What harsh truths have you learned lately?

Um, nothing's free...

cain006

it is if u steal .

That once your tire gets popped in GTA V while in a 5 star pursuit, your as good as dead.

konvikt_17

I've gotten away from the police with a popped tire in that game. Though to be fair, I can't recall if it was a 5 star pursuit. might have only been four.

[QUOTE="theone86"]How much meaning would this life have if there was life after death? When people know that some things are beautiful, other things become ugly. When people know that some things are good, other things become bad. So being and non-being create each other, difficulty and ease complement each other.pariah3

I have to disagree with your philosophy here.

I can easily envision a world in my mind where there is only good and no bad. Bad things happening serve no useful purpose at all. However I guess that such a heavenly place is only possible in a virtual reality and not outside it.

But no matter how evil and completely corrupt this world really is, the acceptence of how things really are is the path to true spirituality.

Sure, you can envision it, but does that make it real or even possible?  I can imagine plenty of things in my mind by taking an element of an already existing thing away.  I can imagine an elephant without a trunk, doesn't mean it can exist.  How could we tell if something was good if bad did not exist?  It wouldn't be good, it would just be, distinction would be meaningless.

Bad gives meaning to good.  Attachment leads to suffering, without loss we would not know attachment.  Our attachment makes loss inevitable, but the inevitability of loss gives our attachment value.  They are intrinsically linked to each other.  This is the nature of distinction, this is how things really are.  I understand the desire to oppose good and bad dichotomously, to try and posit that absolute good exists apart from anything bad, but that simply doesn't align with reality.  When we experience bad we desire good and when we experience good we are averse to bad.  How would you know light without knowing shadow?  How would you know the joy of being full without knowing hunger?  How would you know pleasure if there was no pain?  As you said, knowing how things really are is the path to spirituality.  This doesn't mean abstracting from the world we know because we think we can imagine a better one, this means embracing the way of the world we know.  This world isn't completely corrupt simply because bad exists, deny the bad and you also deny yourself the good.  Know the bad and you will fully appreciate the good.  If you wish to become whole, let yourself be partial.  If you wish to become straight, let yourself be crooked.  If you wish to become full, let yourself be empty.  If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

That the Seahawks have to lose eventually :(

There would always be people talking about you behind your back. 

Never go on a train alone at midnight.

College sucks.

The harsh reality of waiting for something that will never come.