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Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.
~ Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
True faith is not knowing and that being OK
~ Alan Watts
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~ Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
True faith is not knowing and that being OK
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Our libturds rot from within . . . .
Man has achieved his present position by being the most aggressive and enterprising creature on earth. And now he has created a comfortable civilization, he faces an unexpected problem... The comfortable life lowers man's resistance, so that he sinks into an unheroic sloth... The comfortable life causes spiritual decay.
~ Colin Wilson
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Man has achieved his present position by being the most aggressive and enterprising creature on earth. And now he has created a comfortable civilization, he faces an unexpected problem... The comfortable life lowers man's resistance, so that he sinks into an unheroic sloth... The comfortable life causes spiritual decay.
~ Colin Wilson
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Poor people today live better than George III did 200 years ago . . . .
Never before has the civilized world been so well-fed, so sheltered, so free from the primal struggles that once defined existence—and never before has it been so consumed by misery, anger, and the biting angst of meaninglessness.
Absorbed in comfort, we are restless. Drowning in excess, we are hollow. The statistics confirm what our souls already know: despair has metastasized, anxiety has become our natural state, and in the absence of real suffering, we have made a spectacle of our own discontent.
Progress has delivered everything except the will to endure it.
It was Ernest Becker who pointed out: “...early men who were most afraid were those who were most realistic about their situation in nature, and they passed on to their offspring a realism that had a high survival value. The result was the emergence of man as we know him: a hyper-anxious animal who constantly invents reasons for anxiety even where there are none.”
In the United States alone, Depression rates have been steadily rising for decades. More than 40 million American adults are riddled with an anxiety disorder.
A 2018 Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics study noted increasing diagnoses of anxiety and depression in young kids who are often treated with a regimen of pharmaceuticals.
In 2022, total drug overdose deaths hit 106,600, with opioids dominating the death march.
The question must be asked: Why?
Why are so many people flogged with depression and angst in an era of infinite possibilities? Why are so many people prone to anxiety in the safest, most prosperous time in history? With endless potential to change and set our own destinies, why are so many of us crushed by bitterness and anger and pummeled with an agonizing sense of meaninglessness?
And so on . . . .
Never before has the civilized world been so well-fed, so sheltered, so free from the primal struggles that once defined existence—and never before has it been so consumed by misery, anger, and the biting angst of meaninglessness.
Absorbed in comfort, we are restless. Drowning in excess, we are hollow. The statistics confirm what our souls already know: despair has metastasized, anxiety has become our natural state, and in the absence of real suffering, we have made a spectacle of our own discontent.
Progress has delivered everything except the will to endure it.
It was Ernest Becker who pointed out: “...early men who were most afraid were those who were most realistic about their situation in nature, and they passed on to their offspring a realism that had a high survival value. The result was the emergence of man as we know him: a hyper-anxious animal who constantly invents reasons for anxiety even where there are none.”
In the United States alone, Depression rates have been steadily rising for decades. More than 40 million American adults are riddled with an anxiety disorder.
A 2018 Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics study noted increasing diagnoses of anxiety and depression in young kids who are often treated with a regimen of pharmaceuticals.
In 2022, total drug overdose deaths hit 106,600, with opioids dominating the death march.
The question must be asked: Why?
Why are so many people flogged with depression and angst in an era of infinite possibilities? Why are so many people prone to anxiety in the safest, most prosperous time in history? With endless potential to change and set our own destinies, why are so many of us crushed by bitterness and anger and pummeled with an agonizing sense of meaninglessness?
And so on . . . .
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/0...timore_sun-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
Maryland’s eighth grade math, reading scores decline for over a decade
Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic.
Math and reading scores tested annually have steadily dropped for more than 10 years, with reading scores matching lows recorded in the mid-1990s in the state and math scores in a free fall.
Several education experts told The Baltimore Sun the reasons for the continual decline are unclear.
“The honest answer is, we don’t know,” said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Petrilli added that the trends in Maryland aren’t unlike the rest of the country.
No, that's the dishonest answer. If they have an honest bone in their being, it's because they really suck at what they're doing and they really don't give a fuck. Just as long as they can leech their retirement.
Motherfuckers!!!
Maryland’s eighth grade math, reading scores decline for over a decade
Eighth grade test scores in Maryland have been declining for many years — and not just because schools shut down during the coronavirus pandemic.
Math and reading scores tested annually have steadily dropped for more than 10 years, with reading scores matching lows recorded in the mid-1990s in the state and math scores in a free fall.
Several education experts told The Baltimore Sun the reasons for the continual decline are unclear.
“The honest answer is, we don’t know,” said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Petrilli added that the trends in Maryland aren’t unlike the rest of the country.
No, that's the dishonest answer. If they have an honest bone in their being, it's because they really suck at what they're doing and they really don't give a fuck. Just as long as they can leech their retirement.
Motherfuckers!!!
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Don't you have anything else to do except post schoolboy grievances on a pornboard?
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What is most essential to Buddhism is based on clarifying the mind. If you want your mind to be clear, it is important to put opinions to rest. If opinions are not stopped, then wrong and right are confused; if the mind is not clear, reality and illusion are mixed up. If you stop opinions and clear the mind, then reality and illusion are both empty, wrong and right do not stand.
~ Hsueh-yen
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
~ Alexander Humboldt
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~ Hsueh-yen
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
~ Alexander Humboldt
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Sez the guy who always manages to be standing in the back of the crowd, while someone else is whacking the fuck out of the pinata, and whining about not getting any of the candy.
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Unlike the ammosexual MAGAts, I don't care about candy or who might be whacking off a pinata. As reflected in my 12-year posting stats, Lit is not the center of my universe.
In the world of Lit's MAGAts Wat is Lord of the Flies.
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It takes about 4 hours to train them to be able to hit a man sized target at 500 yards . . .
with open/iron sights.
So says a fellow who would know.
Not sure how long it took me, but I figured it out on my own.
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with open/iron sights.
So says a fellow who would know.
Not sure how long it took me, but I figured it out on my own.
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