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Words are not what they seem, life is not what it seems, nothing is what is seems.....sorry, but that is truth
We are being made nothing, by Judging one to be nothing......
I contend that life is exactly what it seems.
For me, life is about the exploration and discovery of the universe - of the bond held between friends and family - the trust it takes to allow another independent being to be close to you.
Nothing you say or do is going to make life, for me, anything but.
Nothing I say or do is going to make life, for you, anything but what you have already determined it to be.
That, my friend, is the truth of reality.
The only person who can determine what your life is about is you. You can take what others have to say into advice - but it is ultimately up to you to make the decision as to what your life means.
I contend that life is exactly what it seems.
For me, life is about the exploration and discovery of the universe - of the bond held between friends and family - the trust it takes to allow another independent being to be close to you.
Nothing you say or do is going to make life, for me, anything but.
Nothing I say or do is going to make life, for you, anything but what you have already determined it to be.
That, my friend, is the truth of reality.
The only person who can determine what your life is about is you. You can take what others have to say into advice - but it is ultimately up to you to make the decision as to what your life means.
I think there's a little more wisdom to this statement than you realize.
Humans have an innate ignorance within them. We are ignorant of our own irrelevance. This is why we will form opinions and hold on to them - we believe ourselves to be correct in that assessment - and any other conclusion to be wrong.
Hence, why I have begun using the phrase: "ignorant to the irrelevance of one's own genius" as a definition for being 'dumb' or 'stupid.' Denying the ignorance to the irrelevance of one's own genius is my definition of respect. It's when you lower your own measure of yourself long enough to honestly consider the perspective of another person.
You don't have to agree with that perspective - but simply accept the fact that it is a relevant perspective.
Because, as humans, we have a tendency to embrace the ideal. Yet, we all have a different - and even individual - interpretation of what the ideal is. Fixation upon the ideal and the complete exclusion of anything that isn't ideal is what will lead one down a path of self-isolation and loneliness.
That, my friend, is the path that leads to hell - when you believe yourself to be so superior as to reject all the goodness before you because of tiny faults you deem unacceptable.
Originally posted by TrueBrit
I can understand why you might go down this intellectual cul de sac. We, the human race, that is the flesh and blood, spirit and soul human race, are living in a world where over 90% of the population of our planet, are either living in desperate third world poverty, or slaving away trying desperately to scrabble a pension together before they are retired from thier work, and left to die in thier own waste matter ten or twenty years later, or beaten to death for thier meagre savings after a trip to the post office. The majority of people have harrowing lives, or harrowing moments within those lives.
It is then, no wonder that we try to justify our suffering with such fantasies as these. We seek that which is not there to be found, an explanation that fits the horror of our existance, without us having to admit that we are barely more than apes in essence, the most successful of us also being the most callous, evil, and treacherous. In a vain attempt not to have to accept those things in thier totality, we invent, we dream, and sometimes we hallucinate. All madness begins here, but unfortunately , it rarely ends there. We take these fantasies so far that they become our new truth, blurring the line between reality and the unreality we have invented to avoid the truth.
The truth is, that this thought process is an indicator of something I like to call the inhuman condition. It has been with us since civilisation came about, and unless greed and the enjoyment of anguish on the part of its inflictor cease to exist through self consumption, it will be with us still at the end of the universe.
Originally posted by Darkblade71
There is a glitch in the matrix!
Really though, life is sort of like that, kind of.
The mind is a hologram of sorts.
There is no one pulling the strings and hitting the switches though other than you.
TPTB are just as clueless as you and I.
They just like to think they know.
Just like you and I.
Originally posted by mdc5ff
Soon we will all be kings, this is my goal and its near fruition. One thing ill mention as to how I and we got there (bc its been one strange trip and I will say while I take credit for myactions, its almost like it was meant to be this way for all of us from the beginning). Anyway, this will come about bc in order to get out of hell you have to work your way up. While some would have u believe we ve descended into hell.. huhuh. We've coome from hell, we evolvee from chaos to order. I also will not be able to take credit bc I am a some total of my experiences and not all of these, well much of it, is info I've obtained from others. So, I thank the world. (It was actually this pleading for goodness, or rather kindness/pos attitude that got me here today. ) again, I thank the world and you don't know how fullfilled ill be in just a short time, I'm tearing up just thinking about it. Ats, keep your head up. I can finally say for the first time in my life I a. Don't want it to be the end of the world because b. I have solutions. U betcha bottom dollar, Pp, there will be more (to come, from me).