Nah, you’ve got it the wrong way around. It’s harder to intimately know someone when you’re being distracted by their face and body. An online relationship, especially when texting, is being exposed directly to the words of a person’s soul. A physical relationship is always had behind a mask, one that can’t represent the person because they didn’t actually choose it. Nobody’s really human, but in physical space everyone looks human. That’s why physical space is the opposite of reality. “IRL” is the internet, not meatspace.
Buddha taught that when you perceive the world while thinking, you structure your experience of the world into an illusion. The only way to perceive objective reality is to perceive without thought. Which of course, means perceiving nothing at all. Rather similar to death when you think about it. Accordingly, the more of the world you are seeing, the less of reality you see. That’s why online relationships are realer. Physical bodies are an illusion that distorts relationships. Your attraction to your partner’s body can delude you into thinking a relationship is good, while your soul is starving because their personality is no good for you. And your lack of attraction can blind you to a very good relationship, which is especially obvious if your partner is trans and pre-transition. You could be a straight guy, your gf is a trans girl, and you’d be very happy in an online relationship with the real her, but the illusion of her male body ruins the relationship and makes your penis soft. It’s no good.
Nah, you’ve got it the wrong way around. It’s harder to intimately know someone when you’re being distracted by their face and body. An online relationship, especially when texting, is being exposed directly to the words of a person’s soul. A physical relationship is always had behind a mask, one that can’t represent the person because they didn’t actually choose it. Nobody’s really human, but in physical space everyone looks human. That’s why physical space is the opposite of reality. “IRL” is the internet, not meatspace.
That’s a weird take. Weird in the good way though, thought-provoking.
Buddha taught that when you perceive the world while thinking, you structure your experience of the world into an illusion. The only way to perceive objective reality is to perceive without thought. Which of course, means perceiving nothing at all. Rather similar to death when you think about it. Accordingly, the more of the world you are seeing, the less of reality you see. That’s why online relationships are realer. Physical bodies are an illusion that distorts relationships. Your attraction to your partner’s body can delude you into thinking a relationship is good, while your soul is starving because their personality is no good for you. And your lack of attraction can blind you to a very good relationship, which is especially obvious if your partner is trans and pre-transition. You could be a straight guy, your gf is a trans girl, and you’d be very happy in an online relationship with the real her, but the illusion of her male body ruins the relationship and makes your penis soft. It’s no good.
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