Literal Buddhism

Compassion sounds like sex...

By that, I mean, cum passion.
Which is weird, because: "From a Buddhist perspective, helping others to reduce their physical or mental suffering is very good, but the ultimate goal is to extinguish all suffering by stopping the process of rebirth and the suffering that automatically comes with living (enlightenment)."

I say this is weird, because sex leads to a literal re-birth. In two respects, the mother's genes are passed on to the next generation, which could be considered a rebirth of sorts, especially if there are two children. The other respect is the Tibetan sense of a rebirth of a historical soul or whatever into it's next life, if you believe in this (which I don't; I could, but I'm stubborn, I just don't). Compassion stops rebirth, but cum passion starts it. hmm.

Also, the word compassion could be more strangely split into compass / ion. Ions act on a magnetic compass, so I suspect there is something to this, as well. I'll leave that for you to ponder (I'm stumped, frankly). All I can think are ions are negative, which term has a dual meaning (just like meaning means mean-ing, which can be signify, average, or unkind).

Also, what inspired me to write this post was, "the ultimate goal is to extinguish all suffering by stopping the process of rebirth and the suffering that automatically comes with living (enlightenment)" made me think of the contradistinction between dark and light, extinguishing (like what you do with a snuffer to a candle) and enlightenment (like lighting a candle).

There's definitely some linguistic weirdness going on. Paradoxes, in fact. Compassion could be interpreted as the opposite of cum passion, and enlightenment is defined as extinguishing.

Furthermore, birth is a process of coming into the light - so rebirth IS enlightenment.

Is the Buddhist philosophy defining up as down?
To be fair, they do say that compassion means with passion, with feeling.
Also, it sounds like you're supposed to suicide and not have children (!)
Why not just stop being so ponderous and meditative and start having fun?

Something to meditate on, I guess. (Yes, I ate my med)