Vanity and Corruption

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calling someone out for repeating a piece of information that is already known, or not allowing someone to speak.. calling their opinion "naive" "simplistic" and
"unworthy of recognition/expression" is a result of 2 major IMPURITIES.. vanity and corruption (simply 2, for briefness sake)

vanity and corruption are at play when we take pride in the excess of: power, knowledge, wealth, life etc. that we possess.. it is when we don't appreciate the inception of whatever knowledge or information that gives us "value".. it is when we are content with the status quo and don't bother asking ourselves the question:
why the fuck am i so proud?? it is when we promote strict uniformity and repetitiveness.. quelling all anomalies that arise to question our "right" as incumbents
now please consider either of 2 dimensions..

consider TIME: as you grow up (or as you age though TIME) you realize that the simple tasks that you achieved as a achild
were in fact TRIVIAL.. in hindsight your adult and knowledgeable self laughs at the elation you felt when you were able to start snapping your fingers.. or you
may laugh at the fear you felt when under prepared for a single test (having taken many such tests as an adult.. and surprisingly done well)..
looking at things as an adult you begin to understand that time/aging have indeed diminished the value of your past self and past preoccupations..

now
consider SPACE: you are dropped into a jungle.. there are many paths to take.. and you don't know WHERE to find the basic resources that will help sustain
you.. you are frightened but you keep travelling anyway, in order to forage for something edible.. on your travels you find a water supply.. you find a cave that
can guard against predators or pests.. finally when you have travelled enough you stop considering the forest as some alien land.. instead you find that this jungle
is habitable.. travel enough within the bounds of this jungle and guess what?? the jungle becomes your home.
in hindsight you laugh at the seemingly neo-phobic person you were, some number of steps back.

now imagine watching yourself grow up.. only this time you from the future are the shepard to your younger self..
undoubtedly the redundancy will be apparent to you (i can imagine this is how parents or older siblings must feel).. obviously you will inform
and equip your younger self with whatever knowledge you possess.. priming your younger self, you will grant him/her knowledge of the future
choices he/she will face.. you will extinguish all potentially injurious notions that may lead to a pointless and time consuming path.. "don't smoke because everybody
else does".. "don't drive wrecklessly".. blah blah.. IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

now your younger-self grows up succinctly following your advice.. and guess what? avoiding all forecasted mistakes.. he/she effectively erases and replaces you
(a defective former self)... and guess what this improved version of yourself discovers? another jungle.. a much bigger one..
the cycle begins anew..

now a kink or delay between 2 subsequent cycles is a result of vanity and corruption..
out of our fear of the unknown we delude ourselves in being proud of our accomplishments.. we stagnate progress (progress is natural and ideal)
just to be celebrated as icons or idols..
all the while setting limits for those who follow..

like a shepard setting limits to sheep
like a parent setting limits for offspring..
like a government or regime setting limits for citizens..
like a hegemony or superpower setting limits for developing countries..

we cock our heads high.. self righteously assuming we know what is good for our kin and followers..
in the process we forget that we are flawed.. though we ask others to emulate us.. our image.. our personality.. our taste in music and entertainment
we forget that we are incomplete

we forget that if our lives were seen through the scope of space OR time we would always end up stretching the boundaries (making us relatively smaller than before)
and the future would almost always devalue the past.. rendering the past simplistic and trivial..

so i ask you: is there a reason for vanity and corruption?
is there a reason to feel irritated when someone repeats something that is already known?
is there a reason to relish and show case our accomplishments in EXCESS (for perverted reasons.. such as to establish supreme irrefutable superiority)?

the answer is simply: no.. the latter responses are unreasonable
we do not tolerate the repetitive enunciation of pre-existent ideas/designs because we do not appreciate evolution.. which heavily depends on innovation of pre-existent molds..
we masturbate to our own accomplishments forgetting that nothing is absolute.. and time and tide will eventually take their toll

New designs are meant to fill the audience with a sense of awe
but to make these designs our uniform.. to wear them everyday and incorporate them into the mundane, obstructs progress..
we become so dependent.. so desciplined that we are then afraid to question a life without them..
even though we realize how hollow and uncomplicated our uniforms have become, we fear all colorful deviations.. we fear that we will come to realize that our uniforms were never worthy symbols and had ready replacements..

in my opinion we need to come to terms with the following (to avoid obstruction of progress):

in hindsight EVERYTHING (yes even rocket science) becomes extremely obvious and trivial..
and someone has to get up and say:
lets get the obvious stuff out of the way..

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Viral114 wrote:calling someone out for repeating a piece of information that is already known, or not allowing someone to speak.. calling their opinion "naive" "simplistic" and
"unworthy of recognition/expression" is a result of 2 major IMPURITIES.. vanity and corruption (simply 2, for briefness sake)

vanity and corruption are at play when we take pride in the excess of: power, knowledge, wealth, life etc. that we possess.. it is when we don't appreciate the inception of whatever knowledge or information that gives us "value".. it is when we are content with the status quo and don't bother asking ourselves the question:
why the fuck am i so proud?? it is when we promote strict uniformity and repetitiveness.. quelling all anomalies that arise to question our "right" as incumbents
now please consider either of 2 dimensions..

consider TIME: as you grow up (or as you age though TIME) you realize that the simple tasks that you achieved as a achild
were in fact TRIVIAL.. in hindsight your adult and knowledgeable self laughs at the elation you felt when you were able to start snapping your fingers.. or you
may laugh at the fear you felt when under prepared for a single test (having taken many such tests as an adult.. and surprisingly done well)..
looking at things as an adult you begin to understand that time/aging have indeed diminished the value of your past self and past preoccupations..

now
consider SPACE: you are dropped into a jungle.. there are many paths to take.. and you don't know WHERE to find the basic resources that will help sustain
you.. you are frightened but you keep travelling anyway, in order to forage for something edible.. on your travels you find a water supply.. you find a cave that
can guard against predators or pests.. finally when you have travelled enough you stop considering the forest as some alien land.. instead you find that this jungle
is habitable.. travel enough within the bounds of this jungle and guess what?? the jungle becomes your home.
in hindsight you laugh at the seemingly neo-phobic person you were, some number of steps back.

now imagine watching yourself grow up.. only this time you from the future are the shepard to your younger self..
undoubtedly the redundancy will be apparent to you (i can imagine this is how parents or older siblings must feel).. obviously you will inform
and equip your younger self with whatever knowledge you possess.. priming your younger self, you will grant him/her knowledge of the future
choices he/she will face.. you will extinguish all potentially injurious notions that may lead to a pointless and time consuming path.. "don't smoke because everybody
else does".. "don't drive wrecklessly".. blah blah.. IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

now your younger-self grows up succinctly following your advice.. and guess what? avoiding all forecasted mistakes.. he/she effectively erases and replaces you
(a defective former self)... and guess what this improved version of yourself discovers? another jungle.. a much bigger one..
the cycle begins anew..

now a kink or delay between 2 subsequent cycles is a result of vanity and corruption..
out of our fear of the unknown we delude ourselves in being proud of our accomplishments.. we stagnate progress (progress is natural and ideal)
just to be celebrated as icons or idols..
all the while setting limits for those who follow..

like a shepard setting limits to sheep
like a parent setting limits for offspring..
like a government or regime setting limits for citizens..
like a hegemony or superpower setting limits for developing countries..

we cock our heads high.. self righteously assuming we know what is good for our kin and followers..
in the process we forget that we are flawed.. though we ask others to emulate us.. our image.. our personality.. our taste in music and entertainment
we forget that we are incomplete

we forget that if our lives were seen through the scope of space OR time we would always end up stretching the boundaries (making us relatively smaller than before)
and the future would almost always devalue the past.. rendering the past simplistic and trivial..

so i ask you: is there a reason for vanity and corruption?
is there a reason to feel irritated when someone repeats something that is already known?
is there a reason to relish and show case our accomplishments in EXCESS (for perverted reasons.. such as to establish supreme irrefutable superiority)?

the answer is simply: no.. the latter responses are unreasonable
we do not tolerate the repetitive enunciation of pre-existent ideas/designs because we do not appreciate evolution.. which heavily depends on innovation of pre-existent molds..
we masturbate to our own accomplishments forgetting that nothing is absolute.. and time and tide will eventually take their toll

New designs are meant to fill the audience with a sense of awe
but to make these designs our uniform.. to wear them everyday and incorporate them into the mundane, obstructs progress..
we become so dependent.. so desciplined that we are then afraid to question a life without them..
even though we realize how hollow and uncomplicated our uniforms have become, we fear all colorful deviations.. we fear that we will come to realize that our uniforms were never worthy symbols and had ready replacements..

in my opinion we need to come to terms with the following (to avoid obstruction of progress):

in hindsight EVERYTHING (yes even rocket science) becomes extremely obvious and trivial..
and someone has to get up and say:
lets get the obvious stuff out of the way..
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Viral114 wrote: lets get the obvious stuff out of the way..
Damn right!!!
"It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life because that's going to happen. All that matters is you gotta get up."

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Viral114 wrote:calling someone out for repeating a piece of information that is already known, or not allowing someone to speak.. calling their opinion "naive" "simplistic" and
"unworthy of recognition/expression" is a result of 2 major IMPURITIES.. vanity and corruption (simply 2, for briefness sake)

vanity and corruption are at play when we take pride in the excess of: power, knowledge, wealth, life etc. that we possess.. it is when we don't appreciate the inception of whatever knowledge or information that gives us "value".. it is when we are content with the status quo and don't bother asking ourselves the question:
why the fuck am i so proud?? it is when we promote strict uniformity and repetitiveness.. quelling all anomalies that arise to question our "right" as incumbents
now please consider either of 2 dimensions..

consider TIME: as you grow up (or as you age though TIME) you realize that the simple tasks that you achieved as a achild
were in fact TRIVIAL.. in hindsight your adult and knowledgeable self laughs at the elation you felt when you were able to start snapping your fingers.. or you
may laugh at the fear you felt when under prepared for a single test (having taken many such tests as an adult.. and surprisingly done well)..
looking at things as an adult you begin to understand that time/aging have indeed diminished the value of your past self and past preoccupations..

now
consider SPACE: you are dropped into a jungle.. there are many paths to take.. and you don't know WHERE to find the basic resources that will help sustain
you.. you are frightened but you keep travelling anyway, in order to forage for something edible.. on your travels you find a water supply.. you find a cave that
can guard against predators or pests.. finally when you have travelled enough you stop considering the forest as some alien land.. instead you find that this jungle
is habitable.. travel enough within the bounds of this jungle and guess what?? the jungle becomes your home.
in hindsight you laugh at the seemingly neo-phobic person you were, some number of steps back.

now imagine watching yourself grow up.. only this time you from the future are the shepard to your younger self..
undoubtedly the redundancy will be apparent to you (i can imagine this is how parents or older siblings must feel).. obviously you will inform
and equip your younger self with whatever knowledge you possess.. priming your younger self, you will grant him/her knowledge of the future
choices he/she will face.. you will extinguish all potentially injurious notions that may lead to a pointless and time consuming path.. "don't smoke because everybody
else does".. "don't drive wrecklessly".. blah blah.. IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

now your younger-self grows up succinctly following your advice.. and guess what? avoiding all forecasted mistakes.. he/she effectively erases and replaces you
(a defective former self)... and guess what this improved version of yourself discovers? another jungle.. a much bigger one..
the cycle begins anew..

now a kink or delay between 2 subsequent cycles is a result of vanity and corruption..
out of our fear of the unknown we delude ourselves in being proud of our accomplishments.. we stagnate progress (progress is natural and ideal)
just to be celebrated as icons or idols..
all the while setting limits for those who follow..

like a shepard setting limits to sheep
like a parent setting limits for offspring..
like a government or regime setting limits for citizens..
like a hegemony or superpower setting limits for developing countries..

we cock our heads high.. self righteously assuming we know what is good for our kin and followers..
in the process we forget that we are flawed.. though we ask others to emulate us.. our image.. our personality.. our taste in music and entertainment
we forget that we are incomplete

we forget that if our lives were seen through the scope of space OR time we would always end up stretching the boundaries (making us relatively smaller than before)
and the future would almost always devalue the past.. rendering the past simplistic and trivial..

so i ask you: is there a reason for vanity and corruption?
is there a reason to feel irritated when someone repeats something that is already known?
is there a reason to relish and show case our accomplishments in EXCESS (for perverted reasons.. such as to establish supreme irrefutable superiority)?

the answer is simply: no.. the latter responses are unreasonable
we do not tolerate the repetitive enunciation of pre-existent ideas/designs because we do not appreciate evolution.. which heavily depends on innovation of pre-existent molds..
we masturbate to our own accomplishments forgetting that nothing is absolute.. and time and tide will eventually take their toll

New designs are meant to fill the audience with a sense of awe
but to make these designs our uniform.. to wear them everyday and incorporate them into the mundane, obstructs progress..
we become so dependent.. so desciplined that we are then afraid to question a life without them..
even though we realize how hollow and uncomplicated our uniforms have become, we fear all colorful deviations.. we fear that we will come to realize that our uniforms were never worthy symbols and had ready replacements..

in my opinion we need to come to terms with the following (to avoid obstruction of progress):

in hindsight EVERYTHING (yes even rocket science) becomes extremely obvious and trivial..
and someone has to get up and say:
lets get the obvious stuff out of the way..
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is it just me or viral just comes in every 2-3 months and makes a thread like this one
i think he made one like that for TTOL

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