\n So, here I am. I take a step back and pull up a chair and begin to watch my own life. No this not really a story, but rather a Philosophy of life. in order to completly under stand something, one must remove him or herself from the situation and become the audience. I have become the critic of my own life and here is what I observed.
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\n\n The world is a wonderful place. And terrible one too. because one cannot have good times without bad ones, can't have black without white, or yin without yang. so this brings me to my first question, what happens if you were to get rid of the antithesis of something? well "for every action, there is an equaly opposite reaction". to answer my question, If you eliminate one, you kill the other. yin cannot exist without yang. you get rid of black, and white goes along with it. then all you have is grey.
\n\n The universe, for example, is not an all you can eat Buffet. you have to pay to eat. you cannot receive without giving, to break it down. something bad always happens if you do. look at the 1920's, huge economic boom in America, but there was no recessions, only growth. so it would seem great, but there is always a price to pay. come the 1930's and you have Americas worst depression. The Bigger something is, the harder it hits when it comes down.
\n\n A person cannot have good times without bad ones. Happy without sad. because if you take away the negative experience, and then the positive one wont seem all that positive, but rather dull, unordinary, and emotionless. Two opposites are always constantly building off eachother. they need eachother and thrive off of the difference. They help eachother out. So negative really is not that negative, just a 'necessary evil' if you will.
\n\n People live in waves. The waves go up and the waves go down, in perfect symmetry. The 'up' mirrors the'down'. you put a dent in one side, and it will appear on the other. for example, in world war two, America droped "Little Boy" and"Fat Man" on Hiroshima and nagasaki. sure it ended the war, but very quickly, and shrewdly. many years later, it is an act that is looked down upon. Most of the time, the ends justify the means. If we didnt drop the bombs, then the war would play out and we would have probably gone through more hardship to "honorably" defeat the Japanese. This would give the U.S. an excellent track record for the years to come. theres alway a trade off.
\n\n "It is always darkest before dawn". Things will always be the best they can be before falling apart and Vice versa. Things are always going great before the shit hits the fan, then its a flippin disaster (its all fun and games till someone gets hurt) but after that, it can only get better. Universe runs off of simple to very complex mathimatical equations. These equations run our lives in very elaborate and subtle ways. very much like a chain reaction, or cause and effect deal. you put X in at the front of the chain, and you get Y. but if you switch X with A, then that changes the end of the chain to Z. one life example for this is if you go to college or not. if you do, chances are you will make much ore money then if you dont. These equations change our destiny with each second and action that passes by. your destiny is not set in stone, but changes all the way up till death.
\n\n "everything happens for a reason" and every reason happens because of everything. good things happen because you manifest "ask and you shall recieve" obsess about what you want. do everything in your will to get to or have something and put simply, you will.
\n\n The closest thing to perfection in this universe is imperfection. imperfection guides us, teaches us, and lets us know that we are only human. but most importantly, Imperfection lets us aspire deeply into the vast heavens with unquestionable science and philosophy. Imperfection is the closest thing I have ever seen in this universe so close to perfection. Imperfection is beautiful.
\n\n sometimes one may feel like curling back up in the womb of their mother. fall asleep. never to wake up again, only dreaming the sweet pure dreams of a virgin to the world. untouched by hate nor hope alike... but this is not the life I want, I want to get out there, be adventurous. find danger and knowlege before they find me. simply live.
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\n\n So I sit there, watching my own life pass me by. seeing things from other peoples views. seeing my self in third person. I see how marvoulous the World and Universe can be. How hate and love are very much alike. How there is never a dull moment in our world. How perfect our Imperfect world is... I stand up and decide to jump in...
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- I think George Kushi put it best when he wrote; "What has a large front-- has a large back." The longer you spend at an addiction the harder (or longer) it takes to get over it when you quit. And the same with depression.
- And anger. I'd like to read what you have to say about that, that might be very interesting.
- Your essay was simple clear, and well though-out. Please, more, Sir.
- Food for thought: the distinction between data and information, the difference between facts and knowledge-- if I look up "Strawberry" in the dictionary, how prepared am I to speak with authority on strawberries? This is the difference between learning and wisdom. You seem to have skipped the time-waste parts and gone from harvesting the data, to having the data and transforming it into experiential knowledge. You in fact have, here, some wisdom. Most folks don't get this far until they're 23 or so.
- Everything happens. I wouldn't say everything has a "Reason" because somethings are chaotic or random or both. I WOULD say that everything has a cause, but reason - meh, when folks hear reason, they think intent, and that's not true in many cases. Random stuff upsets people because we strive so hard to bring order to our lives. May 5, July 4, someone is shooting into the air to celebrate, and a slug falls on a kid. The parents want to know their kid wasn't injured for no reason, and yet, the lead could have fallen anywhere. Guy is 43, had massive heart attack- dies, leaves wife, and 2 kids under the age of 12. The family wants to know "why?" Well, there may be a why, medically, but reasonably? No, no reason. Or if, yes, then possibly not comprehensible by the human mind. Sometimes it is not "reasonable" but happens anyway. But we only want reasons we can fathom.
(fun expression, fathom: comes from measuring the depth of the sea, or ocean. If your string is long enough you can sound the bottom,- but if your string won't reach the bottom, you cannot plumb its depths, it is unfathomable- unknowable, because our fathom measuring string is not long enough. The lead - because lead is dense, the lead is the weight at the end of the string- plumb is Latin for lead, where we get our word plumber. The guy who installs pipes,-- in Rome they were made of lead. So we use the lead weight to plumb the depths- to know how deep.)
- I know I'm getting out of my depth here, but I wanted to know that I enjoyed reading your piece, I really spent some time with it. At first I pictured, in my mind, sine waves but then I realized later- that was my inference not your implication. When I switched to an ocean analogy- what you said worked much better- hence my response about the waves.
- (Hint- anger is where we go, when we are SO hurt that we do not wish to FEEL the pain of the hurt. Anger blocks feelings, displaces them, as does rage. Anger is the counterfeit of feeling. And it's VERY dramatic)
people will seek knowlege more than any other materialistic or spiritual substance. and people will simply believe what makes the most sense. but a select few refuse the "truth" and seek to disprove the common belief. (geeze I could write another paper on this lol)
I liked your analogy about this subject and the ocean. thank you for the anger hints, I've been thinking more and more about it and its starting to be a regular thought in my head, you will probably see a story about it on this site in a short while. just remember, I am not striving to be a philosopher, Im studying to be an artist, but Secular and humanistic thinking are some of my favorite side hobbies.
- Run people, run, save yourselves, he's an artist! Run.
* So, he's an artist, so what?
- Run you idiot! He's got a pencil!!!
* OMG, an Artist's got a pencil? Run! Run for your lives - he's going to do "ART"! Run away!
(or something like that, yes?)
im not saying that im devoid of philosophy, its just a side thing I like to do.
- If you want I can write Mom a note. I wouldn't recommend Deviant Art, or VCL site to show her, but inkbunny has a clean setting, as does SoFurry.
the Fur! :)