At times it feels that as one person the scope of my actions will be too insignificant for me even to waste the time and energy. It's important to realize that things take time. The ripples of your actions can easily spread far with enough force behind them. The effects of a person's simple and sometimes mindless actions are frequently overlooked. A friendly, easy smile to someone on the bus might lead to a great change on the other side of the globe as the ripples flow out and the small deed is paid forward. Friends lets work together to make a difference.
The world is in constant motion, there is constant change, we never stop moving. What we do now will have a permanent effect on what we can experience in the future. Let's make it so what we do now only increases the possibilities of the future.
Everything created in 7 days. everything happening now and not at all. everything that has been, is, and will be, IS at all times and at the same time. It seems things are over or not yet happening but that is only from our perspective. From another's perspective, say God's, we could see the beginning and the end of time. One unfathomably huge dot in space. God sits on top if it all seeing everything happening the past, present, and future all continue to happen as he can see it all happening from well beyond the 4th dimension of time. To our human minds, this seems rather impossible. But look at what's going on around you, some many things have yet to be explained and understood. What's a bit more added on to discover?
I was typing out a few random thoughts at the end there. Kind of a funky thought though.
ReplyDeleteWorking Title should be your official name. Or is it? THe parentheses bar you in, though. I mean, it could be argued either way, actually: they bar you in, or they keep you structured and contained as you are working through new ideas and new ways to define yourself. That's the cool and important thing: NEW WAYS <--note "s" to define yourself means that you aren't stopping at one thing. Ruts are to be avoided, but comfort from familiarity is to be sought. All of this stuff is hard because it's spacey and abstract, but I hope you know what I mean for the time being.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, your comment about God was nice. That was really you, huh? it's a tough thing to think about. And if you think about it without God, what is it? I just wrote a paper about Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Star" ...Everyone should read it, DEAR BLOGGERS. How can I post these things? Probably a simple copy and paste: http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/star_clarke.html
Hope that works. Anyway, it's not directly related, but I think about what it would be if you didn't count on God to do the viewing of the "dot" or point of all things and all time. If there was no one sitting from such a height to perceive the time and totality of matter, then would it become irrelevant, so that we'd again only deal with our time? Or would it be the same as it is now--relevant, because we can fathom it? Definitely I am getting too vague and irrelevant.
It's snowing a lot here. I'll be posting later.
Read THE STAR if you have time.
It becomes somewhat more understandable to view the totality of all time as one thing when you think of yourself moving through yoru life.
ReplyDeletelike, I am sitting here, and it's easy enough for me to imagine that the future second/minute/hour exists because there seems to be that continuum of space--a consistency of the environment I'm writing in. It's like inductive reasoning: I think that why wouldn't I exist another minute into the future and why wouldn't the environment remain the same (practically-speaking; sure it all changes subtly) if it has been doing this? I think that either I am being consistently recreated to near-imitating perfection, or else the future exists in a little space before me (and the past in a more stretched but saggy space behind me, so that the past is larger, but the muddle of it makes it almost equal to the tightness of the pocket of future ahead), and I just push out into it as I keep being recreated.
I think that's the hard part about a comfortable and routine life: you can sit there having these thoughts, thinking gee, this is all the same, who knows if i'm alive or dead or dreaming? well, you only are doubting it because you aren't experiencing any noticeable change or pressure from outside forces. I will go whole days sometimes not talking to people, and it sucks, but that' sjust the emotions. The intellect is like "wtf, mate, you better say something or laugh or do some creepy shit to know that you are really alive! and that you have an impact on the world outside of you!" I make a creepy face in the mirror, and i cause myself to laugh at myself. that means at least my actions have consequence. That's stupid. then you think about all of the people who live their lives constatly in som kind of pain, where they are always aware that they exist.
interesting that being aware of your existence depends on your physical body. the most doubtful times for me seem to be when you are perfectly still with your body, and just thinking, and no one is around you (no other physical bodies of life). you wonder what strange force is within you which produces these thoughts. but then if you have a cold (like me!), you know you are alive, you suffer the bodily discomfort, and that plays with your spirit's functions too. I can't read or think well when I"m sick.
Okay. that was because I had a thought and i will still maybe be posting later. Do PEOPLE READ THESE COMMENTS?
I like how Descarte puts it -- we think therefore we are. Cognito ergo sum. That we do or do not interact with people in "reality" doesn't me we do or don't exist. We exist because we are thinking beings whether or not the environment we're in is actually real or just in our minds. If its in our mind then its real enough. It impacts our life jsut the same that it would if it were actually the reality.
ReplyDeleteI don't quite think, then, that our existence depends on our physical body. lying perfectly still at night trying to fall asleep with just me and my thoughts, with just my mind, is very real and very weird. Its like i don't even need my body to exist because I can even forget that its actually there if i lose myself deep in thought (as I ususally do). It's like the MInd is the least common denominator (LCD) of my existence. A body is the medium between the mind and the environment. My mind interacts with its environment through the body. The eyes, ears, hands, mouth, lips, etc.. all sense and perceive the stimuli in hte environment and send the information to my mind to be processed and experienced.
I don't have much time right now to write but I'd like to touch on one more point in your comment....You say you can go days with out talking to someone or interacting....Your lack of action has just as much effect on the universe than your overt actions. Think of inaction as an action itself. For example if I were to sit alone in my room for a month completely isolated from others and any other environment the effect would be that I didn't effect anything or anyone. at least for that month. So then if I had left the room, if i had interacted, I would have definitely caused change to occur, smiling at one person or losing my temper with any other. whatever I would have done is not done because Im alone in my room. So not interacting means you dont have that affect you would have had on people. You don't let your light be seen so they go down a different path than the one they would have had I crossed paths with them.
Another thing about this, the month I spend alone in my room will affect my person in very different ways than my interactions with society and the environment would have had I not been alone for the month. So when I come out of my room I will be a completely different person. what i do from then on will not at all be what i would have done had i not been alone in a single room for a month. so my actions will have much different effects on the world around me.
This obviously goes beyond just being alone or with people. It matters who you are with and for how long. every micro action you do matters. every second, every thought.
also..thoughts come from memories, mostly at least, it seems ill have more to say about that latter i guess. off to study cognitive psych!!!