A co-blogger has started doing 10 random thoughts on tuesdays... So I figured why not?
1) People often consider intellectualization superior to emotionalism because when you intellectualize and you are wrong it doesn't hurt.
2) I think folks that constantly prove to themselves that life is crap are really just trying to gain some control over their lives as you can always seem to make your own life worse, but it seems much harder to make your life better.
3) The need to Control might be the biggest problem in Western thinking.
4) Control of anything other than yourself is an illusion.
5) Science has become a religion as equally flawed as any other religion.
6) Just because you do not understand a thing does not mean it does not work anyway.
7) What if the "laws" of physics were not same a billion years ago?
8) When you consider the "real" mass of atomic particles you quickly discover we, the world, and the universe are made of virtually nothing. In a very real sense, we are only manifested vibrations.
9) A thousand years ago most Europeans were serfs who worked the land, made just enough to survive and gave most of their earning to fuedal lords. Today most people of the Western Civilization work to pay for their house (ironically taking care of their yard), make just enough to pay their bills and give most of their earnings to a few very wealthy men. The idea of Progress is an illusion.
10) In a billion, billion years all trace of human exsistance will be eradicated from the Universe. There will be no historical record, no monuments, no grave markers, no Earth, no grand civilization and no human left to care. All the "lasting value" of your achievements and any legacy you leave will be lost. The only lasting value in life is today.
1.) HAH! You used big words and I understood. And smiled! YAY!!!!
ReplyDelete2.) Ain't it though? Making things better requires effort. Letting them go to crap... not quite so much.
3.) The illusion of Control, mayhaps?
4.) OH hey you beat me! (read, THEN comment. d'oh!)
5.) People have been sayin' that for a long time, no? I think it's less wonder and more trying to pigeonhole now... some people assume we've figured it all out and just hafta categorize. What if we haven't figured it out yet?
6.) heck yeah!
7.) Dinosaurs would be very confused if they were roaming the earth now.
8.) Vibrations. Heh. (Sorry, Beavis and Butthead moment. I apologize.)
9.) Yes, but it gives people the feeling of ... Control.
10.) Awww, see - now you're making assumptions. Unless you have a far reaching crystal ball? You're *probably* right, but what if you ain't?
1) :)
ReplyDelete2) It is easy to prove your control by making your life crappier. It is hard to prove you can make your life better because you sabotage yourself to prove yourself wrong.
5) You didn't say they had to be original thoughts...
8) I should have said "All of reality is just manifest vibrations" even Beavis and Butthead
10) No crystal ball... I have other theories... In reality I think every moment lasts forever and all moments at once--for lack of a better description. Everything comes together in the end in a multi-consciousness of all. When you consider real "eternity" there is no past, present or future. Infinite time is not necessarily continuous. But you can always have "now". "Now" is where true life is.
10 - true, Now is much more practical to concern yourself with in any event. But... again... the now requires more effort and self realization. People tend to shy away from that stuff.
ReplyDelete(random question - why does the comment section have an automatic spell check, but the blog box doesn't?)