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vlyons

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4. which just shows that ignorance is all around us
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 03:19 AM
Oct 2014

We see ignorance every where, every day. I mean ignorance from the Buddhist perspective, which is believing that my sense of "self" is some real, solid thing that is the center of the universe and more important to maintain than anyone else's life or dreams. Ignorance takes many forms, but specifically, we recognize it to manifest as greed, anger, arrogance , envy, and stupidity. I used to get really angry and pissed off at the stupid and selfish Tbaggers, but anger is something that I am trying to diminish, not encourage. Mostly now, I experience great sadness for these people. It must be awful to go through life afraid of, and resisting liberalizing social changes, surrounded by people-not-like-me, and having my deeply held religious beliefs ridiculed and and considered irrelevant. They are so out of touch with how their world views just hold their pain in place. Their ignorance and petty resentments inflict so much pain on everyone else. They are very dangerous people. They only way any of them ever begin to wake up (if at all), is when some great tragedy enters their life, and they begin to understand that other people are also suffering.

Had it been me, I would have found a DPS officer and insisted that he ticket that car.

"Cognitive Dissonance Disorder" Midnight Writer Oct 2014 #1
Excellent analysis: Well done Populist_Prole Oct 2014 #2
Good list, Midnight Writer. bulloney Oct 2014 #7
Well stated, Midnight Writer. MarianJack Oct 2014 #9
All of the above ^ world wide wally Oct 2014 #3
which just shows that ignorance is all around us vlyons Oct 2014 #4
don't you mean "morans" redruddyred Oct 2014 #5
OOOPS! MarianJack Oct 2014 #10
Get a brain, moran!!1! blkmusclmachine Oct 2014 #6
the mentailty of teaparty/conservatives is filled with oxymoronic flaws beachbum bob Oct 2014 #8
Well Said. MarianJack Oct 2014 #11
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