eliminating sins.

Too faulty paths to the same impossible fantasy.

Question: What is "positive" nihilism called?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:43 AM PDT

If you could get all the nihilists in here to accept the second part of that definition nihilism would seek to exist.

Teenaged followed of nihilism (are there any other kind?) say "life is meaningless so why bother?" They never get to the "so create your own meaning" part.

I can't figure out what you want to replace "nothing" with to make it positive. The opposite of nothing is meaningful is SOMETHING is meaningful which covers everybody else except the skeptics and existentialists. Skeptics just disbelieve everything and existentialism says that ultimate truth -may- be unknowable so we have to create our own meaning ad hoc, so to speak.

The difference between the skeptics and the existentialists is the exies have a positive attitude towards unfounded belief and the difference between existentialists and nihilists is the exies do not have the godlike power to determine whether or not the universe has meaning. Science types just don't read their own definitions. They're exies too!

Question: Is it worth studying philosophy? Is it interesting?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:13 AM PDT

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