No Bullshit - Ever ([info]wbm) wrote,
@ 2008-06-24 19:30:00
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Entry tags:new age but not crazy new age, zen

I Like Ken Korczak
He's as crazy as I am.

A sample:

I once wrote a column on popular web site. The article suggested that people should stop worrying about things simply because none of us have anything to worry about because of the obvious fact that none of us exist. The article spread like a virus across the Internet. In a short time, more than 1,000 posted responses suggesting that I was insane. Some people were insulted by my suggestion that they don’t exist, some called it a “whacked theory” and “mental masturbation” and a lot worse. I even got threatening e-mails.

Let me tell you, if you want to get people really upset, just suggest to them that they are not real, but only think they are real. Believe me, they will get extremely irritated with you. But why? It’s because people are heavily invested in the idea that they have an existence -- a real, solid existence. They want that. Even if their lives a miserable, boring and bland, they will feel threatened if you suggest that their miserable lives are not real. What’s interesting is that if people are happy and leading exiting, adventurous lives, they will be less threatened by the idea that their lives are bogus illusions. They won’t care as much. They’re happy anyway, so why should they mind if anything is real or not? Still, even some happy people will get upset if you tell them they don’t exist. Suddenly they are less happy because they are afraid of the idea that they are unreal. They want their happy existence to be real.



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[info]esmeralda_m
2008-06-24 11:39 pm UTC (link)
This is hillarious.

I don't care, but I'd ask him to provide evidence to support his claim.

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[info]wbm
2008-06-25 12:30 am UTC (link)
The article deals with basic Zen. Nothingness is everything & everything is nothing. Nothing exists, so nothing matters, & nothing matters, so nothing exists.

Dude spent 27 years meditating every day to realize that ultimate Zen enlightenment, the holy grail of Zen, is no big deal. Because it's nothing. I had to laugh.

And on a quantum level it's physically true.


At least I am not a number. lol

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[info]esmeralda_m
2008-06-25 12:51 am UTC (link)
27 years to realize that? Wow.... I hope he liked meditating.

I figure the whole *reason for existance* stuff is nonexistant, so make the best of it, and have a good time whie you're here.
Otherwise you may as well just shoot yourself.


That's my philosophy, anyway.

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[info]wbm
2008-06-25 01:17 am UTC (link)
...have a good time whie you're here.
Otherwise you may as well just shoot yourself.


Exactly. If life sucks that much, bullets are cheap.

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[info]esmeralda_m
2008-06-25 01:20 am UTC (link)
So, so true.


So is rope, so are razorblades, in the scope of things, so are pills.


And if you're gonna kill yourself, why be cheap? sell your house, buy an antique samurai sword, and gut yourself like a fish.

Speaking of the Watchmen, recognize my icon?

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[info]wbm
2008-06-25 05:38 pm UTC (link)
Cutie icon Rorschach - made of winningness :D

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[info]klaproth_1
2008-06-25 10:14 am UTC (link)
I'm not offended because he doesn't exist.

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[info]wbm
2008-06-25 06:23 pm UTC (link)
iawtc

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[info]ocpunkster
2008-06-25 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Mhhh... interesting.

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[info]wbm
2008-06-25 06:25 pm UTC (link)
I <3 Zen.

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