Fuck this planet

As a child, I was given the highest dosage of Amphetamines any child could legally take, without choice or my consent.

Did the Buddha take Amphetamines as a child?

As a child, I was taken to a Baptist church. There, I was taught of Heaven & Hell and my inevitable sin.

Did the Buddha's parents force him to a Baptist church every Sunday to learn about his sin?

At age thirteen, my parents still had me believing in Santa Clause, and home-schooled me all the way until my college years.

Was the Buddha taught Santa Clause and other myths? Was Buddha stuck inside an urban household, until hitting a 'legal' age in order to leave?

At age sixteen, I thought I had went insane after repenting to God, experiencing an existential crisis, and was put in a straight jacket.

Has the Buddha ever been put in a straight jacket at age sixteen?

Don't show me empathy, I don't want it. Today, I am teaching you something about reality. That name, Buddha, can be replaced with Jesus, Gandhi, Allah, or any other religious figure you've known your whole life. Anyone who believes in true freedom, especially in the U.S.A, is wrong. A child's psyche is vulnerable, and yet parent's are allowed to force teach religion and chemically engineer their children at almost infantile stages, like I was. And sometimes, the reason parents do this, is because they've had it done to them. My world, This U.S.A, runs off a system, a cycle, to keep their people there, consuming more, and I don't care if you disagree, I see it happen everyday. You don't think TV is a big deal? What if I told you I could sing you ten different jingles from car commercials that I never consented to be in my head. Would that matter to you? What do you think the news is doing? It's keeping the violence alive by covering the stories, calling them BREAKING NEWS with a thrill. You think it's so easy to escape the news? Everywhere I go, there is some reporter, in the corner of a restaurant, or any building, telling me about the latest cop killings. Once I hear and see that, I then have that image in my brain, and almost subconsciously play out the scenarios of how it might've happened. But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is being surrounded by a bunch of dull minded maniacs who have no problem camping out for a Black Friday sale, but think I'm crazy when I mention that money is not actually real. I am surrounded by people who are reproducing and leaving their children in worse conditions than I ever was. And you know what the really shitty part is? These children live, because God's blessed nation has enough McDonald's for the entirety of the population funded through the wondrous murders of thousands. If these children are lucky, they start to wake up and realize their parents fucked up -- not them. But if not, that's another child for the cop to shoot -- another murder for the TV screen, and onto infinity, or they'll make the same mistake their parents did. You want to know why this place is fucked up? We have nothing real to do. I'd rather be in Indonesia working on a farm. At least I could move my muscles and forget about my problems momentarily. I would have something to care for, too. Here, if your parents don't buy you an Xbox, that's considered the problem. Even the homeless have several options here. I worked in a shelter for years, I would know. But anyone who thinks grabbing a plane to another country is going to automatically fix what I've seen is foolish. And to be real I would never leave my family, because I am the only person who is conscious in their fucking lives. I don't care if that sounds conceited. Brainwash is real. If you don't believe it, you're an idiot. The mind picks up patterns and dwells on them, especially when those patterns are reinforced as children by our peers. I write to the Buddhist, because you guys think, and often don't judge. if I write to the Christians, well we already know how that goes... I just ask you, please, to really open your eyes. IF you teach awakening in some sense -- then look directly at the faces of children in America, realize they're blind, and likely have an iPhone.

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