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Originally posted by jonnywhite
reply to post by Truth07
One way to eliminate prejudice is to become nothing. Translation: Die. You're right.edit on 5-8-2012 by jonnywhite because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by arpgme
All you have to do is follow these questions and you'll lead to a logical conclusion...
1) The quality of existence is to exist, correct?
2) You exist, correct?
3) That which exists is worthy of existance for if it were not, it wouldn't be able to exist, correct?
4) If you exist, then logically, you are worthy of existence?
5) When there is no stimulation (happy or sad moments), you are calm, correct?
6) Therefore, naturally, you're dominant nature is calm/peaceful, correct?
7) The quality of life, is to live, correct?
8) Therefore, from these logical deductions, we can conclude that one should live in a way for the natural calm/peaceful state of being, and that each personality is worthy of existence regardless of "feelings" until they no longer exist, correct?
9) We can also conclude that, if word, thought, or action arise from anger, hatred, love, or desire of such emotions, they do not arise from true nature, but from emotion or desire, and only that which arises from the calmness is actually representative of one's true dominant nature, correct?
So, in normal speech, if you exist, you are worthy of existence, emotion arises as a response to situations (events, persons, or thoughts) and the true dominant nature is calmness which is the feeling of non-stimulation, therefore, only when one thinks, feels, or act from the state of calmness, is one actually taking actions representative of one's true dominant nature...
edit on 5-8-2012 by arpgme because: added
Originally posted by jonnywhite
reply to post by arpgme
We can't live life without bias or social constructs.
Originally posted by jonnywhite
There's just one thing in this universe: Change. Everything else is illusion.[
Originally posted by gosseyn
reply to post by arpgme
If I may say, you do the mistake of thinking that you can define "something" outside of its environment. Sure, you can do it with language, but in reality the "something" and the environment are two inseparable entities, they are the same process. Any biological organism has been shaped by all the pressures that the environment has produced. Thinking that there is a "natural" state of being is a mistake, because there is always an environment.
1) The quality of existence is to exist, correct?
2) You exist, correct?
3) That which exists is worthy of existance for if it were not, it wouldn't be able to exist, correct?
4) If you exist, then logically, you are worthy of existence?
5) When there is no stimulation (happy or sad moments), you are calm, correct?
6) Therefore, naturally, you're dominant nature is calm/peaceful, correct?
7) The quality of life, is to live, correct?
8) Therefore, from these logical deductions, we can conclude that one should live in a way for the natural calm/peaceful state of being, and that each personality is worthy of existence regardless of "feelings" until they no longer exist, correct?
9) We can also conclude that, if word, thought, or action arise from anger, hatred, love, or desire of such emotions, they do not arise from true nature, but from emotion or desire, and only that which arises from the calmness is actually representative of one's true dominant nature, correct?
Originally posted by arpgme
7) The quality of life, is to live, correct?
8) we can conclude that one should live in a way for the natural calm/peaceful state of being,
9) We can also conclude that, if word, thought, or action arise from anger, hatred, love, or desire of such emotions, they do not arise from true nature,
Originally posted by halfoldman
The natural sate is one of variance - happiness, sadness, anger - nobody is the same all the time.
Why should that be good?
Many people would say if you're always happy in a group then you've joined a cult, because always being perky and Pollyanna-like was certainly an instantly recognizable feature of many 1970s cults.
Nobody can be always loving, stress-free and happy.
That's not how our minds work, and whoever promises that is suspect and should be avoided at all costs.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
reply to post by jiggerj
...The intellectual human is, typically, calm and reserved. This is the cool, rational, reasoning being. The animal human can provide lots of noise which corrupts the "signal" of the intellectual human. This is our base desires, our emotions, our non rational behaviors and actions...
...I think each of us has our various mix of the duality of human being. I guess what you have to ask is, are you this duality? Or are you one or the other? What is human, our body or our personality? And how much of our personality is impacted by the animal human?