Everyone thinks differently, and has different preferences. Everyone has a independent brain of chosen/accepted development. Having a lot in common with someone is still not sharing the same mind, rather fractions of minds in unison. When we arrive at a conclusion the same way, even more when it's the same conclusion we arrive at, we develop mutual understanding. Our conscious potential becomes greater through sharing, and by discovering it through partnership. Essentially working together towards a common goal.
Raw organization is not enough to triumph over adversity. Getting a bunch of decent things together and putting them in the right place is what robots do, and what separates life from artificial life as we know it. In other words people treating one another with a "straight fact" attitude, like life is a one shoe fits all scenario, adds a distasteful approach to trying to understand one another. It's not a sufficient way to go about decently living life among others.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
Life after death is an oxymoron
The title sums it up. If death is under consideration for an individual self, then 'life after' is redundant. Other people will live on, sure. But after one dies, there is no life after death. There is only death. The experience is non-living. Sometimes people die then come back to life, occasionally. And during these occurrences, sometimes they can recall the experience from conscious memory. There is no way to literally prove their subjective experience really happened, however, death can be measured/quantified and proven.
While people are limited with our senses, we make up for it with expansive imagination. Through the imagination we can experience things our senses wouldn't really allow. We can defy gravity, entropy, change, stasis, objective logic in general. Immortality is a conceptual antibody the imagination produced because of death. When we let our imagination solve the challenge of thriving, our lives undergo experience which is called dream.
A dream come true - when the imagination produces a reality for subsequent senses. We have the ability to take what's in our imagination, and put it into the physical/objective world. My favorite example is the airplane, and how far we've come with trying out flight (check out jetman dubai if you want to see some truly awesome flying). But it can be something less physical as well, such as a persons behavior. The airplane is lovely, but it wouldn't have happened were it not for the specific behavior used to produce the idea and reality of it. The creation process of the airplane began within the imagination of its creators.
When I hear religious people talk about god as the creator, I feel like they are just talking about themselves in third person. God is an idea in the imagination, and doesn't necessarily exist in objectivity beyond that. But the nice thing about the imagination, it can figure out *how* to objectify ideas, *to* be measured. If god cannot be measured, then god can be redefined. When the definition is on the table for reconstruction, anything is possible; it's on!
Creation of objective properties, substance, and behavior are all the imagination needs to get the ball rolling. After that it's a matter of moving things around into the proper place. I think of imagination as what furthers convenient adjustment for life, and what cements the possibility to thrive into existence. Perhaps the imagination then is not limited to intelligent "life", in the sense of organisms. Imagination itself could be a objective concept; force of nature. Life and creation go hand in hand it seems, but BOTH are merely subjected to perspective.
Life as we KNOW IT may not be life *completely*. Think about fire and flames for a moment. Fire has many of the same properties as anything living (that's why we say fire dies). Fire is not an organism, but it is not inanimate, yet has a lifespan. Such is the principle for this theory: Life and the Imagination are 2 things which can exist in objective reality, not organically associated with perspective or perception, and are in fact forces of nature orchestrated by the universe at large - through micro and macro elements of behavior. Quantum and galactic mechanics go largely over and under our heads, which means we are lucky enough to be somewhere in the middle. We have plenty of room to stretch and breathe our personal imagination, so why not try it!
While people are limited with our senses, we make up for it with expansive imagination. Through the imagination we can experience things our senses wouldn't really allow. We can defy gravity, entropy, change, stasis, objective logic in general. Immortality is a conceptual antibody the imagination produced because of death. When we let our imagination solve the challenge of thriving, our lives undergo experience which is called dream.
A dream come true - when the imagination produces a reality for subsequent senses. We have the ability to take what's in our imagination, and put it into the physical/objective world. My favorite example is the airplane, and how far we've come with trying out flight (check out jetman dubai if you want to see some truly awesome flying). But it can be something less physical as well, such as a persons behavior. The airplane is lovely, but it wouldn't have happened were it not for the specific behavior used to produce the idea and reality of it. The creation process of the airplane began within the imagination of its creators.
When I hear religious people talk about god as the creator, I feel like they are just talking about themselves in third person. God is an idea in the imagination, and doesn't necessarily exist in objectivity beyond that. But the nice thing about the imagination, it can figure out *how* to objectify ideas, *to* be measured. If god cannot be measured, then god can be redefined. When the definition is on the table for reconstruction, anything is possible; it's on!
Creation of objective properties, substance, and behavior are all the imagination needs to get the ball rolling. After that it's a matter of moving things around into the proper place. I think of imagination as what furthers convenient adjustment for life, and what cements the possibility to thrive into existence. Perhaps the imagination then is not limited to intelligent "life", in the sense of organisms. Imagination itself could be a objective concept; force of nature. Life and creation go hand in hand it seems, but BOTH are merely subjected to perspective.
Life as we KNOW IT may not be life *completely*. Think about fire and flames for a moment. Fire has many of the same properties as anything living (that's why we say fire dies). Fire is not an organism, but it is not inanimate, yet has a lifespan. Such is the principle for this theory: Life and the Imagination are 2 things which can exist in objective reality, not organically associated with perspective or perception, and are in fact forces of nature orchestrated by the universe at large - through micro and macro elements of behavior. Quantum and galactic mechanics go largely over and under our heads, which means we are lucky enough to be somewhere in the middle. We have plenty of room to stretch and breathe our personal imagination, so why not try it!
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
A decent living
If it's naive to think we can all get along, then it is equally naive to think we can not. It takes the same amount of effort either way. What we feel and think about one another is all happening within ourselves. Well that's obvious! So then the path to responsibility is illuminated: we act on what is within ourselves, to see it externalized. We share the moment and history with each other by choice. You may not have chosen to cross paths with a stranger, but you chose to be where you are when it happened.
Self awareness entails acceptance of such a responsibility. Our actions and reactions are made by the individual; us and us alone. Once we integrate ourselves into the set, we can change the setting. By changing the setting, we alter the set. With self awareness we can discover anything that's possible to do. Once the discovery of what we *can* do is made, our path splits into possibilities.
Whichever paths we take is our personal choice.
Self awareness entails acceptance of such a responsibility. Our actions and reactions are made by the individual; us and us alone. Once we integrate ourselves into the set, we can change the setting. By changing the setting, we alter the set. With self awareness we can discover anything that's possible to do. Once the discovery of what we *can* do is made, our path splits into possibilities.
Whichever paths we take is our personal choice.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Behavior of behavior
If we don't control our behavior, our behavior will control us. When self restraint is not at all a factor, it's easy to let our actions get away from us. We don't think about repercussions or consequences; we usually just think in terms of satisfaction. It's a bad habit to get into, and can become quite a problem as history continues to build. Ones behavior forms itself into patterns if left uncontrolled. Sometimes these patterns are more positive and sometimes they are more negative.
Such is the case for a individuals behavior, however it reflects from a more internetted grand scale across societies. Each society is held together by the participating individuals, and therefore is a collective entity of their behavior. While viewing the overall status of a society, the particular contributing behavioral elements of the individual is often overlooked. I believe it is through introspection, and self reflection that we can begin to change what is greater than the individual.
Through understanding ourselves more intimately, we develop a higher sense for our objective place in nature (the world, or universe if you prefer). This in turn gives us a greater capacity for an even higher understanding. We learn about ourselves, to learn more about the world, which gives us more to learn about ourselves *with*. This is a positive feedback loop, and the result of having self control! We are responsible for our own behavior whether we like to admit it or not. By accepting responsibility, we can develop more naturally and gracefully.
Such is the case for a individuals behavior, however it reflects from a more internetted grand scale across societies. Each society is held together by the participating individuals, and therefore is a collective entity of their behavior. While viewing the overall status of a society, the particular contributing behavioral elements of the individual is often overlooked. I believe it is through introspection, and self reflection that we can begin to change what is greater than the individual.
Through understanding ourselves more intimately, we develop a higher sense for our objective place in nature (the world, or universe if you prefer). This in turn gives us a greater capacity for an even higher understanding. We learn about ourselves, to learn more about the world, which gives us more to learn about ourselves *with*. This is a positive feedback loop, and the result of having self control! We are responsible for our own behavior whether we like to admit it or not. By accepting responsibility, we can develop more naturally and gracefully.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Naturally
Our senses lead us through potential in the same way the wind blows a leaf around through the air. We discover things to be aware of, and at the same time we miss out on other things. We are specific and particular in what we experience. While we may be in one place experiencing something, we lose the oppertunity to be elsewhere in that moment. We choose our paths of action and potential like a tree chooses the direction it's branches will grow.
We start the process from the roots of an experience. Many factors curve the development of potential, and change the course of *how* it develops. Like a tree stretching it's limbs towards the sun, our decisions procure the direction of our experience. To what ends our potential comes to is like the leaves of a tree. The fruit then would be what we can extract and share from the experience.
Accepting oneself in bad potential is like planting a seed in bad soil. A tree doesn't need much care to see natural growth, and so we can get by with just a decent minimum too. However it's all the more impressive to see a tree grow healthy and strong when it is malnourished and has indecent foundations. If the roots are deep enough then the growth of the tree may yet still be salvaged.
We can learn a lot from literally anything if we have the mind to :)
We start the process from the roots of an experience. Many factors curve the development of potential, and change the course of *how* it develops. Like a tree stretching it's limbs towards the sun, our decisions procure the direction of our experience. To what ends our potential comes to is like the leaves of a tree. The fruit then would be what we can extract and share from the experience.
Accepting oneself in bad potential is like planting a seed in bad soil. A tree doesn't need much care to see natural growth, and so we can get by with just a decent minimum too. However it's all the more impressive to see a tree grow healthy and strong when it is malnourished and has indecent foundations. If the roots are deep enough then the growth of the tree may yet still be salvaged.
We can learn a lot from literally anything if we have the mind to :)
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Upgrade common sense to common understanding
Senses and emotions will completely rule our lives if we allow it to happen. Self awareness and self restraint are important for us to stay in control of our actions, rather than letting lower thinking take control. Lower thinking is how we find ourselves in undesirable situation. This is true for personal circumstances as well as grand scale situations, like that of a country. We "make due" with "the lesser of two evils", when the smart thing to do would be to find a completely different/better solution all together.
Convenience is a double edged sword; it leads to complacency, but greater contrasts the problems of a situation. When desire is fulfilled quickly it creates a subconscious expectation. When the expectation goes unmet, the reason 'why' quickly falls into understanding.
I see this pattern in politics and law enforcement a lot (too much). It seems to me that people have a problem with the self. We like to have other people solve our problems when they are over our head to deal with. But the fact that they are over our head is statement. By admitting awareness of something, we have just revealed our capacity to begin to understand it.
This means accepting responsibility for being able to understand something, or denying it - which is irresponsible. In this way politics and law enforcement are inherently flawed. We put our stock in others, knowing for our stock to get to those 'others' it has to go through a corrupt system. But we pretend and play along enough until it becomes inconvenient for ourselves. It's a bad joke that stopped being funny after the US founding fathers left their royally infested country to start the united states.
And even that was irresponsible. The united states is built on foundations of genocide. People complain about who is running for president, but what they're really complaining about is their own position of weakness. And it's 100% by choice. We don't get to choose our circumstances 100%, but we are completely and totally in control of how we act and react. I'm saying too many people choose to lower their heads and complain, instead of rise to the challenge of decency and actually do something themselves. Something which would give them nothing to complain about.
I'm not suggesting "change the world", I'm suggesting change the self!
Convenience is a double edged sword; it leads to complacency, but greater contrasts the problems of a situation. When desire is fulfilled quickly it creates a subconscious expectation. When the expectation goes unmet, the reason 'why' quickly falls into understanding.
I see this pattern in politics and law enforcement a lot (too much). It seems to me that people have a problem with the self. We like to have other people solve our problems when they are over our head to deal with. But the fact that they are over our head is statement. By admitting awareness of something, we have just revealed our capacity to begin to understand it.
This means accepting responsibility for being able to understand something, or denying it - which is irresponsible. In this way politics and law enforcement are inherently flawed. We put our stock in others, knowing for our stock to get to those 'others' it has to go through a corrupt system. But we pretend and play along enough until it becomes inconvenient for ourselves. It's a bad joke that stopped being funny after the US founding fathers left their royally infested country to start the united states.
And even that was irresponsible. The united states is built on foundations of genocide. People complain about who is running for president, but what they're really complaining about is their own position of weakness. And it's 100% by choice. We don't get to choose our circumstances 100%, but we are completely and totally in control of how we act and react. I'm saying too many people choose to lower their heads and complain, instead of rise to the challenge of decency and actually do something themselves. Something which would give them nothing to complain about.
I'm not suggesting "change the world", I'm suggesting change the self!
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Judge Truth
Spiritual toxicity is a byproduct of when a hostile mind contradicts a gentle heart. To avoid toxicity and relish in positive spiritual development, one must align their heart and mind. The tuning must be natural and not forced: the tune must come through accepting balance. Total honesty must cascade through oneself so spiritual toxicity may wash away. Think of lying as building a damn to prevent the flow of a river. Ones spiritual development flows like a river, and is altered with lies and dishonesty.
Changing the direction of the flow is not necessarily a bad thing. Curvature of rivers add something special to a more grand scale perspective, creating a winding shimmering image of water.
Prohibiting the flow is what makes the river disappear all together down the way. This pattern of behavior is kindred to ones spiritual development. Synchronicity can be applied to anything if one has the capacity for it. Capacity is just another aspect of ourselves which we consciously dictate.
Changing the direction of the flow is not necessarily a bad thing. Curvature of rivers add something special to a more grand scale perspective, creating a winding shimmering image of water.
Prohibiting the flow is what makes the river disappear all together down the way. This pattern of behavior is kindred to ones spiritual development. Synchronicity can be applied to anything if one has the capacity for it. Capacity is just another aspect of ourselves which we consciously dictate.
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