History of Enlightenment

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Changed: 1,2c1,2

Life is Suffering



Or is it? Most denizens of the Mess would hardly agree with that.

Enlightenment



"Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own intelligence!" - Immanuel Kant

Changed: 4,6c4,9
:"Life is movement." -- Echo

Has strange achieved the traditional measure of enlightenment? If so, does it want to be enlightened? (Angst)
\En*light*en*ment\, n.
# Understanding and the spread of knowledge.
# Trancending the cycle of reincarnation, characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness, also known as Nirvana.
# An 18th century Terran movement which sought to establish reason as the foundation of all belief and conduct. (Empiricism, Deism, Sensualism, Ultranationalism.)


What is Enlightenment within Puzzlebox? What about the factional concepts of Enlightenment?

Changed: 8,9c11,15

Life is Bliss



Have the bubble dolls achieved enlightenment? (Egolessness, etc.)

Life is Suffering



* Or is it? Most denizens of the Mess would hardly agree with that.
:"Life is movement." -- Echo
*Has Strange achieved the traditional measure of enlightenment? If so, does it want to be enlightened? (Angst)
* Is suffering valuable within the post scarcity society because of its en-masse elimination, and thus the missing component of enlightenment to most residents?

Added: 10a17,18

Life is Bliss



* Have the bubble dolls achieved enlightenment? (Egolessness, etc.)

Added: 12a21
* Is bliss alone in life Enlightenment?

Changed: 14,21c23,35

Bliss is Suffering



Is it possible to tell the difference without a self for either to happen to?

Suffering is Bliss



Does it even matter?

Life is Life



Proceed.

Bliss is Suffering



* Is it possible to tell the difference without a self for either to happen to?
* If bliss is suffering, what does one attain to?
** Balance? Lack of sensation? (Probably resembles an absolute value graph.)

Suffering is Bliss



* Does it even matter?
* Is it then suffering at all?

Life is Life



* Proceed.
* Does philosophical debate change life?
** It can change the way one thinks about life, and the effect spreads from there.

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