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The CEO asked, "What are you doing?"

The man replied, "Wasting my time until I'll get paid."

The CEO was furious, "What is your weekly salary!?"

Man, "1000$"

The CEO counted 2000$ and gave it to the man, "Take this money and get out! You don't work here anymore!"

The man silently took the money and left.

CEO walked up to the reception, "By the way, who was this guy?"

The receptionist said, "Pizza delivery".

History has this air of exoticity but it's all just decor, when you dive a bit you realize that all these Ancient Emperors are the same people that you encounter in your daily life and you can find many similarities between some of your coworkers and the ancient tyrants, they just happened to be in different circumstances and I don't care about my coworkers life so I started to don't care about the Ancient Emperors either.

They arrive at an American factory.

Carter announces: "Gentlemen, starting tomorrow, your wages will be cut by 5%!". The next day, there are labor strikes at the factory.

They arrive at a Soviet factory.

Brezhnev declares: "Gentlemen, starting tomorrow, your wages will be cut by 5%!". The Russians keep working.

Brezhnev cut wages in half. The Russians keep working.

Brezhnev declared that there would be no wages at all. The Russians keep working.

Brezhnev finally announces: "Tomorrow, you will all be hanged!" Amid the workers' meeting, there was some murmuring. Carter nudges Brezhnev's elbow: "See, it's started!"

Someone's hand rises in the middle of the room: "Should I bring the rope and soap with me from home or would the factory committee provide us with them?"

Picaresque books were extremely popular among the common everyday people. They were realistic stories about an immoral lower class adventurer character who by using his wit outsmarts and scams people of various classess by exploiting their sins. They were a social satire where people's bad character was used against them and exposed hypocrisy. In modern pop culture there's almost no classic picaresque adventure in the same vein as the classic ones from what I've seen.

Вообщем я хочу в армию у меня как раз срочка горит ну я и пришел в военкомат, мне дали там бумажку тест на психику и интеллект и ушли. Я боялся что могу там чето не то написать и достал телефон стал списывать ответы. Потом заметил что там камера стояла и мне страшно стало может ли со мной что-то плохое быть за то что ответы списал

So I really love Simplicius Simplicissimus(and the Simplician Cycle in general) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and Journey to the End of the Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine and would love to read more works like that

They're intensely edgy, violent, amoral and nihilistic. They're laughing at human suffering and morality while being funny while doing it. Yet they're still thought provoking and interesting to read because the authors genuinely experienced what they written about.

Grimmelshausen was an orphan who was kidnapped by Hessian soldiers when he was 10 and forced to serve as a musketeer child soldier during the devastating Thirty Year's War.

Celine fought in WW1 and was wounded in action, lived in the colonial Africa and witnessed the suffering inflicted by colonialism, then worked as a doctor in the 1920s-1930s poorest Parisian suburbs witnessing the suffering of the poor, their sins and how human bodies decay from illness.

Idk I just love it when such authors turn suffering turn into an absurd comedy without much moral preaching.

>8.PREDICTION ABOUT SPREAD OF PERFECT WISDOM. Moreover, these Sutras associated with the six perfections will, after the passing away of the Tathagata, appear in the South. From the South they will spread to the East, and from there to the North-from the time when the Dharma-Vinaya is like freshly made cream right into the period when the good law disappears. Those who at that time study and preserve this perfection of wisdom will be brought to mind by the Tathagata; the Tathagata will know, sustain and see them, and behold them with his Buddha-eye.

>Sariputra: Will even this so deep perfection of wisdom in the last time, in the last period, be widespread in the northern direction, in the northern part of the world? The Lord: Those who, in the North, will make efforts in this deep perfection of wisdom after they have heard it, [226] they will make it widespread. As set out for long in the vehicle should the Bodhisattvas be known who will study this perfection of wisdom then.

This looks to be very prophetic

South = Indian continent

East = China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam

North = Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan

The exact order in which the Buddhism in It's full form spread in Asia.

>the time when the Dharma-Vinaya is like freshly made cream right into the period when the good law disappears

The spread of a stable Buddhism to Tibet happened right around the time when Indian Buddhism was destroyed. A key moment in Buddhist history as the destroyed Indian monasteries of Nalanda and Vikramashilawa were previously overflowing with eminent monks and thinkers, they were the historical peak of Buddhism producing almost the entirety of Mahayana and Vajrayana thought(apart from Buddha himself) and modern non-Theravada Buddhism still largely sits on Nalanda shoulders

>Those who, in the North, will make efforts in this deep perfection of wisdom after they have heard it, [226] they will make it widespread

Modern Buddhism to West and other parts of the worlds was spread largely by Tibetan monks.

Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra is dated to be for sure made no later than the 1th century CE by the Western secular researchers, the oldest manuscript dates to the 1st century CE. What do y'all think?

I know it sounds like a trolling but I'm serious. During the Ediacaran period complex multicellular fauna has already existed but there were no predators yet. No violence existed anywhere and no life had to eat flesh of another in order to survive, the world peace.

There was also absolutely no competition over food because the ocean was so full of algae and bacterias that the life didn't even have mouths to eat, they just absorded food directly through their skin using osmotrophy, food and water was unlimited. Nowadays ocean is poorer and due to the competition over food not only you have to eat things yourself using your mouth, which is troublesome, but you can even starve! We live a hellish existence when compared to our ancestors.

Ediacaran was also the period when sex was invented.

— Скотина ты где был, с потаскухами изменял?

— Я с мужиками в карты играл.

— Я тебе не верю, проваливай отсюда, я подаю на развод!

— Ты как бы тоже проваливай, это больше не наша квартира.

So it's hard to explain, but I remember when I was a kid and a young teen I was more normal and had strong feelings regarding morality. Then, in my teenhood, very traumatic things happened to me, like the early death of my father, me being beaten multiple times by my physically strong stepfather until the floor was covered in my blood, war, having my hometown destroyed by said war, ostracization due to ethnicity and other things.

I remember how I suffered from injustice, but now I don't have a concept of morality whatsoever, or at least, it's very small. I see people now just as biological organisms who have minds mostly just for the purpose of eating and breeding and the other activities are largely in some way related to these two. They do things that they do depending on causality and morality is incompatible with the Universe and is very arbitrary. Because of the hard materialism that I suffer from, I see morality as just a construct made by social animals to maintain the group unity and, for example, solitary animals are observed to lack morality even when they are intelligent while social animals have morality even when they are primitive.

This doesn't mean that I do "evil" unbridled. I have empathy and do the kind things, but I do it just because I like doing it, not because I had a sense that it was the right thing to do, and I don't think that I'm better than the "evil" people. Likewise, when I do "evil" I don't believe that what I'm doing is justice or that such actions are ok because I or they deserve something, I just feel like doing something and attempt doing it. I don't understand the words "should", "deserve", "shouldn't" and other words related to it.

I have no pride, shame or self-esteem in any way because I don't think that I or anything has a value, I see only subjective desires everywhere. I'm just is. I don't think of myself as someone who is higher because I have no morality, I just recognize that I'm different from others and I don't think that there's anything wrong with people who do have morality.

When I'm harmed by someone I don't feel that what they did was wrong and feel offended about it. I think of it as just their nature and do what I can and want to do about it, it's kind of like when a sailor is hit by a storm he doesn't blame the nature so for me there's no difference between when I'm harmed by a human or by the universe itself in some way. I never feel wronged by Universe or blame it for giving me a bad fate. I might hate humans or universe but it's a reactive emotion that I don't justify based on their actions, just a feeling.

I see myself and others as just a set of conditions, if conditions would be different I would be different and they would be different, no evil or good exist here or anywhere in the world. I don't know It's just that there's some unexplainable internal thing within me relating to "should" and "shouldn't" that was lost because I remember having morality when I was a kid, I now view it as irrational from the position of Universe but deeply wired in humans.

This causes me to feel like I'm an alien, because everywhere, I see the morality in some way and I completely don't understand it. Social Media, for example, most of the posts and comments here are about how things should or shouldn't be, and I just don't understand them at all, like on the basis of what do things need to be this or another way? Things are just are and you can change them partially if you can and desire to do so, where do you even take the "should" part from??

Fiction, philosophy, history, politics and everything human is also all about the morality where even the most "evil" people justify their actions based on the morality that they deserve something, are better than others, victims deserve it etc. I genuinely never met or heard about another person like me, and it causes me confusion because I don't understand what I am, and so I write here, maybe there are others like me.

Because in newborns documentation he always wrote "ignorance" as mother and "craving" as father.

It was funnier in my head.

Other workers felt irritated and indignant. After a few days, they politely approached him when he was leaving:

— We're very sorry to disturb you Isamu, but why are you leaving so early in the past few days? Has something happened?

— I'm on unpaid vacation right now.

Like bro why do you make it personal about me, just say your point. And then when I come up with another refutation in the VERY NEXT "suppose someone argued as follows" he predicts it like ahh I want to smash this book on your face and make you eat these pages that your talentless foolish fingers scribbled

Белорус спрашивает:

— А почему меня оставили?

Каннибал отвечает:

— Дак это не первый корабль который здесь разбился. Мы раньше когда белорусов в котёл ложили они всегда успевали сожрать всю картошку в супе, а мы потом голодные ходили.

They were brought to the chief. The chief thought for a moment and set a condition:

"Name something we don't have, and you'll live. If you can't name it, we'll eat you!"

The Frenchman thought for some time, then said:

"You don't have blondes."

The chief laughed, clapped his hands, and the blondes were brought to him, and the Frenchman was promptly eaten. Now it was the American's turn. He thought for a moment and said:

"You don't have computers on your island!"

The chief burst out laughing and brought the American into the computer room. The American was promptly roasted and eaten. Then the Soviet said:

"Do you have the political bureau of the communist party?"

The cannibals pondered for a long time, trying to figure out what a political bureau was, but they couldn't figure it out. Then the leader threw up his hands and admitted sheepishly:

"You're right: we don't have a political bureau"

The Soviet was very surprised:

"Then why do you eat people?!"