Ukiyo · 26-30
For me the only significant constant is our observation, actually proven through scientific research stating local reality being not "real" (having a persistent stasis) last year.
Often I do wonder how random randomness is, for one can deduct absolution of Knowledge yet not the persistence of one's reasoning towards that what is known because of the continuation of change. That thought came up as I was reading your post.
And it made me wonder why people care about a situation if it is going to change anyways, no matter where one looks, our situations are understood selectively, and I think the fast phase of technology and media these days often not align with this selection through more slower transmission.
Having written that background bit out, I think people care only as mush as they can comprehend, and the world wars often burn my Tongue to the point I have to either Spoon it up or let my Kettle cool. Saying with it that the happenings of war are outside my experience yet not outside the effects I do experience as result of it being carried over through history and other interconnected means. Sometimes I feel people loosing this bonding because of continuous exposure to dogma and abstract overarching thought flows, but that is all my personal opinion of course!
Usually I try to apply it to new creatives of mine, it makes me position myself fairly distant-like yet also as part of its flow. Kinda how I deal with these happenings, knowing I may alienate people with writing it out like that, but for me personally speaking it has always worked out well.
Often I do wonder how random randomness is, for one can deduct absolution of Knowledge yet not the persistence of one's reasoning towards that what is known because of the continuation of change. That thought came up as I was reading your post.
And it made me wonder why people care about a situation if it is going to change anyways, no matter where one looks, our situations are understood selectively, and I think the fast phase of technology and media these days often not align with this selection through more slower transmission.
Having written that background bit out, I think people care only as mush as they can comprehend, and the world wars often burn my Tongue to the point I have to either Spoon it up or let my Kettle cool. Saying with it that the happenings of war are outside my experience yet not outside the effects I do experience as result of it being carried over through history and other interconnected means. Sometimes I feel people loosing this bonding because of continuous exposure to dogma and abstract overarching thought flows, but that is all my personal opinion of course!
Usually I try to apply it to new creatives of mine, it makes me position myself fairly distant-like yet also as part of its flow. Kinda how I deal with these happenings, knowing I may alienate people with writing it out like that, but for me personally speaking it has always worked out well.
Mamapolo2016 · F
At some point I decided there is no knowing the meaning or the trajectory.
If I can't understand mathematics after 9th grade, I'm not going to understand how we got here or where we're going.
I too remain convinced of the significance of life.
In the Nagasaki lesson, clearly there are the human actor(s) who settled on decisions.
We call it luck or blessing or good fortune.
We're back to why again, the unanswerable question for me, because I don't have the proper foundation of knowledge. Perhaps no human does.
If I can't understand mathematics after 9th grade, I'm not going to understand how we got here or where we're going.
I too remain convinced of the significance of life.
In the Nagasaki lesson, clearly there are the human actor(s) who settled on decisions.
We call it luck or blessing or good fortune.
We're back to why again, the unanswerable question for me, because I don't have the proper foundation of knowledge. Perhaps no human does.
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@Mamapolo2016 I remember way back when some lady on TV (I can't remember exactly who or even the full context) said that when she saw the suffering of children, in famines and wars, preferred to think that there was no "higher" purpose or meaning involved. At the time I was into Theodicy reading a few thick books (!) and I saw her attitude as a cop out. To me, then, I saw such a lack of meaning as a total denial of significance, almost an acceptance of nihilism. Maybe she meant it as such, but now I begin to see something quite profound in our seeing no "meaning", no conclusion, no "belief" with regard to anything, any "happening".
For me it gets back to the "silence of the Buddha" in the face of all metaphysical questions, this simply because any answer at all (positive or negative) was not conducive to the living of the "holy life" (the path to the end of suffering)
I think you are right when you surmise that no human being has the foundation of knowledge to answer the questions posed here - but I'm beginning to see just why this must be so if we wish our mind/hearts to live truly. "Answers"/"beliefs" only corrupt, divide, bring conflict and discord. Beliefs cling. Faith, lets go and allows our mind/hearts to respond to Reality as it unfolds in each moment.
In many ways I think we simply need the heart of a child.
For me it gets back to the "silence of the Buddha" in the face of all metaphysical questions, this simply because any answer at all (positive or negative) was not conducive to the living of the "holy life" (the path to the end of suffering)
I think you are right when you surmise that no human being has the foundation of knowledge to answer the questions posed here - but I'm beginning to see just why this must be so if we wish our mind/hearts to live truly. "Answers"/"beliefs" only corrupt, divide, bring conflict and discord. Beliefs cling. Faith, lets go and allows our mind/hearts to respond to Reality as it unfolds in each moment.
In many ways I think we simply need the heart of a child.
interesting fact
but it doesn't prove anything
the event that occurred could have been predetermined long before the decision to move the target
or there could have been no predetermination
it is unprovable
but it doesn't prove anything
the event that occurred could have been predetermined long before the decision to move the target
or there could have been no predetermination
it is unprovable
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@fakable I'm not trying to prove anything. That is really the main point.
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then these questions are meaningless
Yet for other reasons, I remain convinced that Reality has significance. But what of "karma"? What of the "love" of God?
then these questions are meaningless
sree251 · 41-45, M
Your Reality has significance. My Reality has no significance. I am not implying callousness on my part for human suffering. Why is the incineration of thousands of "souls" hard to bear while wildfires sweeping across the land burning grass and trees evoke no concern?
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@sree251 Hi, it is the sheer randomness of exactly who died and who didn't that I find shocking - although "shocking" does not really capture it.
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@sree251 Yes, I certainly prefer "mystery" rather than conclusions.
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I'll just throw in a quote.....
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth … What mind worthy of the name, beginning with Homer, ever reached a conclusion? Let’s accept the picture. That’s how things are. So be it.....… (Gustave Flaubert)
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth … What mind worthy of the name, beginning with Homer, ever reached a conclusion? Let’s accept the picture. That’s how things are. So be it.....… (Gustave Flaubert)