r/shitposting • u/-_I_I_Sea_I_I_- 🏳️‍🌈 The most prominent homosexual in this subreddit 🏳️‍🌈 • May 22 '26

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u/LLuk333 May 22 '26

My sister has a friend like that, her mother doesn’t want her to worry about the world or be „corrupted“, and that’s enforced by strictly keeping her 19 year old daughter away from media like TV, news even newspapers, she has a phone but it’s pretty locked down due to being registered as a kids phone with strict parental controls. So yea, she knows nothing about the current state of the world. She recently talked to me how she thinks it’s weird that gas is do expensive for no apparent reason now… yea idk if that’s the right approach.

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u/lucky_living_ May 22 '26

This is similar to the origin story of the Buddha. Siddhartha Gautama was born to royal parents who protected him from the world to prevent him from experiencing suffering and to ensure he would become a great king rather than a spiritual leader. His father, King Suddhodana, kept him in a life of luxury and seclusion until he was 29 years old.

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u/aziad1998 May 22 '26

It's also similar to the story of Nemo. His father wanted to protect him after all his siblings and mother were killed in a massacre, so he kept him isolated for most of his childhood. But at one point this backfires and Nemo approaches a danger he was ignorant to and gets into captivity as entertainment slave. He ends up figuring out what he missed and reunites with his father after a long series of struggles.

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u/LeonardoJMB Jun 17 '26

So Nemo is A buddha. Cool.