silent hill protagonist
Anon's friend is Buddhist
Submitted 10 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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digitalnuisance@lemm.ee 24 minutes ago
Tabooki@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Sounds like buddism to me
benni@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Umm, hello, is this the Based department? I’d like to report someone…
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I bet his friend is never worried about stupid shit.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 hours ago
I’d be worried about rats nibbling my nutsack while I sleep on the floor of an abandoned factory.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
That is a basic survival worry. I tend to believe that humans faced with real survival issues are less negatively impacted than those who have material worries.
My stress about work is killing me.
My stress about not freezing to death leads me to do things like chopping wood, lighting fires, and maintaining my chimney. Which are all good things.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Fake: Anon has friends Gay: Imaginary friend is a guy
Open and shut case.
yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Post-industrial Buddhism is what it is. Yeah like it’d be great to do that in a cave or forest or open prairie but who the fuck can afford those things?
Abandoned buildings are free as long as you don’t fuck with the native inhabitants’ meth.
Droechai@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
I would just worry of asbestos or heavy metal contamination in the buildings, especially if I’m sleeping on or near the floor
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
who the fuck can afford those things?
Anybody? Where do you live that hanging out in the forest costs money?
currycourier@lemmy.world 8 minutes ago
Actually the larger parks near me (the only places that have enough trees to qualify as something close to a forest) do cost money (american city metro area)
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Transportation to and from the forest isn’t free.
Also some places have laws against camping on public land to discourage homelessness and these would likely fall afoul of those.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
In the middle of a city, which doesn’t have nearby forests.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.kya.moe 2 hours ago
Easter Island
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
What forest? Most people live nowhere near a forest
noretus@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Weird only to a mind that’s used to being constantly bombarded with low quality entertainment, lulled into comfortable numbness with mostly unnecessary material goods. While this is overly extreme (and potentially hazardous… though that being 4chan it’s probably exaggerated, if even true), most people would do well to take periods of disconnecting entirely and have minimal entertainment available. Zen Buddhist retreats are great by my experience. Yoga Retreats are nice but you need to weed out the ones that are really just masturbatory Wellness holidays for rich white women. Vipassana retreats are probably good too tho I personally haven’t been to one of those. But just starting meditation would be great. www.wakingup.com is a low bar access point with guided meditations but also a lot of great philosophical discussions from several different branches of thought (notably Stoicism and Buddhism but others too).
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
Shout-out to my man Sam.
I know a lot of people here hate him for his political takes, but his meditation app can be divorced from his podcast career. His science based approach to meditation, with no spiritual conflation is so refreshing.
I’ve had so many life changing realizations about my own mind thanks to him. His efforts to emphasise the outcomes of compassion and stoicism in the face of hostility have changed my outlook on engaging with abrasive people, and is one of the most important lessons I’ve learnt in a long time.
Furthermore, the realization that free will is an illusion helps to change how you view people who annoy you. They’re victims of their own minds, and slaves to every prior cause in their life. Forgiveness and tolerance are both rational, and impossible perspectives to deny, once you can see it clearly.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Anon’s friend is just Batman going through his early training montage.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Uh… that isn’t normal.
Honey, there hasn’t been an ounce of “normal” anywhere since at least 2021.
uuldika@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
oof, never thought I’d see the baseline for “normal” set to after covid.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Jeez. I totally meant to type 2001, not 2021.
danekrae@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
*in america…
BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Supply of “normal” is increasingly limited outside of it, too.
Jay@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
This is a bit intense but praxticrs like this have been used not only by the Buddhists but also the internet’s favourite emperor Marcus Aurelius for example. It seems to be really good for you. For a more feasible exercise just tape a square onto the floor and only leave that box for hygiene, work, food and walks. You sleep in the box you meditate in the box and you exercise in the box.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
That just sounds like my bedroom
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
That square is my bed and my therapist was concerned when I said I didn’t leave it.
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
My initial reaction, the socially acceptable one, was akin to “oh, wow, that’s weird.” After I gave it a minute, though… Gotta say, if I could be certain of the facct that I wouldn’t be interrupted in any way and had full control over the situation… yeah, that actually sounds like a nice getaway…
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Honestly, I’d bring water and food. Why starve and suffer when you can not suffer. I know, worldly attachments and shit, but I never got the part about intentionally suffering. That is just like those Christian zealots that self-flagellated for their sins, just more passive.
But other than that, it sounds like a dream vacation.
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Agreed, at least around water, my kidneys are hyperactive and need constant lubrication. Food, though… meh…
And I wouldn’t do it for the suffering, I would genuinely do it for relaxation, like a full habitat sensory deprivation chamber.
What I do for suffering is try to face the sun for longer than I feel comfortable, the whole idea of self-immolation being purifying and such. I can see why some would think that, baking in the sun really does a wonderful job at bringing me back to the present through widespread pain.
solomon42069@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Wow, intolerant much? Lots of people are Buddhists!
HorreC@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
what part of that isnt normal? The area in which we sleep can be what ever, is it just that he is alone with his own thoughts and does minimal food (most would just do rice only during these things)?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Old factory’s a bad choice. Suspended particulate matter from industry long past can ruin your lungs. Caves can be better, if there aren’t any bats or stabby bugs. As an aside, what’s the deal with humans and bats each hosting diseases that wipe the other out?
There’s likely a monastery nearby, or a field, or a forest where you can get the same experience. A tent covered with blackout curtains costs little and dampens what little sound and light you’ll find.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
Agreed. Besides industrial waste, old factories often have motion-detector silent alarms. If not, they may have squatters who may or may not be cool with intruders. If not, if you have some kind of medical emergency it might be months before you are found.
Comment-OP, minimal food’s not really necessary - one of the things about Gautama Buddha is that he gave up mortifying the flesh. And you definitely shouldn’t dehydrate yourself bc that can cause organ damage.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
It’s normal. Anon is just detached from reality.
"All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal
dumbass@leminal.space 9 hours ago
The only part I find weird is the starving/dehydrating part, the rest sounds pretty cool.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 minutes ago
but in this crazy crazy world, is normal so good?