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In the most chuuni way possible, can you tell me what you believe in?

1 Name: Mako 2024-05-01 07:20
I believe I'm microchipped among many other things (too shy to open up about it)
2 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-01 14:16
I used to believe I could punch rock and metal without getting hurt
3 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-01 19:49
I'm an atheist, i'm a physicalist, a moral anti-realist, georgist who believes in market socialism, an environmentalist.
4 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-02 05:38
I believe that ritual human sacrifice is not only good but necessary. I am a xenofeminist. I believe in the second essay of the geneology of morals. I believe that akiba culture is (was) the most advanced product of human society so far. I believe in cybernetics.
5 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-02 08:22
I believe in very little. This is because I don't want to risk feeling wrong in the future.
6 Name: Rita Mordio, Genius Researcher 2024-05-02 09:08
i believe that this world is just a show for the thing(s) beyond the curtain. it's such a funny world. it's such a horrible world. at least there is consolation to be found in knowing that i'll only have to live in it once. well i really hope that that is the case 'cause i'd be pissed if i woke up after leaving this body only to have to inhabit another like it.
i believe that one should always know how to use different weapons (from fists to firearms, from blunt household items to knives and swords) and regularly train with them. it would be a pity for one to be unable to rely on their own body's ability to defend itself.
i believe that i was meant to be a housewife but fail at owing up to that due to my inability to maintain a sleep schedule and lack of belief in the existence of "true love" (and also due to me being born male).
i also believe that monsters exist in this world, and that every living creature (including and perhaps especially trees and plants) is one.
7 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-02 09:22
I've been the target of attacks by demons, angels, and an evil wizard. Also the government wants me dead.
8 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-02 17:22
I believe I can fly
9 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-03 09:41
I am actually pretty retarded but as this requires me to go over everything much more carefully I believe this will eventually make me better than everyone else
10 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-04 02:41
i belive MY LIFE IS A NEVER ENDING PANIC ATTACK
11 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-05 00:43
Well I've never told anyone this for fear of being called crazy but I believe I'm an alien with a fractured soul, all fragments having grown, changed and evolved independently from each other but still linked and symbiotic with one another. My existence and thoughts have a direct effect on the human race.
12 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-06 14:24
Not I, Not Mine, Not Myself
13 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-06 21:34
I believe in friends and laughter and the wonders love can do, I believe in songs and magic and that's why I believe in you!
14 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-08 13:35
I know this sounds like something coming from a schizophrenic drug addict but I promise I have never done hard drugs in my life, the only drugs I have ever consumed was small amounts of alchohol from communion when I was still a christian.
While I don't believe in religion, I believe the abrahamic hell is the closest thing to what reality is. The suffering is completely incomprehensible. Every second of our lives life is passing in and out of us, all continuing on the cycle of suffering. Even if we die, we will decompose and be absorbed into other beings. And even then, it's not like we disappear out of existence, our atoms haven't gone anywhere. Identity is just an illusion of consciousness, as we are everything and everything is us. The suffering is also endless, as our existence is bound to die and be rebirthed over and over again, likely for eternity.
To give an example of what I mean: even if I wanted to kill myself right now, while I would temporarily end the suffering my consciousness endures, my body would still be passed on to other organisms however small or large. Those organisms would continue to suffer and be passed on to other organisms, this is a process that has already happened throughout our entire lives, and trying to comprehend the amount of suffering that has branched off of the body your consciousness has inhabited is impossible, let alone what has been passed on to you. This process will continue to happen for eternity, and while my conciousness may cease to exist, my body has not, and therefore the suffering has not. The heat death of the universe may happen, but so will the big bang, there is no end.
My outlook on life isn't necessarily nihilism however, my belief is that because it is completely impossible to end the suffering, the best thing we can really hope to do is just live our best lives with as little suffering as possible, and where possible lessen the suffering of others. Long term I think the only real thing we can hope for is for someone to find the reason why and how we exist, and find a way to end suffering for good.
15 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-08 14:39
try out a gaming addiction or fps games, you'll see the endless human suffering their too if you're into that
16 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-09 05:16
>>14
Have you given Buddhism a try? They're all about ending suffering by ending desire.
17 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-09 08:29
Not sure if this world has to be suffering, but it does often seem to be. I'm not sure I buy the idea that suffering is the result of desire. Pain can exist without desire not to experience it, but I suppose pain needn't be "suffering" in that case, eh.
My read of Buddhism is more about going with the energy flows around us rather than attempting to divert those flows. Not necessarily as a means to be free from suffering but rather in acknowledgement and reification of ones place within the universe. Desire is of course a big part of that: ego wanting to be different or to have different things. But with focus on desire as answer to suffering, I feel like the bigger picture is lost, and more it creates a paradox of desiring to be free of desire. If instead the focus is on the flows around us and how we effect them, the paradox never need arise.
Little wonder that Buddhism took off in places with ridged caste systems, and that it's now taking root in the west where a new caste system is currently crystalizing.
18 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-09 12:35
Yet to claim that desire is illusion is to say that it has no
support, prospect, or aim, that it is not something ultimate, or in
Buddhist formulations "empty", devoid of self identity or essence.
Illusion is related to ordinary experience of duality, whilst the truth is
realised in the experience of non-duality. The experience of non-
duality implies also the ordinary experience of duality, otherwise there
could be no such experience of non-duality as a truth beyond the

illusions of duality. The experience of non-duality is also described as
that of "emptiness" such that: "The emptiness of emptiness is the fact
that not even emptiness exists ultimately, that it is also dependent,
conventional, nominal, and, in the end, that it is just the everydayness
of the everyday" (Garfield & Priest, 2003: 15).
Freud who was perhaps (mis)informed on Buddhism through a
reading of Schopenhauer, used the term nirvana in Beyond the
Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920g) and even established a distinct
principle with the name of nirvana principle (and related this to the
death drive). Freud likened the goal of Buddhism to the move towards
zero energy or force, and the death drive is connected with
immortality (cf Laplanche, 1976). Lacan argues that Buddhist nirvāṇa
should not be viewed as reduction to nothingness, the kind of negation
involved being very particular: a not to have, a certain freedom from
the cycle of suffering, correlated with the experience of non-duality.
What is involved in the Buddhist practitioner's relation to nirvāṇa as
the desired state of being, is articulated in "every formulation of
Buddhist truth" (Lacan, 2014 [1962-1963]: 223), in terms of non-
dualism, or the One. For Lacan nirvāṇa is not negation and is
misinterpreted as nihilistic, as a pure reduction to nothingness, but a
not to have, in which we can hear a response to desire. A desire to
extinguish desire is in itself still a desire and "if there is an object of
your desire, it is nothing other than yourself" (Lacan, 1962-1963:
08.05.63, 10). If Lacan introduces the objet a as essential to desire,
indeed its cause, he claims "the business of dualism and non-dualism
take on a completely different relief" (Lacan, 2014 [1962-1963]: 223).
If it is a question not of an imaginary projection of an inside onto an
outside in relation to the object of desire, that which is "myself" on the
outside is not projected there but cut off from me. In order to illustrate
the meaning of non-dualism Lacan provides two examples taken from
his experience of Buddhism. The first is the reference to the mirror
within Buddhism especially with the enigmatic "mirror without
surface in which nothing is reflected" (Ibid.:223). Buddhist experience
for those who practice and live it, Lacan suggests, "presupposes a
striking reference to the function of the mirror in our relationship to
the object" (Lacan, 1962-1963: 08.05.63, 10). Lacan had made he
claims an allusive reference to this surfaceless mirror long ago in his
paper on psychical causality (Lacan, 2006 [1946]: 123-158). It is with
regard to the sense that can be given to the function of the mirror in
this dialectic concerning the recognition of what we contribute or not
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20 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-09 18:10
>>17
Pain can exist without desire not to experience it
Yes, I agree. There's suffering caused by holding onto certain ideas beyond the point they are useful or practically applicable and then there's physical pain.
My read of Buddhism is more about going with the energy flows around us rather than attempting to divert those flows.
Energy flows? Could you please be more literal? If it's a metaphor for something.
Not necessarily as a means to be free from suffering but rather in acknowledgement and reification of ones place within the universe.
Reification of ones place within the universe? Do you mean the acceptance of one's place in socio-economic hierarchies rather than rebelling against them?
I feel like the bigger picture is lost
What is the bigger picture? Socio-economic factors determining social structures?
a paradox of desiring to be free of desire.
Just view it as a simple pragmatic tool, as a crutch till you can walk, as a means to an end. If desiring to be free from desire leads to the reduction of desire then the contradiction doesn't really matter. Perhaps the next step from there is to get rid of the desire to be free from desire itself but even if it's not, it's still a net gain in peace and clarity of mind.
If instead the focus is on the flows around us and how we effect them
Again I am not exactly sure what you mean by "flows around us" but if you mean having an affect on the material world there's a limit to how much we as individuals can affect the world. For instance we can't stop ageing and death.
Little wonder that Buddhism took off in places with ridged caste systems
It's funny you say that, cause I hear that a lot on a certain imageboard too. Look, if you want to you can interpret Buddhism as anti-caste system, so I think it's a matter of people's intention in reading a text, especially religious and complex ideological texts which can be highly ambiguous.
it's now taking root in the west where a new caste system is currently crystalizing.
I am not sure about America but in Europe I see more of a turn towards European Paganism than Buddhism... Then again Buddhism in places like Japan has been an upper class thing, so there's a remote possibility that the ruling caste picks it up and then forces it on the masses. It's just that when I look demographic projections, I don't really see a massive spike in the percentage of Buddhists.
21 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-09 18:36
>>20
Energy flows?
literally any flow of energy. that could be a physical movement or a monetary transaction or the spreading of a meme, etc. It's not a metaphor it is literal and the most "correct" explanation i can think of for what i understand.
Do you mean the acceptance of one's place in socio-economic hierarchies rather than rebelling against them?
That would be a skewed view of it. if you are meant to cut wood, you could look at the socio-economic situation of being a person who cuts wood, but also the act of cutting wood itself isn't "socio-economic" there is a "way" to cut wood, one that goes with the energy flows to minimize waste, with the grain, leveraging the pivot points on the ax, etc.
of course I do think the reason buddhism philosophy is spread is because it placates those at the bottom of the social order and labels rebellion against that order as sin. so in practice i wouldn't disagree, but taken as a personal philosophy I don't think "social order" is the correct focus. it's more like "clean your damn room, because it makes using the room more efficient"
limit to how much we ... can affect the world
see: "recognition and reification of ones place within the universe." the limits put someone into a place.
anti-caste system
no, i mean exactly the opposite.
possibility that the ruling caste picks it up and then forces it on the masses
yes.
i'm not talking about people "becoming buddhist" with what i said with it taking off in the west. I mean the principles and ideologies have begun worming their way into popular media and talking heads, very early days, but noticeable, more on the left than the right. I doubt there would ever be a proper rise in buddhism but rather, the secular world is becoming and will become more and more dao flavored.
22 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-11 01:13
>>19
if you say so... >L)
23 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-14 20:35
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These are quotes/paragraph from a philosopher of the Kyoto School of Japan Keiji Nishitani in which he describes his zen inspired metaphysics maybe it ties into or clarifies what you are saying or not but maybe it can clarify some stuff:

"Sunyata is the point at which we become manifest in our own suchness as concrete human beings, as individuals with both body and personality. And at the same time, it is the point at which everything around us becomes manifest in its own suchness. As noted before, it can also be spoken of as the point at which the words "In the Great Death heaven and earth become new" can simultaneously signify a rebirth of the self. Even though this be spoken of as a "rebirth," what is meant here is the appearance of the self in its original countenance. It is the return of the self to itself in its original mode of being."

"To say that a certain thing is situated in a position of servant to every other thing means that it lies at the ground of all other things, that it is a constitutive element in the being of every other thing, making it to be what it is and thus to be situated in a position of autonomy as master of itself. It assumes a position at the home-ground of every other thing as that of a retainer upholding his lord. The fact that A is so related to B, e, D . .. amounts, then, to an absolute negation of the standpoint of A as master, along with its uniqueness and so, to its "being." In other words, it means that A possesses no substantiality in the ordinary sense, that it is a non-self-nature. Its being is a being in unison with emptiness, a being possessed of the character of an illusion.
Seen from the other side, however, the same could be said respectively of B, C, D . . . and every other thing that is. That is to say, from that perspective, they all stand in a position of servant to A, supporting its position as master and functioning as a constitutive element of A, making it what it is. Thus, that a thing is -its absolute autonomy-comes about only in unison with a subordination of all other things. It comes about only on the field of sunyata, where the being of all other things, while remaining to the very end the being that it is, is emptied out. Moreover, this means that the autonomy of this one thing is only constituted through a subordination to all other things. Its autonomy comes about only on a standpoint from which it makes all other things to be what they are, and in so doing is emptied of its own being."
24 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-15 17:48
25 Name: Anonymous 2024-05-16 07:47
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should've used catbox!
26 Name: Anonymous 2024-09-01 12:15
can we revive this thread?? i want to know more of denpa beliefs
27 Name: Anonymous 2024-09-01 12:21
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28 Name: Anonymous 2024-09-01 14:29
i belive in the unstoppable >0<)! undefeatable power of effort AND how it can never let you down, life will let you down, highs will let you down, but like the sun and its light EFFORT WILL NEVER LETT YOU DOWN
29 Name: Anonymous 2024-09-01 14:42
oh I also believe heat(energy) throughout the body can be manipulated through taiji like movements and breathing

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