Selling Infinity
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:30 am
I sometimes think about the LDS blueprint plan: families are forever, it is sealed, a done deal. Follow the prophet, attend the temple, pay your tithings et. al.
Sometimes I wonder about Buddhism which stresses nonattachment and impermanency. People do become attached to other humans and other warm-blooded things such as a dog or cat, but humans can also attach to cars, antiques, jobs, real estate, and so on. Buddhism teaches impermanency and non-attachment. Impermanency lets us know that problems don’t last forever, and bliss isn’t permanent.
The evidence of impermanency is all around us, has been before us and will be here after we are gone. If you reach 85 years old, you’ve had around 3 billion heart beats and 700 million breaths and although it seems like a large number it is finite, not infinite. Many other warm-blooded mammals get less.
It seems the LDS church focuses on the infinite instead of evidence that things are finite, and they will sell you the infinite. By age 90 you’ve been here a long time, seen a lot, you can no longer run the track like you did at age 14, walking hurts, everything hurts. If you reach age 100, you sleep most of the day and can be thankful that this life is finite.
If you believe that pain and suffering are impermanent then you will likely reach peaceful times when you realize it. If you listen to those that sell the infinite, you will likely wonder if you made it, did you do enough and even during that time you will live at times in despair, pain and harm. Sometimes I don’t understand the LDS church selling the infinite. One can be in touch with the now through breathing, mindfulness and other concepts. You shouldn’t have to buy the infinite.
https://bycommonconsent.com/2024/04/18/ ... ore-122881
Sometimes I wonder about Buddhism which stresses nonattachment and impermanency. People do become attached to other humans and other warm-blooded things such as a dog or cat, but humans can also attach to cars, antiques, jobs, real estate, and so on. Buddhism teaches impermanency and non-attachment. Impermanency lets us know that problems don’t last forever, and bliss isn’t permanent.
The evidence of impermanency is all around us, has been before us and will be here after we are gone. If you reach 85 years old, you’ve had around 3 billion heart beats and 700 million breaths and although it seems like a large number it is finite, not infinite. Many other warm-blooded mammals get less.
It seems the LDS church focuses on the infinite instead of evidence that things are finite, and they will sell you the infinite. By age 90 you’ve been here a long time, seen a lot, you can no longer run the track like you did at age 14, walking hurts, everything hurts. If you reach age 100, you sleep most of the day and can be thankful that this life is finite.
If you believe that pain and suffering are impermanent then you will likely reach peaceful times when you realize it. If you listen to those that sell the infinite, you will likely wonder if you made it, did you do enough and even during that time you will live at times in despair, pain and harm. Sometimes I don’t understand the LDS church selling the infinite. One can be in touch with the now through breathing, mindfulness and other concepts. You shouldn’t have to buy the infinite.
https://bycommonconsent.com/2024/04/18/ ... ore-122881