Kryolotor
2004-05-28, 03:49
I just thought I would share a train of thought I had with you all.
"I personally feel that if we are all simply figments of imagination to some greater being that I will make that being sorry he ever dreamed me up. I will not stop until I am free from the binds that hold me here if all I am is sand in the wind. That would just suck donkey dick.
That brings to mind the tremendous ability humans as a whole have of inventing a 'truth' in their mind and believing it whole-heartedly. This would show that we have the ability to shape the way we see reality, to twist it into our own perspective. This would seem to pull some weight in the favor of objectivism, seeing as how the entirity of that obviously unfinished philosophy is that we can control our own perceptions.
Knowing all of this leads me to believe that what I see and feel is just my perspective. I may have invented people I have met for my own mental protection. I could have changed someones reaction to what I said or did. Hell, I may have even been hit by a bus for all I know, and I'm jsut sitting in a hospital right now dreaming my life up.
Perhaps, then, the truths that we all seem to be striving for are found in this middle ground between the views of the world. You know, clean of all politics and social precepts. A perspective on life much akin to a child's, where the only thing that matters is what is right and wrong to you individually. In the true middle ground, there would be only one right or wrong. With these stained eyes that we see the world with, of course we no longer can seperate absolute right from absolute wrong. It has all blurred together as one.
The only way, it would seem, to reach this middle ground would be to slowly and completely deconstruct your own perspective. This would require an amazing amount of insight in order to be able to look at your views and memories and pick out the paradoxes and all the other inconsistancies or comforts. That is where I think my truth will lie."
I know that this is not a revelation in any way, but to be honest, I am not posting it for you. By typing this out, I'm clarifying what I believe and when I die, I have only myself to answer to. I have no other expectation than for this to get flamed with minimal agreement.
"I personally feel that if we are all simply figments of imagination to some greater being that I will make that being sorry he ever dreamed me up. I will not stop until I am free from the binds that hold me here if all I am is sand in the wind. That would just suck donkey dick.
That brings to mind the tremendous ability humans as a whole have of inventing a 'truth' in their mind and believing it whole-heartedly. This would show that we have the ability to shape the way we see reality, to twist it into our own perspective. This would seem to pull some weight in the favor of objectivism, seeing as how the entirity of that obviously unfinished philosophy is that we can control our own perceptions.
Knowing all of this leads me to believe that what I see and feel is just my perspective. I may have invented people I have met for my own mental protection. I could have changed someones reaction to what I said or did. Hell, I may have even been hit by a bus for all I know, and I'm jsut sitting in a hospital right now dreaming my life up.
Perhaps, then, the truths that we all seem to be striving for are found in this middle ground between the views of the world. You know, clean of all politics and social precepts. A perspective on life much akin to a child's, where the only thing that matters is what is right and wrong to you individually. In the true middle ground, there would be only one right or wrong. With these stained eyes that we see the world with, of course we no longer can seperate absolute right from absolute wrong. It has all blurred together as one.
The only way, it would seem, to reach this middle ground would be to slowly and completely deconstruct your own perspective. This would require an amazing amount of insight in order to be able to look at your views and memories and pick out the paradoxes and all the other inconsistancies or comforts. That is where I think my truth will lie."
I know that this is not a revelation in any way, but to be honest, I am not posting it for you. By typing this out, I'm clarifying what I believe and when I die, I have only myself to answer to. I have no other expectation than for this to get flamed with minimal agreement.