Comment on Anon finds enlightenment
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand the analogy it’s a simple question
Comment on Anon finds enlightenment
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand the analogy it’s a simple question
hayvan@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the joke. A simple and completely preference-based question is answered in unnecessarily indirect way, with deep-sounding fake philosophic phrases.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Coins or bills is also just preference.
hayvan@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
It is making fun of a specific format. Buddhist lessons usually go this way, someone has a question in mind, asks a guru, the guru replies with another question, and then the seeker gets enlightened.
This joke is brilliant because, like any good parody, it works well as an example of what it parodies.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As someone who reads a truly absurd number of xianxia novels and having heard more buddist lessons and middle way philosophy then most.
I laughed for a good while at this meme. I can confirm is pretty dang accurate.
texture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thats the joke