This doesn’t seem like the right forum for me, so I’m not going to write an intro. By way of apology for not following the forum rules, here’s an explanation of my user name, which you might find interesting:
My user name is Ananda Arahant.
Ananda was a disciple of the Buddha. The word “Ananda” means joy, and Ananda was cheerful and well-liked. He also had an incredible memory, could make difficult ideas interesting and accessible, and was an instinctive rule-follower. He reminds me of myself in those prosaic ways.
Twenty years after joining the Sangha (Order of monks), Ananda had still not achieved enlightenment, unlike most of his fellow senior monks. At that time, the Buddha needed a new personal attendant, and asked for volunteers. All the senior monks, except Ananda, raised their hands. The Buddha immediately realized that Ananda still lacked confidence because he was still blue-pilled. The Buddha made Ananda his personal attendant, so that he could personally red-pill him. He didn’t tell anyone this, of course.
But the Buddha did not succeed in his life time. Instead, Ananda turned out to be instrumental in setting up an order of nuns, by playing on the Buddha’s compassion and gratitude.
(As a result of the Nuns’ Order, the Buddha predicted that Buddhism would only last 500 years, not 1,000 as it might have otherwise. He was probably right; Buddhism suffered a major schism about 500 years after the Buddha died, and degenerated into the ritualized “Buddhisms” that are practiced today.)
The monk Ananda was very popular with women, who liked his cheerful and entertaining manner. But his blue-pilled mind always knew something was amiss with his worldview. Fortunately, just before the Buddha died, Ananda got one final opportunity to ask the Buddha the most important question on his mind.
From http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/hecker/wheel273.html#section-5:
“Shortly before the Buddha died, Ananda asked him a question concerning women: ‘How shall we relate to women, Master?’ — ‘Do not look at them.’ — ‘But if one sees one, Master?’ — ‘Do not address her.’ — ‘But if one talks to us?’ — ‘Keep mindfulness and self-control.’ (DN 16).
This question was posed by Ananda in view of the imminent death of the Buddha, just before the preparations for the funeral. This problem must therefore have been an important one for him. For himself he did not need an admonition to practice self-control; sensual desire had been overcome by him for 25 years. But during the years he had seen how the problem of the relationship between the sexes again and again stirred the emotions.
The question may have been asked by him for this reason, but also on account of the warning of the Buddha that the Order was endangered through the foundation of the Nun’s Order and its lifespan shortened. He wanted to give his contemporaries and his successors a last word of the Buddha on this topic.”
Look closely, and you’ll see that the Buddha used his dying words to red-pill Ananda. He did it in his favorite way, by prescribing a path to enlightenment. In Ananda’s case, the Buddha told him to avoid all contact with women. Ananda followed the Buddha’s advice, and eventually achieved enlightenment, or became an “Arahant.”
Hence my user name: Ananda Arahant, a reminder of a hopelessly blue-pilled man who was finally red-pilled by the Buddha himself on his death bed, with advice all men could use today. Those MGTOWs knew their s~~~, 2,500 years ago.
Ananda Arahant also literally means “Joyful destroyer of the enemy.” Heh.
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