Darkness Breeds This Thinking Without Thinking

Imagine you are at the beach.

You sit down at a lovely sunny spot and look down at the sand.

Without much thought you take a handful and set it to the side. You do this again and again until you've made a small hole.

You notice that every time you take a handful, more sand rushes to fill it's place. You also notice that despite this, your hole grows deeper every time.

This is the world.

We can eliminate any aspect of it. Rain. Fire. Sickness. Hunger.

And something will always rush to fill it's spot. Something will always try to restore balance.

But it's never enough. The hole grows deeper. The balance is still out of alinement.

The only difference between the beach and the universe is that, on the beach you can fill the hole.

lack

the loose structure

the lack of attention to details like such

why is this the mysterious stranger?

why have I been hiding for so long?

Excitement

Have you ever been so excited for something that you have a dream where what you want happens over and over again. And in between each time you wake up, sometimes in dream and sometimes for real, and you realize it all never happened. But when drift off there it is again.

I hate this.

Why?

It's essentially the worst night of sleep ever.

And all the while your excitement taunts you.

Freezing

When you were younger you used to love watching icicles melt. There was something fascinating about this tiny piece of nature disappearing forever. Now that you are all grown up the icicles have lost their awe. You don't see them as works of art anymore. You see them as people. And they really are quite similar to you.

They are all generally the same, yet each one is so perfectly unique. They spend half of their lives building themselves up and the other half slowly dripping away. And once they're gone, they are gone forever.

You've told others about your theory before but they didn't see it as you did. They had laughed and told you they had an excellent imagination. You really shouldn't of been so surprised about the reaction. After all, not many have seen what you have.

Not many people know how cold humanity can be.

For the most part you've kept your thoughts about icicles to yourself, in fact, you've nearly forgotten about it.

Every once and a while though, temperatures drop and once again hundreds of pieces of frozen water appear everywhere. Those are the times you look out your window and remember you're freezing.



I'm not really sure what brought that on to be honest. I would suspect the chills but maybe not. All I know is that it makes perfect sense really. In some weird way...

Thought you should know

I'm visiting the actual Anasazi cliffs tomorrow.

I wonder what it may bring forth.

Questions of a Lost Soul

Why?

How can it be?

These are such simple questions that anyone can ask, yet, sometimes they provide difficult answers.

I'm sure at some point you've come across a curious (annoying perchance?) child. If so, then you already know how difficult why can be.

At some point you have to draw the line and say "I really haven't got a clue"

No one has all the answers

Anyone that claims they do is not speaking the truth.

And how? Who would know?

The chicken or the egg? How?

A million answers to every question.

Who am I to tell you which one is correct?

Life

I've been around. Just never had the time to drop by.

Thunderbird has a philosophy class, it can truly be enlightening at times, not all the time, but sometimes.

Anyways, the last assignment is to write a personal philosophy.

You can see where I might come in right?

There was a short section before the real writing, multiple choice.
Here are my answers.

1. I believe that, ultimately, everything that exists is:
Spiritual or Physical
Material or Physical
Both Material and Spiritual
Neither Material nor Spiritual

I went with the fourth. Obviously a chair is a material object, but it does not exist. What distinguishes myself from a chair, why do I exist? I think. But thinking is no spiritual process, it's something else.

2. God, spirits and the afterlife:
Exist
Do not exist
May or may not exist

I went with three. The story of God is so amazing and whimsical, it's hard to believe. But so is life. There are so many questions, so little answers. Religion is a toss-up.

3. What is true, is what:
Corresponds with reality
Is coherent
Is useful
Is so

I went with the last again. There is no way to really justify that. Truth just is.

4. We:
Do or can not know anything
Do or can know anything
Do or can know many things
Do or can know some things

Number one is my answer. Nothing can be certain, nothing 100 percent.

5. Whether an action is right or wrong, depends primarily on:
How it affects me
How it affects the happiness of the majority
The reason or motive for the action, regardless of the consequences
Whether it pleases God
How we feel

I went with how we feel. I will explain after

6. For example, sexism, apartheid, murder or rape is:
Right
Wrong
Both right and wrong
Neither right nor wrong

The last. For myself, those are all wrong. But since I believe right and wrong off feelings then "Right" and "Wrong" will always be majority rules. Everyone feels different, some people think killing is okay sometimes, that's fine for them. But a true right and wrong cannot exist.

7. Given my:
African experience
American experience
Asian experience
European experience
International experience
Human experience

Went with the last.

8. I think that one should live a life of:

Whatever they wish. Do what you want, live your life. Should you stumble, find a better footing. Always listen.

9. The most basic principle I hold dearly and wish to recommend to others is:

Listen

My reasoning being, you can have your opinions, I'll have mine, but there are so many sides to each story and only when you hear them all do you see clearly.

10. Because of the following considerations, I believe that life has:
Meaning
No meaning

Life has meaning. Perhaps not inherently, but it's there. Somewhere.

11. To summarize my philosophy of life in one profound statement or sentence, I would say that life is: just this. It's living.

My reason being, with all the views on life it can't be defined and boxed up, packed neatly in a sentence that explains all. It's simply living.

That's that then. Hope you enjoy part of my philosophy of life.