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ooga booga, cave paintings on how fire make brain go bad?

>>15383825
>buddha idols exist, praying to buddha idols will not provide enlightenment
But it will provide merit, as will circling around a stupa, prostrating oneself to the Buddha a set amount of times, etc. Maybe in your wishy-washy Westernized sangha (if you even have one, which you probably don't) they hide those facts, but everywhere else, Buddhism pretty much involves prayer to the Buddha, at least for the laypeople.

>>13858456
You will turn into Grug

>>11831709
>OOGA BOOGA CALIBRE DIFFICULTVERY

>HE'S NOT AN ILLEGALIST DETERMINIST-FATALIST CRYPTO-ANARCHIST ROMANTICIST ACCELERATIONIST LIBERTINE

>>11448986
>MUH BOOK SMELZ
>MUH TEXTURE
>MUH WEIGHT

>>10777362
I'm not an expert on morality. I'm still in a formative stage. I have my own prior beliefs on it - as of now I believe there is a 'natural law' that is a basis for morality.

Let me try again:

Morality is a loaded word. Morality means different things to different people. THE THREAT OF ETERNAL PUNISHMENT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR MORALITY TO EXIST.

What is right is moral, and what is wrong is immoral. It is self-evidently true that progress, advancement, or development is better than degeneration or regression.

What advances or makes better is GOOD.
What degenerates or makes worse is BAD.

When something goes from being in a state of order to chaos, that is degeneration. Its bad.

When animals evolve and develop larger brains, higher intelligence and more advanced characteristics that is GOOD. Evolution is good.

>From this point it should be clear that incest is not good. Babies that are the product of incest, especially sibling or parent/child are genetically inferior. That is degenerate, its not good, therefore it is immoral. People who have incestuous relations are impulsed by their passions; passion isn't rational. Reason would show that incest is not good.

There's one rule. Thou shalt not commit incest.

I can't be assed writing more for other universally agreed upon things like murder, genocide, torture, etc. Just think: passion, chaos, degeneracy, not good.

Reason is how someone can understand what is good and what is not good. People with greater intelligence are able to understand abstract ideas, reason, and control passions more than less intelligent people. People who can't, wont see reason, or were motivated by a passion (revenge, anger, etc) are degenerate chimps with low IQs. They let the world act upon them. They're slaves to their chimp brain impulses. The implications of this aren't very nice.

I was just speculating - i'm not an expert on psychology. I believe guilt and shame aren't entirely social constructs. Psychopathology might offer a model for what is moral and immoral, at least with some acts. Remember, the normal brain - a fully-functioning brain free from mental illnesses and other disorders - is better than one that has these problems. One that does is degenerate. Not good. Blah blah blah, draw your own conclusions.

>INB4 dude you're a determinist.
>Saying it like its a bad thing.

>>10760485
>>10760573

>Ultimately

>>10722657

>No one is ever sincere when they seek redemption for their vices and past sins.

>>10707589
>some things humans do aren't natural

>out hunting with bare hands instead of knife
>catch animal
>muscle memory tell me to reach for knife
...
>too lazy to rip animal open with bare hands so just leave it
Knife bad. Why Za invent knife?

>>10446097
>weelyum leign crog

>me likey philosophy

>>10176360
>tfw can't read
You came to the right place

>Seeing cool pictures of Lenin and Stalin, and reverse-engineering favourable opinions of them and communism.
>Engaging in sophistry to defend a ridiculous ideology and unattainable political system.