Why Do Jainism Bother Me

There are many things that bother me and that I don’t agree with in Jainism. The first thing I don’t agree with is the idea we have always been here. If they don’t believe in a beginning, then how can they believe in an end? If you believe in one extreme, don’t you kind of have to believe in the opposite extreme? Another thing that bothers me is the fact that Jains literally cannot do anything or feel anything without having negative effects. What’s the point of us being here if doing and feeling good are not okay? The only thing we can do without having bad karma is sit around naked, not feel or think anything, and starve ourselves to death. At the same time, I guess that is what almost every religion tries to define, why we are here. Jainism

We aren’t just hear to do nothing and rot away. I have always been taught to do good whenever I could. If I did this, I would reach heaven. In heaven I would be extremely happy. While in Jainism happiness is bad because it’s ajiva. I can never put my head around the idea that doing good is bad. I believe that thinking things is good and grows our world. Jainism basically doesn’t want you to think. I will never be able to think in this way because I was taught good and bad things are good and

The idea that women cannot achieve Moksha is ridiculous. I’m a female, and the last I knew I didn’t have living beings in my chest and armpits. I also didn’t know that the reason why I had to wear clothes was because men can’t control themselves. I don’t classify myself as a feminist either, but when someone says women are valued less than men, I get a little upset. Without women men wouldn’t be here. We are equal as one. The creator of Jainism didn’t really believe in this either. If all Jivas are supposed to eventually reach Moksha, then how is the last woman going to achieve Moksha? She has to be there to create the last men, but she won’t be able to be reborn as a man because there isn’t a woman. Where is it in the religion that women are there because of men? It isn’t there because they don’t what to recognize women. Jainism really irritates me because women are not here just for show. Jains need to realize the value of women in their