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Become a Buddhist. All this wanting's no good for you; just do stuff and enjoy it for no particular reason.

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Agreed, except that you don't need to become a Buddhist or anything else. Becoming things is part of the problem.

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Become a Buddhist. All this wanting's no good for you; just do stuff and enjoy it for no particular reason.

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Agreed, except that you don't need to become a Buddhist or anything else. Becoming things is part of the problem.

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I was really shocked to see someone give an answer similar to mine.

Desiring anything is bad. Desiring to end all desire is good. Ending all desire requires the eightfold path. The best way to acheive the eightfold path is to try for a while, fail, and then give up.

I love Buddhism and seriously think it's the absolute solution to sadness and frustration.

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Also, you set a goal to make pooh-bah, and you're not even close. You have 2 1/2 months, get busy posting porn links, "NH"s, and quoting what others have already said, and you should make it easily.


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NH.

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Exactly.

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Ending all desire requires the eightfold path.

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There are endless paths. And the Buddhists' 8-fold path is certainly a valid one.

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A while ago, I went home and visited my father for the first time in a long time, and when I was there I downloaded Partypoker to play one night. The next day, he went to the icon and renamed it "Addictive Sickness". I just laughed like I often do, and explained that without poker I wouldn't be surviving, which I think he even understands, but still... It really bugged me.


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I think maybe your poker goal setting problem is a red herring. I would guess that the TV event goal is really an attempt at changing minds about what you're doing (because everyone's a sucker for people on TV.)

I think maybe you'd be better served by looking for goals that are outside poker that are going to be more satisfying for you.

What that might be, is very hard to say without knowing you beyond what you've posted here.

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Desiring anything is bad. Desiring to end all desire is good.

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Well how can anyone argue with that airtight reasoning.

eastbay

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Ending all desire requires the eightfold path.

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There are endless paths. And the Buddhists' 8-fold path is certainly a valid one.

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They're all the same. While I'm not particularly well-versed in other methods, I've never heard any other religion or school or whatever articulate the absurdity of thought clearly.

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Desiring anything is bad. Desiring to end all desire is good.

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Well how can anyone argue with that airtight reasoning.

eastbay

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That's the point. If you think about that for long enough you just quit and start understanding it.

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Desiring anything is bad. Desiring to end all desire is good.

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Well how can anyone argue with that airtight reasoning.

eastbay

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That's the point. If you think about that for long enough you just quit and start understanding it.

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Ohmmmmm.... (silly)

eastbay

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Desiring anything is bad. Desiring to end all desire is good.

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Well how can anyone argue with that airtight reasoning.

eastbay

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That's the point. If you think about that for long enough you just quit and start understanding it.

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Ohmmmmm.... (silly)

eastbay

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Meh. That's what I get I guess. Nh.