User:Wellus/Philosophy
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On this page I will talk a little about my general philosphical views. It is an extension to my main user page (User:Wellus).
If you think there is something interesting, if you have some suggestions or you just want to talk about something and make a comment please use the discussion page.
Always keep in mind, everything I state here is disputable if you just have a good and logical reasoning behind it!
(Unfortunately, I don't even believe in logic, well, sometimes... Yuck, just say what you wanna say!)
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[edit] The Entireness
If the universe really had a so-called initial condition and if the physical laws always really worked and and will work as we figured it out, following occurs: Everything in the entire universe influences everything else due to those laws because the world works causally. Things (occurrences) have a reason what is the cause why they happen and they have a result that provides further causes for a series of ongoing events.
This is a strong deterministic view view of everything; for there is no "real" coincidence.
Thus, knowing the initial condition, would make events along the linear axis of time appear completely transparent in both directions, past and future. But we cannot clairvoyantly have a total insight of the future. It is not predictable because we are part of the whole self-influential system and simply cannot have enough capacity for calculations that would require to be aware of every single element in the entire vast universe.
Free will does not exist because it is just a side-illusion of determinism. We don't have a choice in our actions since we are simply influenced by the wholeness. Just as everything else also is.
But this does not inevitably lead to sheer fatalism. It doesn't make any difference for our lives because we don't feel the way to be determined to do something or even to have a fate.
Freedom is still able to thrive within the illusion. Therefore it doesn't matter all; for our every-day life as well as our plans and intentions are seemingly in our hand.
The world also proceeds without anybody watching and classifying it from a certain level of perception on which he is naturally apt to operate only.*
As far as concerning god I don't know if he is worth to be concerned as something extrodenary, or even if he by himself is able to actually concern us as something special. We just omit him so far; he'll hopefully not get mad at me...
Addendum to this section:
I usually don't like to take ideas from people but rather to think of it on my own account. In this sense I've tried to write all of this. Of course this is not entirely possible since certain concepts in their foundations needed to spring from something after all. If not from an individual then certainly from the wholeness of all human intellectual history of thought assembled and proceeded anew.
But still, I found this quote might be sufficient to conclude this very section:
"Human beings in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free but are as causally bound as the stars in their motions." - Albert Einstein
(Fix: The problem of Light Speed???)
[edit] Of Man and Animals
Consciousness is something strange. Considering evolution, race developed only due to adaptation in long random processes fostered by also random mutation and reproduction. It took so far many millions of years and thousands of generations.
After a fair amount of time instinct had proven itself to be very effective for all kinds of things. It is giving the natural and immediate input that suggests acting instantly without hesitation (because that could be fatal). Instinct acts for life's sake only.
Every single one of the biological inane physical endowments are being used to serve mainly three points; the most crucial and only aspects of life after all: providing food and water; reproduce; fend of enemies as well as other dangerous. (These are only the basic inclinations where everything else advances from.) Also, selfishness is pretty natural and has a similar order for each living thing with instinct: the sheer self and then the beings or objects important according to kinship or likeness to the self. Every single action every living thing does is selfish in some sense or the other even though sometimes not discernable at first sight. I don't say that altruism due to devotion made possible by mind does not exist at all, but that is very rare. In most cases the hidden selfishness can be identified by taking a closer examination of the situation and blow the cover of cultured manness.
Basically, this has stayed the same throughout the ages; for everything that lives is just a biological machine.
Proceeding further and conjuring the emergence of the primate some time ago you can say that he was relatively poor equipped in his early stages of development and his rank rather mediocre. And natural selection did what it had to do. Either the primate would be going extinct very fast or the primate had to be advanced to be the fittest. So he organized himself in social structures and orders. He rendered tools to compensate his lack of biological equipment, developed strategies to hunt and defend himself. Now he is able to consider carefully everthing he does, and more important, the stage is set for him to be able to actually think.
As the man completely emerged from the animalness he was even eventually able to curb evolution itself by means of medicine, science and ethics. But still, he bears the remainders of this animalistic past and the long journey of evolving; for he will never be able to set himself completely free from those. This is what hinders him in a lot of different ways. His mind might be ahead but he is not at all.
Anyway, what the thing is I am trying to point out here is that mindness emerged as just an advancement of basic instinct; and it has not changed.
Now, mind has amazing capacities as hinted on above. Those eventually exceeded the need for just making tools clearly and by far. His animalistic sensual organs however - once only developed to hear and see game, feel and taste food, ..., controlled by mere instinct now enable him to observe stars or hear ultra high waves...
Because of his mind, man changes nature and not as before vice versa; for he is so smart that he can think of not wanting to die (and therefore put evolution of his and even other races to almost zero).**
As time goes on we know that life is not perpetual for us. And a world without our own individual is not imaginable (one often imagines it as being present in at least some form). Everybody is going to die sooner or later, as being the biochemical machine that everyone is. The amazing thing about this is that man is actually think about dying because conscious enables him to worry.
A real mere animal probably never had the faintest glint of an idea that life could ever end for it. It is here and now and it has got to care about its basics, instantly and without considered procrastination (see above).
Humans on the other hand worry about a whole lot of things since man is capable of anticipating and elaborating the future beforehand. His world is fraught with permanent anxiety of all kinds.
Even though we can't tell it is most likely to believe that a human mind is just made up out of interacting neuronal connections, and that when our body dies mind does so too. That's it. There might be nothing more at all except for one just being gone.*
That is maybe also why a human's mind is always eager to preserve what he knows. It is also eager to discover anew as if to research and stepping more and more into the darkness to reveal the universe’s secrets. However, preserving will lead the human race to a state where it will be prone to diseases more than it is today. Various random mutations in numerous coincidental individuals will occur and might result in a genetic weakness. If every gene from everywhere is allowed to be equally passed on to the next generation mankind will be impure and messed up in his gene pole.*
The mass dying of selection is serverely curbed and restricted in our age and this might lead to the scenario I just described. All this because mind is to want to cling on to habits and wont circumstances.
But there is also conservation again at an even different level. If one does not live on then at least his spirit and thoughts may find a future. Preserving these things stem from some simple things that also ties in with the mentioned anxiety: The human husk is to fragile and improper to carry the soft fleshy mass behind one's forhead that can evoke such great things and think of mind-dazzling concepts.
The fear of dying is understood and justifiable to have. But there are different types of intentions. Somebody who doesn't want to die because his fears not to find indulgence anymore in his earthly joys or somebody who principally sees him self as the acting outcarrier of seldom thought; for he is different from the rest and discerned something strenuous or new that he doesn't want to take with him in his grave of silence. The latter kind usually tends to write after a time of really distinguishable periods he lived through.
Moreover, it is always to be pitied if a very pensive or "truly knowledgable" character passes away; especially in a young age when the experiences of the world accumulate to form a subtle assessment that might not then have yielded a legacy of precious form for mankind. Even if he as an adoloscent just begins to ponder over the matter it would be another pity to deprive him from this; for all nurture he has received so far now seems sheerly wasted in terms of human time spans and means. This is only a thi to be sad about and is to be prevented by all possible methods. *** (Albeit I have no reason why one should care about leaving something behind??? Maybe it's just the own selfish eager to elicit nature more and more mysteries...)
Over all we can state that the only truth is that there is no truth at all.*** Everything is relative in all terms. There is no good or bad, just or evil, mean or nice. It's all just definition, based on a long complicated process of natural randomness. Life has no point, it just happens.
At the end of this section I want to kind of quote a biology teacher I once head.
"I really hope there is more to this universe than just the transforming of energy and life taking advantage from this due to the emergence of metabolism."
Unfortunately, the universe has to disappoint her in this point...
All humans are more or less different from each other all over the their natural habitat of the earth. This is according to natural selection that yielded a certain progeny. In the time span we observe, it is due to movement and spreading of mankind. Isolation fostered evolution to change appearances of those individuals physically but also mentally. And yes, there are certain differences in intelligence levels, physicall ability and smartness between human races inanely. For instance black human individuals might tend to be less smarter than white ones but have better infamous abilities in sports and atheltics. Now, even if this might have sounded a little racist it is not - or at least not in that common degrading sense of the matter. You can't deny that it makes evolutionary absolutely sense. It does not mean that there is something like inferiority or superiority in an absolute sense at all since evolution affects everybody under equal conditions. But still, there might be something like natural advantage - that's just the way evolution works.
A human being might have certain traits in what he is capable of but the main influence that actually matters is the uprising of his childhood. Certain beliefs, creeds or world views might be instilled in the individual, mostly unaware. In the early years the humand mind does not dive into thinking about the great questions of life but rather figures that his surrounding that acts upon those certain beliefs just works fine. As long as those principles don't get in conflict with the strong instinctive (or the emotional) they might form the fundamentels of all his developing mindness. Having been raised under a strong dogmatic influence requires the more of an effort to take of the shackles. This can be an insurmountable obstacle. If the surrounding is oriented after those principles all over then one might never experience to see the nothingness of the world, for it might just end up in ignorance. That can be bliss and bane as we will see later on.
(With all this in mind you could as well say (equally justifiable) that life works completely different. Since the genes give the building sequences for life that life really is about the genes and therefore about their conservation at any cost. Evolutionary only sense make the facts that random mutations occur, giving life a variety to let selection apply lot fathom things that the apparatus of gene-conservation is prone to, solely for the genes to fix their bearers by advancing themselves. Man is only the carrier of the real thing; genes rule.*)
[edit] Man and His World
Hitherto, considering everything from the last section, it shows that man oftentimes tends to hide is paltry animalistic heritage and his basic Triebe behind a cloak of culture, civilization, and moreover morals; for he is a disguised beast.
By having a lack of the absolute, the world and a blank sheet of paper are quite alike. Having left all morals and dogmas behind (from which a real free mind is liberated) there is nothing at all without somebody making it. If that someone has a complex mind it gets even more interesting.
For those humans beings life seems to be completely without sense, purpose or meaning in their uses of the words. And this is quite a fact you can't get as easily around if thinking brings you at the verge of your understanding.*
This leads to nihilism; that there is nothing but mind that can create concepts. We don't have any certain evidence for anything in the world so we can pretty much make anything up due to convenience or sheer opinion. As long as enough people follow or agree it has become real and has gotten meaning.
Concepts mean nothing. (As far as not conflicting with basic physical laws, which seem to have shown a tendency to be correct.*)
All human ideas and concepts are not really accounted to individuals but rather to the circumstances of the time of human history they are made or made up in.
But still, all humans concepts are only inferences based on observations. Even though a human brain might be capable of much higher abstractions our sensual system does not support those; for man's sensual organs make only evolutionary sense on the lowest level. Just recall that almost every animal has the same senusual organs as we do.*
One cannot refute the truth of solipsism; if not even take it as the only truth that can be proclaimed verily and without any demur.
Hence, every human concept that is not due to physical laws to be proven to have a tendency to be actually as we figured it out is forlorn.*
Even though there is a none of the absolute (objectivity) one is more likely to believe certain things that seem to be reasonable due to logic. Science is a provider for such a likeliness. But one has to always make up his mind that he actually knows nothing, as much as he may try to attain understanding.
One has to free himself completely from all beliefs; even from believing this.**
It doesn't matter how we think the word really is; for we can only judge according to our perception of it. Who knows, maybe there is not even a real world.
If there is a complet real world at all we are certainly not able to fully perceive it. The inference is that all concepts remain mere speculations depending on the human who carries them out or interprets them as well as believes in it.
Thus, everybody can set up what he wants as well as contriving any feesable believe, tenet or creed.
Sly organistions have done so throughout the human era by telling appealing stories about the supposed truth of the world and its origin to common folks, mostly to establish their reign. They have gained a lot of power because the clear words of those fabulists gave the low and high class people a meaning in their often simple lives. Mostly those movements turned secularely out to be responsable for sorrow, death and grief. But they also brought people together because they then had a common concept to rely on.
It is still amazing but also a riddle to me how people even in our time can still cling to them; for there is history to learn from.* But I don't blame those guys at all. They just knew how to bring it on.
It is not so unusual that those organizations have been providing really weird concepts that gave people some things that don't really exist: hope, conservation and understanding. Sometimes people still get really fired up and turn extreme as well as violent for actually no reason. (The power of mind can have a huge influence on the mere instinct.)
As a person completely free from all this stuff I would say that everybody can do what he wants whenever he wants as long as nobody bothers or infringes me in anyway. He may be allowed to do everything. (Has a little connection to selfishness too.*)
Everything is permissible; nothing means anything.
Also, this statement can easily be taken as the final thud to push somebody in the abyss of desperation and following carelessness. This happens when the seeking for the alleged meaning is only answered by confusion and moods of worthlessness resulting in strongly expressed willinglessness.
All seeking for ethics in human nature is forlorn because humans don’t have any "inane" moral responsibility. We only have the biological structure of the cerebrum, which allows us to act in an advanced level of instinct. And instinct is not moral, not good or bad, it is solely, and only solely, sustaining. Sometimes there is a conflict between the mere instinct (natural to all animals in according to needs) and mind (the extension of it). Mere instinct may tell us to do something as a direct input but human consideration is capable of foreseeing possible consequences of an action. That is what makes humans unique to be able to actually discern the causal chain of things in every day living.
But now, as an individual with too many convolutions of the brain that allow us to reach such an extravagant and also utmost point of thought, how should we view the world?
Should we just kill ourselves because anything doesn't make sense anyway? Well, I suppose you could if you don't have an "artificial meaning" to live for, you don't have to get anything done or it is no joy for you at all and you just want to quit. Yeah, sure, why not?*
(By the way, I truly believe that "the absolute" solution of all human problems is the total death [or suicide] of the whole human race caused by itself; willingly or not.)
But there still is a problem in suicide even though the power of thought can sometimes outweigh it. You have to do it. Everything what all evolution and the struggle for survival is about is to persist and pass on one's genes on. You strongly restrain your wish to suicide due to a very low level of animalness that lies within yourself.**
OK, now, what then?
Basically, it looks like people care to much about things that are not there concerns (anymore). Issues like pollution of the world, extinction of species, etc., are pretty much of political nature. Politics is the most malicious and untrustful occurrence that happend to set up deceiving concepts as it fits, just to change quickly to satisfy the constituency or gain even more devotees. Also, cosmic anxiety has a big role in humans caring about everything with their mindful sense of preserving everything.
The best thing would be to do what the following excerpt out of the lyrics of the song Buccaneers Inn finish metal band Battlelore says:
No need to worry the future; Let's live the moment; It's our time we are not going to waste it
Yes, we are only one this planet once* and our mind is (as we feel it) capable to experience certain joys mostly located in the social.
We shouldn't even ponder about ourselves or the future of the universe.***
(We can be lucky that we have nations who emerged to allow its citizens freedom; for there is at least a little peal of reason to observer, even though it took quite a while historically to get away from the delusions of the past.)
So all this suggests following then: Fuck everything and live a complacent life to indulge yourself. Be happy and don't succumb to people who desperately try to make the world a better place. It sometimes takes really ludicrous form of those "activists" in their forlorn attempts to change anything. Other people usually then use to say "those people are not being realistic".*
Mankinds journey is not your journey but the journey of nature. Your fate is not mankinds destiny because you are an unimportant element compared to the "eternity" of the universe.
But why would you want to live your life despairingly devoted to something to "fix the whole"? All the effort, toil and suffering for not concerns of yours? Maybe just to let there be something in the world after you so that people remember you or even live after your principles?
I understand devoted struggling if you are currently surpressed by a group of people or a government to set yourself free (and maybe your fellows*) to reach the state were you are free from dogmas and flawed elusory ideas to set yourself completely free from all concepts. Only then you can thrive in complacency.
Don't just obey, don't be compliant: Don't care.*
This all might sound pretty selfish but you just satisfy what nature is; fall back to your natural principles without consideration. But since you have a mind you are able to switch of certain instinctive compelling habits. You don't have to live in that ruthless struggling for survival anymore because we are elaborate enough to get a more technical approach to our basic concern about food.**
We may be allowed to just chill out.
(One might envy people who are just able to chill without having had that long process of thought that eventually just brings you back to chilling again. Even though it cannot be to worse for also other occasions to go analytically beyond.)
[edit] Reductio ad Absurdum: Of Discord and Confusion
So far in the preliminary sections I have tried to reduce all known (and believed to be certain) facts to the verge of all possible human assessment. Total skepticism towards everything provided to get rid of all earthly morals and human concepts as good as it was possible.
Now, once we have reached this point, we can conclude only one thing: we can't tell anything of the whole except for some vague predictions.
Science is a great things and it can help us to get a better understanding of things around us; for we are actually able to approach "how things really work"** and make predictions. Experiments acknowledge our calculated outcome. We have had success so far because science is sober and only based on bare logic of our mind. It has almost no opinions and things need to be proven by mathematical progression to be recognized as being "true".
Despite the fact that science gives us a good approach it can not give answers regarding the essence of everything. With the same logic it uses too we get quickly to the end. Logic and language start to fail.
At the end of the rational ladder is no spot for a human mind. We are simply not capable of understanding the full thing; for we are a part of it. We might be able figure out all scientific relations and connections in the entire universe as well as apply them for ourselves but it will be always forlorn to seek for external meaning or the purpose of life. But still, there are so many things in our realm where we just think of that there has got to be a purpose because it just looks like it in terms of our human imagination and our experience with the word "purpose".
To live without anything constant in mind, having not sustaining elements at all to prevent yourself from drifting away to the verge of everything, everytime you are awake, nothing to fall back on. One asks himself what the point of living is. Seemingly, nothing doesn't make difference. What you do or not do does not matter for the future if anything that is will end for you anyway. Or even if everythin will be ending some time.*
Surely, there are a lot of purposes in the human every-day world. One can always seek a temporary one to distract oneself. But deep inside it's bugging him; sometimes more, sometimes less.
But the real matter is that thinking so far, having gone onward to this very point of mind, it even starts to deny itself. The self-contradiction begins by saying that there is not truth as we have discovered that nothing is certain and everything only exists because we perceive it as being so. We only know about this world mindfully because we were the ones who made up concepts about it to understand it. We could as well say that the world is not but in our mind; for everything just seems to happen in our very brain.
Here, over all, nothing makes sense anymore. This ends up with leading the mind in the state of total confusion about the everything. All our believes and every individual reasoning about "the truth" negates itself and results in one's discord with his own ideas, who were the fundament to actually bring him so far. He sees the whole picture of the world he made himself dissolving in a blurry mess. There is nothing more left but the absurd.
Now he thinks that everything he thought is sheer imbecile. It has not place in the "real world". In the levels of what is going in the levels of human interaction, business and life. His society gave him enough leisure time to actually be able to think all this stuff. But he knows that he shouldn't care, that all those thoughts he had don't mean anything to anybody because it is just another concept in itself.
What he has though is the praxis of our every day existence and its problems as well as pleasures.
But still, he sees how everybody is taking part in this existence with raging passion. (He wants to get a life too.) But on account of this own skepticism and questioning of the essence he still discerns the meaninglessness behind it. The wuthering storm of the social is reduced to a mere breeze in which silent voices whisper their meaningless and bromidic stories. If this is it he doesn't want to be part of it. It gives him sadness because he cannot wallow himself in pseudo-pleasure as everybody else.
All this gives him a strong pessimistic attitude to everything superficial and new in terms of things that have to do with every-day outcome and human interaction (politics...). But on the contrary he is very open-minded to everything new that provides a little more of the look beyond. Science satisfies his yearning for this by giving him a realm where he doesn't have to worry. He can let go and be amazed by the wonders of the universe and find pleasure in it.
But still, the general confusion remains poking out of the soul when there is time for another pondering request that will remain unanswered again.
One just has to accept the absurd. There is nothing else left anymore. No opinion, no subjectivity and even the previously supposed but just not meant to be perceivable objectivity (reality) has gone astray in a very lone farewell. This is the state of self-denial, the level of insanity.
Since one figured that he shouldn't believe in anything it means that he doesn't have any fundamentels to possibly fall back on. This can be very desperating. The way not to glide of easily into the adjacent abyss of the absurd is to keep one's mind busy; mostly with secular stuff of pseudo-enjoyment so that one doesn't have to think. This is very commonly spread especially in the western complacent culture.
The other way to get away is to deny reality as the real partially. This leads us into the next section of primarily escapism.
[edit] Evading Reality: Escapism, Mysticism and Fantasy
[edit] Escaping from What and Why?
As we have seen plentifully, pondering about the essence doesn’t bring us any further or doesn’t give us any guidelines; particularly after we have unmasked the present ones as being sheer principles of suppression and power.
Also, in the last sections it might have been a little harder to follow since it’s not really easy to talk about something that eventually contradicts itself in its fundamentals.
What remains is total distrust towards anything and the lack of orientation results in bare confusion. It doesn’t have to be necessarily desperation, for desperation is just another sole spot on the road to the final state.
So, why should one bother if it’s not worthwhile and doesn’t give him anything but headaches? This is on of the points of escapism. There is just so much that cannot be understood. But there is also another aspect of escapism.
The ponderous soul always ruminates about the means of everything and therefore encounters problems even in the ordinary everyday life that seem to be insurmountable; for there is a lack of meaning in all sociality.
Imagine a world that is simpler and without the modern ways of society with all it technical advancement, contemporary ethics and world politics. One longs for the simple way of life without the many incomprehensible new problems.
A life that offers direct reward for one’s basic needs. If one just had to solely care for nourishing oneself and just had to get the daily labor done. This picture of a human life might sound very simple and repetitive but it has the advantage that one does not have to worry within cosmic limits. The problems are clear and understandable, life manageable, tangible and pretty straightforward.
What does this longing lead to? Well, the only mind-satisfying solution is the rejection of reality at all. If one is nourished and doesn’t have to care about one’s livelihood, for his mind has enough leisure time to drift away almost whenever he decides so, and with all this nihilistic thought process in mind, one concludes in a justifiable carelessness for the real world.
All concepts, beliefs, sociality and emotions just piss one off. One lost his hope in human race at all and one can sometimes only feel disgust. At a certain point of time Earth will cleanse itself anyway from the human disease, from the sickness of the cranky reasoning consciousness with self-recognition that afflicted this planet.
At the time as one started pondering for the first time and got to know new ideas that brought him away from the strictly regulated and ordered believe system of the childhood he necessarily thought about the fate of mankind, too. Early on, one discerned the badness of life theoretically and through compassion, but not yet the vicious and tasteless nature of man. Thus, one meant to have seen the right way to better the world. Communist teachings and the image of the world that they were proposing seemed to have the ability to really lead mankind into the glorious time of all good, unity and no suffering in any form for anyone. This resulted in a likeliness of the left-wing ideas in general. But after some more time passing with those intentions in mind, one saw in practical and theoretical approaches the true nature of human beings – even in himself. Then suddenly it was clear that the whole idea was just a big folly without a speck of feasibility. Hence, one almost lost completely hope in mankind; the big suffrage was going due to the greediness and selfishness of man. There was only disgust left for mankind and himself; for he felt the animalistic malignity in himself as well as he did in others. Sadness and hopelessness remained. The absurdity about life was once more heavily inflamed.
Conjuring things in nature that are considered beautiful by most human minds, one cannot help seeing only the brutal and ruthless struggle for survival in every single object rather than its warm heartiness or appeal of prettiness that it provides for other people.
There is no beauty in nature because beauty is something wonderfull and one perceives reality as only being cruel and cold. Greed, mistrust, human selfishness and will to power make reality the thing that it is. But one can't blame anybody because it's just the way nature works.
But still, there is a little solace. Nature had eventually endowed humans with such a mind that he can drift away in the realm of imagination and fantasy. One leaves reality behind altogether and just flows in the stream of harmony in a world of non-existence where he now may see magical beauty. All human suffering left behind.
Even though every input comes from our sensual organs it just becomes real because it is evaluated by our brain in a process known as comprehension. We just conceive things as being so because or synapses are somehow stimulated. So who knows what reality is really like? Nobody has a clue and so we can as equally justifiable state that a mere dream or a very good imagination about something is reality as well.
Life is absurd and seems as if it were only random crap; one has got to get away from this by dint of mind and imagination. Who stays in reality is either insane, very though or not thoughtfull enough to reach the fringe of human intellect. I've always envied those people who are "ignorant" enough not to go crazy and live a nice and complacent down-to-earth life. For ignorance is really bliss.
Nature gave humans the possibility to overcome the incomprehensible reality especially if one doesn't have to care about nourishing oneself anymore. One can experience a wonderfull life beyond the banality of every day routine and break out to new enticing states. The help of mind-alering substances might also be a joyfull way to foster the abeyance of sheer shunness from the atrocious reality.
One may rather space out than entangle oneself in forlorn reasoning or tangible problems of the social.
[edit] Mysticism, Occultism and Goth
Once we got out of the confined boundaries of the real life, where are we headed on our imaginary journey? We should first take a look at some ideas about mitigation the confusion about the world. One of it lies in the arcane realms of nature and mind itself.
I found a very nice Einstein quote here that, I think, almost hits the spot of what I want to say as the foundation of this section:
"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that out minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly[...]" - Albert Einstein
Mystics puts the non-understanding of the world and the dry coolness of logic to a warmer level.
The secrets of life and nature are to be revealed from their clandestine concealment by often using meta-scientific methods (alchemy, spirituality, sorcery, clairvoyantness, etc...) to figure things out.
Without religious dogmas the pagan soul acts with the means of nature only and tries to uncover its hidden secrets in is own personal way. There is no scientific generalization or conceptual approach - only the very personal way of understanding the matter.
In every single small peace of nature lies a whole deep and different history beyond;it may express magical beauty to gaze at. The whole thing on the other hand is too huge and witty to be examined all at once, so the mystic focuses on small things and tries to find out about it mostly empirically and completely in astonishment.
(In my mind invoked is only blurred image of the mystic alchemist of the idylized medieval times who lives alone in the woods far of from civilization and conducts his experiments. He uses sorcery as well objects and substances of nature with supposed magic abilities. His gained knowledge he writes down in old big dusty books.
But he doesn't use the dry observation and inference process of the cool logicians nowadays but is rather having his reason tending to the supernatural so that his discovers remain still hidden and mysterious. Someday somebody might make usage out of it.)
The occult reaches out even farther and mystifies everything making that what has been revealed from natures secrets to a clandestine knowledge of highest value. The occult tends to organize itself in mostly small circles made up of some adept people. Groups participate rites based on their common knowledge and believes. It seems to be an also kind of eerie things that is going on and tries to spread a more darker atmosphere. Secrets are always to be cloaked, disguised and foremostly to be kept.
Now, goth culture (including neo-paganism, wicca, medieval devotees, etc..) is pretty much the real life application of all those enticing thoughts by people who got to know the world as a sober and cruel place and just want to have a little imaginary world that offers them so much more than the real one.
Goth culture can have a lot of different appeals to people in all forms of the imaginary, things reality does not yield. Immersed in a world of dream, fantasy and imagination goth culture reaches from the ancient tales and folklore of the north, over the beautified courtesy love (Minnesang) and the idyll of castles and knights as well as long forgotten kingdoms of the idealized middle ages, over the the magic lands of the enchanting fairy tale and old legends to even modern philosophical thoughts of nihilism. Latter destroyed everything beforehand that could have been considered wonderfull in nature; now it is just the mere struggle for survival, and only this.
Goth culture offers both, the sadness about the absurdity of life and the stringent wish to end it, but also on the other hand the mystics of the occult cloaked in shadowy unlight and concealment, it is only something to gaze at in astonishment about the hidden and unknown everywhere present in nature. Its depressive solace is veritably almost mesmerizing to the plagued soul.
The boredom of the usual occurrences of real life without deepness may be overcome by totally letting oneself flow in the imaginary, by transform the little that can be transformed out of the sheer imagination into a small verity, even though it will never reach its beauty that exist only in the realm of mind and the mysterious. That is what goth is all about.
Over all I would say that there is no logical reason to believe in anything mystical or supernatural.* But as we discovered does logic flaw and only gives us tendencies to predict few things - that is what we call science. The level of understanding however is not satisfying at all, whereas in mystics it is recognized that the world cannot be understood in its entireness. It is more about playing with with the little things in a manner of far more connectness to nature to figured out little improving methods and direct application for the simpler way of life. Not by technique but magic and mystery.
Even though over time those methods didn't really give us a lot more comfort in real life it still offers something else to escape in. I don't say that today's advancement of technique in human life are all bullshit, no, they are even great and probably nobody would like to abandon those huge accomplishments! But there is something that humans forgot when they advanced and this neglected element of his existence is still there. Technique takes something away from man that was formerly his habit. Since humans at one time were smart enough to curb evolution their mind got out of the interdependency with nature but his deepest longing did not.
Unfortunately, we see this longing expressed in the reasoning towards fantasy and to escape sometimes really heavy commercially exploited. When people loose their reasoning for what is possible and not based on common sense in real life and start to really believe in not proven supernaturalities it can be kind of sad, dangerous and even sometimes lethal. We still have to see that our imaginary digressions don't mean anything in the cruel reality and we still have to get along to actually live! But though, we have a place to go after we are done with all the earthly bullshit now.
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things bound together. All things connected." - Chief Seattle
[edit] Fantasy
Now, fantasy gathers up a lot of those elements of myth, legend, heroism, folklore, saga, medieval, etc... and transforms it in a wonderful world of mind by also adding some idealized concepts and elements to it.
It creates a world that exist with beauty in everything and stands over the dull reality taking all those inspiratory ideas of the mystical. Here one can experience real calmness, love and relaxation. It is just suitable for the modern soul of a human that is stressed out from the daily toil and bored by the usual methods of avocation of the leisure time between the dullness of occupancy.
We know that the real life at the time of the middle ages must have probably been really bad. People died often from diseases and plagues as well as starvation. The common serf formed the majority of all people and humans in general were uneducated and surpressed by their rulers. Feuds were a daily business and bloody skirmishes took place every day. Also, a huge powerfull machinery oppressed everybody in the name of a higher being that could take them supposedly away from their drear and grim every day struggle.Addendum 1
Altough life sucked that much it doesn't matter for today's interpretation of it anymore. If one imagines those times glorified with castles, heroic knights and quests, evil beauties, pretty and adorable maidens, the courtesy and the fight for the just, the carrouser of the old inns, the magic forests and fairies dwelling in it, the beauty of the landscape of a fantasy realm, and the hidden mystics of sorcery etc... and associates it with the middle ages, what does it matter that people died cruely and perished like rats in reality?
Also, there are some other
[edit] Real-Life Associations: Romanticize - Middle Ages, Folklore and The North
[edit] The Social
[edit] Background
The social is simpler as it might seem.
Perhaps you oftentimes sense clues when interacting as a part of a social situation that hint for a hidden deepness and you infer that there must be a complexity behind the façade after all; albeit there is none.
What this means is that the entire social "in reality" comes down to principles of nature; just as everything does to a certain extend.
Seeing it completely abstracted we could state that in the whole of nature of living things there is only maintenance and therefore survival. Thus, there is instinct and Trieb, also, as to reproduce and hereupon to pass the genetical information; thereof, creating a more of a genetical variety within the species.
Moreover, now in human terms, occurrences such as sexual attraction towards a certain type or kind of individual, or the likeliness of particular body features might be also according to those basic instinctive assessments to merely enhance the progeny.
The male primate seems to take a bigger role in the entailed process of selecting a mating partner even though some of those traits are not completely unseen in the female ones to a more or lesser degree. In today's modern western world the "original roles of the two genders" may be contorted by various factors of society, creating sometimes awkward situations. But we will get to this later.
So far
[edit] The Journey of Study
[edit] Mentality
[edit] The Mentality Gradient
[edit] Nordicness
[edit] Americanism
[edit] The Emotional
[edit] The Social Drug
[edit] The Awakening
[edit] What We Know
[edit] Pessimism and the Alienation of Man
[edit] Recognition of Being a Human Being - Joy, Indulgence, and Self-Acknowledgment of One's Needs
[edit] Commercialism
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- the work not to work
- ingenious business concept necessary
- outlook does not matter anyway
- go to a communist state
- all the time waste before what I should have spent on inventing something ingenious
- just in everyday life: look around what would make live easier and make something only with the intention of leeching people's money
- once you got it you can do what you want
[edit] Aftermath
Considering the fact that I wrote all this about nothing would actually to be pitied; for all this is just another opinion, a mere concept of itself. Probably it ain't gonna change anything if I said it or not.
But it's not completely forlorn since I had a lot of very oppressing thoughts and excruciating phases to obtain all those derivations and the presumbed discernment of mine. The confusedness occurred in each phase of discerning anew, until there was nothing anymore to be concerned, so to say, the absurd remained.
The thoughts seemed to be somewhat disordered, making it even more of an agony. Now, hereby, I've cheated myself by having put a presumbed order on things to sort my think.
Moreover, the stuff is out that oppresses the mind and makes the soul lugubrious in itself. Now there could be enjoyment again, or indulgence to start at all.
The other thing is that those thoughts of mine don't seem to be commonly thought. Since I am to perish something shall preserve them it what form ever; for the fragility of the physical human is enormous and its stability tiny.
Yore there was the ordered, then there was the absurd; let it be to attain the final peace of mind.
In general I would summarize it all in the following diagram, which illustrates the phases of my thought process over all.
[edit] The Chart of Mindness (The Three Columns of Mind)
Mainly based on my own experience and acquired subjections the following chart is designed to show the process of "the way of the mental" in the phase of growing more towards asking "the big questions". The time for all this happening is pretty unpredictable. Also, this chart probably only gives a vague outline of the possible outcomes. To note is that the presumed "outcomes" - or ends - of the several paths in that diagram shall not be taken as being definite and solely the only possible thing; for there are as easily mixtures and skippings happening. I also call this diagram sometimes the "three columns of mind".
(Since the outcomes are not satisfying and could be considered an "unstable situation of mind" I could probably say that I have not yet reached the state of thought or matureness, which would allow me to elongate the diagram so forth as to be able of concluding solubly.)
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[edit] Sidenotes and Addenda
- That's why it is even better understood why the church gained so much power because they offered people the simple hope that the next life won't suck that much anymore. But the malicious power apparatus of the church that formed established doctrines to secularly exploit people - the few who were educated used their knowledge to lead the uneducated and use them in the name of good. But nevertheless the curch also had some binding effects during that time and united people as well as gave them a little hope in their dark age. Furthermore, knowledge was conserved in convents and cloisters, what was mostly important - the way on the other hand is severely disputable.
[edit] References
A very early stage of forming my thoughts can be observed in this essay. It is very interesting because as I wrote it a while ago I had just finished a wonderful fantastic story and so anon this just sprawled out of my mind. Pretty interesting to see is that it contains major thoughts but still very unorganized and not fully thought up until the end. It is worth reading and just to see how chaotic my mind used to be and verily still is: User:Wellus/Miscellaneous#Commentary
A thing I'm currently working on. This is just some stuff that's jotted down so don't take it to serious yet. But you know what? It's shaping me... http://klingspor-thueringen.de/trash/show.php?file=commercial_truth
[edit] Notations
All information posted on this page are mostly my personal opinion ant therefore not a reliable source.
(*) Everything that is marked with a asterisk is to be seen as follows: "I am not sure or certain with this statement or I possibly don’t agree with that by myself. Also, I might just don’t have any clue about it..."
(**) Something is still faulty here. There need to be more thinking about it or just a revision. I think it is possible to get this point straight; it should be fixable.
(***)Strong contradiction here. It might also be self-contradictory.
