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We live our lives separated from Being.
We are divorced from the Being of others around us as well as from our own inner Being. Animals, which we relate to as inferior, are doing much better - they are never disconnected from their essential, authentic Being. In fact, each animal is an intact, wholistic essence, undevided or splited. Their Animal Being is ruling and uniting everything into a one homogenous, nucleus being. However, in us humans - every single part of us aspires to domineer the others, to take control and become a single ruling monarch, even if for a while: our gluttony, our sexual urges, our greediness, pride, vulnerability, lust for power - every part wishes the whole dominion for itself. If the boss (the Being) is not at home, the kids (the demons of lust, emotions, sex and ego) are in frenzy for dominance and control. When Gulliver arrived at the "Yahoo’s land", he met human beings who were subject to their most primitive and raw urges and thus acted "like animals" - where in fact their behavior was typically and totally human. They behaved in a manner which we (unjustly so) attribute to animals,' although animals never behave the way human do. The animals (the horses) in "Yahoo's land", who were the masters of the place, were peaceful, enlightened, full of essence & being. The implication is clear: not like the animals, who have stayed faithful to voice of their natural being, we Human beings have crowned upon our undeveloped inner Being the demons of lust and desire. To be in touch with our inner Being means: to be authentic, to come from within, to be in communion with our inner core, with our own personal center of gravity, with one's own inner child. As we grow up and mature, we should naturally and gradually part from the inner Being of childhood - the juvenile, premature, crude and formless inner being. By majority, most people get stuck and trapped in one point or another of their marginal life which surround these primitive essences, instead of letting a more mature essence and a center of gravity to form up and be established within them. It is very much like the change from premature baby teeth, to permanent adult teeth. We are, in relating to our inner being, like a person who still keeps his baby teeth and thus is bound to be very preoccupied with his lips - sipping liquids and licking ice-cream all day, avoiding hard solid foods. What else is it like? It is like a group of people who crash-land on a deserted island. Once they settle, each one of them gets involved in a different activity, as suits each traits, inclinations and whim : one is looking for some food, another is busy wandering around, another builds a tree house, while others swim, or pray or whatever. They all try to personally adjust to the situation, none of them is connected to the very essence, the real and only being of what it actually means to be stuck on a deserted island. If they were - they should have been burning with the fire and urge of finding a way out. Indeed, this is the term which best defines the attitude toward the being: to burn in an inner fire. What comes from within, from the inner core of our selfhood (inner Being) is charging us with great strength & vitality, as if we were connected to some electrical current source. That means that things may happen because we ARE - not because we DO. The other alternative is to get yourself charged up and activated by your own batteries: by moods, pressure, stress, aggression, anxiety, fears, lust, initiative and self discipline. In these outer sections of life style your actions are mechanical: you need ‘to do’ so you could ‘be,' and if you do not do (each time anew) you sink into void and emptiness - for there is no Being inside you. To be activated by and from the Being - is to be present, to live life generated from your true and real existence. You do not have to do anything from your own initiative - because the mere fact of your being in harmony with your core existence - makes you do what is needed. This is like the famous riddle of "what comes first" - the chicken or the egg? Do you need to do so you could be, or do you need to be so you could do? Well, of course, the Being comes first. The doing results from the Being. However, most people are investing in doing for the sake of doing - escaping the void which lurks within, getting from this doing a kind of false sense of having a Being.This activity is not natural and is mechanical, generated by great anxiety, fueld by fear of emptiness. Indeed, Sisypus's curse has its print here - each time over and again we try to fill up this chasm of emptiness, and each time, on the next day or so, it gets empty again. In nature all comes from being, from the core. Only we, human beings, are in exile from our homeland, from our own Being, ceaslessly trying to reach fulfillment and happyness, exerting efforts non-stop , all the time in full gas, with our engine in maximum capacity - just not to be left behind. The loud, extroverted Americanization is ruling our life and leading our actions , while the quiet Being is fading away, disappearing. The Being goes mute, withdraws from any expression - while we find more and more external substitutes to the unmediated contact of our own Being with others': Internet, fax, cord-less phone, magazines, parties, social gatherings, excitements, entertainments. Thos who are "Being-starved" (not getting the real fuel become addicted to substitutes: more TV watching, more news consuming, more shopings, more parties, more trips, more sports, etc. Each new toy, activity or way of spending time - is yet another tombstone on the grave of the being. And so, modern human being lives in continual severance from his inner Being and from the Being of those around him. Thus alienation and foreignness are celebrating and life become dead , in an empty, mechanical world, lacking any dimension of depth, intimacy and individuality. A world in which 'the other' is perceived as a poster, one dimensional, loud and superficial. For the individual this is a world of labels and not of essences, of mechanisms and not of dynamics, of techniques & manipulations, and not of values and significants. We have the ability to be and to maintain a symbiotic communication between our own Being and that of others. Pity, that instead of sensing the inside of another (from the inside of ourselves), instead of streaming toward him (or her) quietly and letting them stream toward us without an effort - we paint and engrave on the exterior of the other - our version of inner turmoil. For a person who is disconnected from his own being - a meeting with his inside is a meeting with emptiness. But one need to presist and stay with the nothingness inside - bear with its pain - until they could feel the silent presence of their inner Being slowly emerging from within. Most of us are running away from this silence, although silence is the main medium by which the inner Being can be touched and communicated to. The severance from Being means being asleep, or the lack of consciousness to the real happening of life beyond the illusion of their outer display. Those who are severed from Being - live in a sleepy world, a world in which dreams and fantasies flourishing. The stronger is the severance from the Being - the deeper the sleep is and the more powerful are the dreams. We dream of romances, love affairs, bigger houses, food, sex and more sex, success, and so on. The culture helps us to actualize these dreams and fantasies by alluring us with commercials on the TV, colorfull pictures, sucess stories of the rich and the famous, movies, all working in service of the grand sleep, all generating dreams and more dreams. Those commercial dreams join the private fantasies that we manufacture from within ourselves, fantasies that encircle around the prison bars of our sleeping cabin in which our inner essence is trapped. To wake up from being fast asleep means to wake up the sleeping beauty in the deserted Being castle. Who will be the silver prince who will wake the sleeping princess up from her slumber and will sublimate her romantic fantasy with the fresh vivid reality? Who will give her back her dominion in the kingdom of the living? Of course not everything is black and white, awake or asleep, Being or labels. There are artists torn between the Being and the social substitute, who by origin, by essence and inclination are the Being-faithful. They represent the Being to the world - therefore their slogan must be authenticity, loyalty to the voice of the Being. Their craftsmanship is to shape and model the voice of the Being that overflows from within. Poets, playwrights, musicians, singers, painters - driven by the spirit of the Being breathing inside them - try to give it expression and enable it via with their art. In other words, artists may be awake and aware to the cry of their Beings and to the Being in exile around them. However, their curse is that they can express their Being only through the limited medium of their arts, confined and conditioned by the society of the sleeping people, who would permit the Being to exist only if presented as and by art. In the isolated reserves or ghettos of their arts, far away from the political commercial reality of everyday life, the artists may experience a true sense of being connected to their inner being. But, some artists may stray and conform to the social accepted norms - for money, deserting the vision of the being for personal gain, surrendering their art to the ruling establishment. Painters become graphic artists, writers turn into journalists, playwrights become copywriters, directors of features become directors of commercials or soap operas, thinkers and philosophers become gurus, poet become jingles composers. All of them giving up their own Being potential for the false securing hug of society. How unfortunate it is, that people are lead to believe and follow such false prophets, behind whos backs, blocked and kept out of sight , are the true prophets, the true upholders of the Being - doomed to isolation and frustration. After reading this, what are your thoughts? Specforces
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Do you write these yourself? They're very good. However, it tended to be a bit redundant. It sounds to me like what you're describing is simply a 'soul', whether or not you wish to call it that. A quote from "Hitchhiker's Guide" tends to sum up this situation fairly well:
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lol spec you get so absorbed in your own thoughts that they just grow and grow and then spill out of themselves into a beautiful explaination of something noone else could have explained in such a way.
Like turning the key of a car, starting the engine and revving it up and then let the vibrations sink into your back as you lift your foot off the pedal, smile and sigh. A bird, pulling itself from the earth, into the air as it flaps faster and faster until finally it floats down onto a branch to observe the expressions on the faces below him. a couple images i got after observing spec's post.
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Thats amazing. It's probably because animals can't communicate with us.
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Yes, I wrote this. Thank a little bit of AP English and Philosophy class for what I do. I do a bit of research on some of the stuff I post also.
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First, spec, you're too intelligent to be wasting these philosophies here - go to the public!
Second of all, I agree. I think one of the most ingenious quotes was from the Matrix: "Every mammal instinctively creates a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area and you multiply. You multiply until every natural resource is consumned. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area." As much as humans would like to deny it, it's absolutely true. We feel we're too "good" or "intelligent" for this world when in all reality we walk ourselves into problems that we make half-assed answers for. And because we can create so many things to make our lives easier and better (at the cost of everything else in the world) we self-proclaim ourselves that anything that cannot create technology with their own hand is inferior. How foolish we are. Luckily, it's in our nature to destroy ourselves, so it'll only be a few thousand years before the animals re-inherit the Earth.
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A few thousand years? We're past the point of no return, Jazz. In thirty years or less, every rainforest on the planet will be destroyed. Global heating and the ozone depletion are becoming serious, and we're eventually going to have to find an alternative to fossil fuels. I give us three hundred years, max.
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I just hope I die before the major shit really starts to happen.
All other animals adapt to their environment. We, however, make the environment adapt to us. |
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I said a few thousand years, because it's likely we won't TOTALLY be eliminated in 300 years (unless we blow the planet up. . .) but I'm saying the total erridatication of the human race will take about 1000 years. After that, the world will return to it's intended state (humans being the unintended) and all that will be left are empty ruins of cities and animals.
Or.. we do the fast track and melt the polar ice caps, killing us within about 50 years. Glorius species, aren't we?
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Of course we are glorious. Until we realize we're not glorious. Dude, that would be thightest thing if the ice caps melted at slow and steady speed, so we wouldnt be crushed in a giant wave so much as we would be able surf our way to Wal-Mart for groceries. Wouldnt that be awesome? Just like normal life, but you ride your jetski to work! I wanna dream about that so badly.
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you guys are paranoid. they were saying we'd run out of resources and die in our stink like 20 years ago.
yet here we are. new technology and discoveries will keep us living infinitely better for an infinate amount of time. As long as we're careful. Malthus was/is wrong. philosophers are naturally pessimistic and critical. i learned about this stuff couple weeks ago at school. cleaner cars, better methods of producing crops, higher efficiency in almost everything, smaller electronics, better quality. =D
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The essence of humanity is dangerous to society.
If we let ourselves be the human animals that we are, society would crumble. Common forms of expression such as painting and writing are using the tools given to us by society, to express ourselves. Since they come from outside of our being, they are inadequate to truly articulate our Being to others. As for the "hugs from society", human beings are group animals. Our natural state is with others. Society takes that away from us, ironically. A sense of community and belonging is essential for our tiny brains to function properly. Society creates a grand image of what it takes to belong, and most are unable, or unwilling, to reach the plateau so far above our heads. I believe this explains trends and street gangs. Brother(Sister)Hood and having enemies seems to be what drives us. The US versus Them mentality that has built most modern nations. To give some perspective on the whole idea of community amongst the same species, let's examine an ant colony. Every member of the colony has their purpose, and serves that purpose. There is no complaining amongst them, no power struggles, for they have real enemies to preoccupy themselves with. We, as human beings don't. We have created the "global village" through technology and no longer see the people of other nations or races as enemies (for the most part), simply because they are of a different race or nationality. Would we be alone and frustrated if at any time a group of others would attack us? Or would we stay with others simply for security? |
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