Nothing Has Meaning

Ah the joy of calendars. Welcome to 2007. Great achievements await us all, depending on your paradigm and point of view.

Yes, we mark time, and time keeps counting. Yet, as the years roll away, we are less and less in awe and less aware of the passing and more caught up, maybe.

Some of us are enlightened and ever static, and hence dynamic in a way, the beatified smile and serenity of the unaffected residing upon our lips.

Some of us are dead.

Some of us are shallow blind apparitions of animal instinct perfumed into oblivion.

Some of us are unconcerned.

Some of us are tired and waiting.

Some of us are suffering constantly and wondering why.

Some of us have knowledge that we share and then discard and start all over again.

Most of us are unaware of anything at all to do with anything.

Food for thought. Or maybe food for nothing.

Believing implies that the nature of things is a decision. There is no recognition of what is, or that anything is, when one “believes”.

Now, I may see a tree, and believe I don’t. I may believe I am intelligent when I am stupid. I may believe in dreams, when dreams are an illusion. I may believe in gravity, when gravity is without me. I may believe just about anything I want, when those things are not real, definable, or apparent.

Seeing the truth is a state of recognition, not belief. Seeing what is, is a rare ability, to be debunked by the believers.

Truth exists. Within you and without you.

Well meaning. No meaning. Nothing has meaning.

The meaning of life.

Sounds like a broken record, an old analog recording done on a wire spool and played back through ancient equipment repeating over and over. Meaning is subjective, inherently personal, non-existent without a consciousness to create meaning.

Let go of this strange attachment to feeling that there is something more than that and you are free.

Be free.

How can we not be attached? After all, we are only human. Van Morrison

You’re just a human, a victim of the insane. John Lennon

Wellp, actually, we can not be attached but that is one heck of a difficult place to be in a society built on stereotypes, intolerance and religion.

This is also a tough place to be in a society based on freedom, tolerance and justice.

So we are all attached in some manner to something. What do I hold dear? What do you hold dear?

Not as easy a question as apparent. Not so simple to answer. What do you want from life? The Tubes

Why even talk about attachment? Why not?

The underpinnings of attachment are our old favorite, values. Values come from subjective point of view pre-seasoned with genetics and environment.

Unattach yourself.

Royalty. The term comes from payment to the king. Got nothing to do with the post but rhymes.

Thinking about perspective and values now, and again. Seems like thats the topic of this diary. Nothing has meaning without point of view and then all I talk about is point of view. Cool.

So Loyalty is kind of like blind faith. Believing in someone, or something, standing up for them or that, backing up, supporting without question.

Now you can’t be loyal without point of view either, cause those without any preference, or care, cannot find themselves in a position to back a position or a person, really or genuinely. These thoughts are present but difficult to relate. Almost like images and feelings behind the eyes and speaking or writing them doesn’t communicate fully the meaning, or lack thereof.

So the loyal party sets aside potentially conflicting values to support this person or cause unconditionally, many times at their own peril.

Like the chain of command in any military situation where one is presumed to act without question and with loyalty when commanded by higher authority.

True loyalty is rare, good or bad.

When times get tough you want loyal friends and family at your back.

I got your back.

My brother Yianni once said this to me.

He then proceeded to travel a path that took him to many strange and fantastic places, sometimes losing sight of this. Actually, this wise comment came during the particularly strange or remarkable portion of his ongoing journey.

I later reminded him that he told me that no matter what, be true to yourself. To this he said “Really?”

I bring this up because I observe that in a value set, with a value set, one is always finding challenges to these values, compromises, disregardings, ignorings (lovely nouns aren’t they?) and basically a wanton failure to uphold our own personal values.

Why have values if they are to be sold to the highest bidder?

Be true to yourself and the rest is easy.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Category: The Meaning of Life

Came across this in the book The Prize all about the petroleum industry history.

A Wise Old Owl Lived in an Oak
The More He Saw the Less He Spoke
The Less He Spoke the More He Heard
Why can’t we all be like that old bird?

This recalls to me an old saying (presumably) I read in a long forgotten work of fiction.

Least Said Soonest Mended

by Devin Castles

Just as there are universal truths regarding the laws of nature and not to be redundant, but the universe, there are also universal truths about the human condition.

Our brains our wired to benefit from interaction with other people.

Our bodies heal faster around human contact.

Man is not a solitary creature. Solitude can help reflection, but is not a necessary ingredient all the time.

Nothing matters, but truth exists.

Nothing’s really something because nothing ever changes
It just takes a little while to realize what same is
But it’s all the same to me

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Category: The Meaning Of Life

This gets back to the underlying concept of nothing.

Rather than talking or thinking or writing or speaking in circles by attempting to define “nothing” simply think of nothing as “something”. Like a dream. A shadow of something real. (The Last Wave.)

So nothing motivates me. That can mean I am unmotivated by anything or that can mean that I am motivated by nothing.

So by now you can see that I am motivated by nothing or this site wouldn’t exist.

What is the meaning of all this?

Nothing Has Meaning.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Category: The Meaning of Life

So next we move to the subjective. First, we accept that we exist, or not, irrespective of any intent or perception on our part. (If you cannot accept that, hit the home button on your browser.)

Next we can, or will, look at the context in which we find ourselves.

Context is a tricky word.

Context Defined

Much used by Adam Clark of Freedom Philosophy and sk8evangelist fame, the meaning (pun intended, permanently, consider the use of the word meaning here a permanent pun as the lack thereof is the premise of the site) of the word in its simplest form is, of course, meaning.

The meaning other than meaning is setting. The setting in which something occurs.

Do you remember Alice in Wonderland by Charles Dodgeson aka Lewis Carroll? The part about meaning what you say versus saying what you mean brought up by the Mad Hatter? (I hope. Been a long time since I read that passage.) Very cool mind workout there.

Context is relevant in that passage because obviously you can say what you mean and not be meaning what you say or vice versa. So context can mean, meaning, or intended point of view.

Values. The foundation of meaning.

Totally subjective, totally arbitrary, totally cultural.