>>183277
i understand this quite well.
tbh there's a reason monasteries exist (no matter which religion, buddhist, christian), so people can just laze around doing things for ""god"". i mean it's not even a critic, they separate themselves from 'the world' deliberately.
but for us?
you and me are forced to do the 9-5 thing, we can't even exit to monasteries or the likes, don't we?
and because that's the situations we're in, we're actually, well, having quite FULL RIGHT to be as hedonistic or whatever 'unseemly thing' one thinks one needs, just to BALANCE OUT the whole "have to work and do society things in society" that our life forced on us.
PLEASURES to balance unanandonable PAINS.
yes, we don't have to be saints.
we are allowed to not be saints.
if we can't abandon the world that forces itself,
then we have the right to use the world anyhow we can.
even if we don't find "higher meaning" (try as we might) (probably not in the sucky place and time we're in)
so we just try and try what we can.
and you know what? some DO turn even more "religious" or "spiritual" meanwhile, it's all ok.
whatever one needs.
to cope. to go on.