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From the story ‘The Maggies’ in ‘American Splendor’ by Harvey Pekar –<\/em><\/p>\n Harvey:<\/strong> (Detecting untruthfulness) <\/em>When you talk about dishonest men, do you have to be dishonest? That’s the problem with absolute generalisations, sweeping statements… It it was, does it make him an honest man? That was a trick question, that assumes all men have to be either honest or dishonest! There is only a trio of generalisations about the universe that are timelessly true 1. Anicca: Physical and mental phenomena are in constant change Realise the above fully and one attains Nirvana, From the story ‘The Maggies’ in ‘American Splendor’ by Harvey Pekar – Harvey: (Detecting untruthfulness) When you talk about dishonest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[48,47,49,146,258,107],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-anatta","tag-anicca","tag-dukkha","tag-paradox","tag-true-happiness","tag-truth","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nInterviewee:<\/strong> (Shrugging) Why not? Even Socrates was dishonest…
\nHarvey:<\/strong> (Confronting) Socrates?? What does he have to do with it?
\nInterviewee:<\/strong> (As-a-matter-of-factly) Socrates said all men are dishonest, so even he was dishonest!
\nHarvey: <\/strong>(Frowning and thinking)…<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSo was Socrates’ statement that all men are dishonest true?<\/p>\n
\nIt it does, does that make him dishonest that all men are dishonest?
\nIt it does, is he really honest or dishonest?
\nSo… are all men really honest or dishonest?<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSome (wo)men are (dis)honest at times,
\nwhile some are (dis)honest most of the time,
\nwhile some are (dis)honest all of the time.
\n(Actually, the last seems like an impossible feat.)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n(The Three Universal Characteristics; the Three Marks of Existence) –<\/p>\n
\n2. Dukkha: Dissatisfactions arise when that of Anicca is clung to as non-Anicca, when that of Anatta is seen as non-Anatta.
\n3. Anatta: There is no substantial self-nature in phenomena subject to Anicca and Dukkha<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthat is non-Anicca (lasting) liberation from Dukkha; True Happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"