/lit/ - Literature

>>8953257
Why does it have to be one or the other? Can't you be a Buddhist with a Christian backgrounds or a Christian that takes the Buddhist position in mind? Neither religion is a monolith anyway, so what do you mean by "Christianity" and "Buddhism"? Protestantism, Catholocism or Orthodoxy? Theravada, Mahayana or Vajrayana? Or any of the hundred other more specific denominations? How can you expect *us* to take two of the oldest and most wide-spread religions in the world and say if they'll both fit *your* idea of your own life?

>>8470933
You're confusing an instinct which was necessary for organisms to have to exist up to the present point with a law--you're projecting the past into the future, forgetting the future is that which is different from what you know, and your notion of the past is extremely limited by virtue of it only being an echo. Nature has no goals or purposes, it does not want to go anywhere or obtain anything because it already *is* everything there is--you're correct in thinking reproductive denial would still be based on the Will to Live, but that will not make it somehow a thing of another world, because all the components that make that change possible are of this world.

Do you believe the first time a proto-cat used its claws to grab on a prey instead of a tree it became depressed like you folks are? Do you see despairful cats roaming the earth like the Wandering Jew, plucking their unholy nails out; or do they reap the benefits of their adaptations, not of necessity shunning their other properties?

And what's this "life" thing anyways? Do you mean existence? Because life doesn't only include biological things. Abstraction and raw matter are as much part of human life as being an organism is. The floor you're standing in and the ideas in your head are also part of your life. Oh, and your computer too, don't forget. So don't talk shit about machines, okay? The only reason you think they're a step down* is because you can't talk them into giving you what you want (just like all the other Things).

* But then all options save being a securely miserable human are a step down somehow, right?