Nothing Has Meaning

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Category: The Meaning of Life

Apparently there are those unwilling or unable to ponder. Philosophy being what it is makes us humans not too prone to philosophizing. Philosophy is pondering. Meaningless pondering resulting in recognition of . . . . . . . . meaninglessness.

The concepts here are simple, and not provocative, and not original.

Perception is reality. Reality is perception. Truth, on the other hand, is not reality. When one confuses the two, one ends up missing the point, again and again and again.

If I use the word “reality” here to mean perception forgive me. Words have many meanings, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective (haha) so try to glean the context. I also use reality to mean “true existence” or “the nature of things” problem being of course that reality is filtered. Then dreams show up and throw a spanner in the works.

The point being, there is no point. This shouldn’t be hard to grasp but all too often is because people simply don’t want to acknowledge or observe their own insignificance.

The truth stands all by itself, usually alone, unobserved and unrecognized. Now the world (reality, space, consciousness, whatever) we live in is created by our perspective, values, mindset, intelligence, history, environment and, again, whatever influences us.

See the difference?

Yeah. Not too original.

The idea being, pun intended, to be present in all awareness. Sit still and listen, see, feel and suddenly the world is a universe of realities that surround our beings.

Here and now, we have nothing else.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Category: The Meaning of Life

I got to thinking about something Hazelrah said. This was in a comment regarding plans, and how life did turn out the way we had it planned, always. Hazel was not too hip with that one.

Hazel was on about realistic goals. This is self-defeating. No one would ever amount to squat, in his or her view, or any view, if they only allowed themselves to seek that which they thought was possible or realistic. Nothing wrong with just being alive either. That goal isn’t as easy to attain as it appears.

This Fourth of July 4, 2006 is a perfect day to talk about seeking what one desires, without limits, before figuring out how. (Perfect spot for a link to Off Every Day’s Figure Out How.)

The Declaration of Independence talked about in essence the right and duty to stand up for justice, stand up against tyranny regardless of the costs. Now if they had the mentality of “realistic” the United States of America would not exist. Those dudes were my kind of people on the whole.

So first and foremost we need to know what we want. We need to figure out exactly what, not some vague “a million dollars” or “freedom” or “love, friendship and understanding”. Those are all good starts. Yeah. But refine the baby a bit. What, precisely, do you want?

Then realize what you have. As John Lennon quoted you don’t know what you got, until you lose it. Possibly you are more where you want to be then you realize.

After an assessment of what you desire, then, and only then, figure out how. Don’t let anything stop you. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t play by the rules but there are ways, with perseverance, to achieve just about anything.

First there’s the what
Then there’s the how
Don’t limit the what
Figure out how

Thank you United States of America for being a perfect example of this. Now don’t become 18th Century England.