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What is Your Meaning of Life?
Posted by: adonis49 on: June 10, 2009
What is the Meaning of Life?
In a previous essay “Ideology: Not such a bad Concept before Ruling” I dealt with the notions of ideologies, philosophies, and religions: their purposes and structures. I ended the essay with the following paragraph:
“In many moments in life we ask “what is the meaning of and purpose in life?” How about we start from the obvious? We are a bunch of jumbled passions that we all share and that drive our life; we ache by reflection to re-order our passions and sort out the strongest passions that mean most to us. We want to be discriminated as an individual, not on physical traits but as thinking reflecting persons that have distinct set of strong passions that we manage to prioritize and focus; we finally think that we know who we are and what passions drove our life. We want to be at peace with our soul and spirit.”
When we claim that we are in an introspection phase then we are explicitly finding time to sort out the driving passions that were predictive of our life path. We all have the same passions at various degrees of power and interest that no outside processes can change or transform unless we consciously act on them to redirect our focus. Introspections are highly useful conscious periods in our life to comprehend the strongest of our passions and set priority for future activities. Basically, we are adopting a philosophy to life that is compatible with our strongest passions. That is what we constantly do: we are addicted to constructing models because we are spiritual designers. We want to categorize our passions intellectually, by our volition and labor of reflection.
Most religions have to erect an ideology and sometimes slightly update it to face changes; the sacerdotal castes main job is to pressure you to accept their set values and morals as the best that characterize you. In fact, religions do not want you to exercise introspection and learn your own characteristics; they want to “save you that hassle” and show you the proper way; they want you to be the man among all same men with preferred set of passions instead of realizing your individuality. Only those following the preferred “type” are selected in heaven as on earth; the black sheep of strong individuality are not recognized in heaven because only the mediocre, the humble, the naïve, the simple minded can be saved.
That was a good starting lead to answering the meaning of life. I have a question: if you were to chose between knowing the “truth” or safeguarding and preserving your conscious then what would you decide? I know that you will try to circumvent this basic query by returning a question with another one such as “Isn’t conscious linked to truth searching?” or “Isn’t knowledge an illusion?”
If even scientific facts should be recognized as statistical facts because uncontrolled observations have the tendency to show up occasionally and need to be categorized, understood, and then modeled. If justice is fundamentally a consensus agreement among the jury then why do we cling so staunchly to truth or “absolute fact”? If “truth” is not reachable, if we know that any predictive model can be altered by surprised “chance” observations, if it is proven at every moment in our life that uncertainty is king and it loves to convince you at the most critical events, then why fight for truth and spread disorder for an illusion? Our scientific and rational mind is fighting the good fight and is persistent in its endeavor because it refuses impositions of religious abstract notions that have no foundations or convincing premises. Our scientific mind is not fighting “faith” but fighting the sacerdotal castes’ value systems and ideologies.
What about conscious? We can define conscious by its consequences on our nerves, its wrenching battle through sleepless nights, and through nightmares. Conscious is the constant fighting between imposed religious set values and your strong valid passions that define your individuality. We are battling to preserve our rightful individuality in a manner that would not shock the community as “crazy behaviors”. Most of the time we define conscious as how the community expect us to act and decide because religious belief system is enduring and hard to conciliate with.
You always have a choice: truth or conscious; and this dichotomy is not to vanish any time soon and you will have to select differently at many moments. This critical choice is our daily battle and our constant struggle to find meaning to our life.
By God, I hope that the set values imposed on me is the correct one. I would hate after death to face up a reality that is not compatible with what I cowardly submitted to. I would hate to be condemned for laziness in the mind or condemned for not acting according to my own labor of reflection. Justice is ultimately an individual case and what the community believed is totally irrelevant and redundant for supporting clemency.
What is the Meaning of Life?
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 8, 2009
What is the Meaning of Life? (April 6, 2009)
In a previous essay “Ideology: Not such a bad Concept before Ruling” I dealt with the notions of ideologies, philosophies, and religions: their purposes and structures. I ended the essay with the following paragraph:
“In many moments in life we ask “what is the meaning of and purpose in life?” How about we start from the obvious? We are a bunch of jumbled passions that we all share and that drive our life; we ache by reflection to re-order our passions and sort out the strongest passions that mean most to us. We want to be discriminated as an individual, not on physical traits but as thinking reflecting persons that have distinct set of strong passions that we manage to prioritize and focus; we finally think that we know who we are and what passions drove our life. We want to be at peace with our soul and spirit.”
When we claim that we are in an introspection phase then we are explicitly finding time to sort out the driving passions that were predictive of our life path. We all have the same passions at various degrees of power and interest that no outside processes can change or transform unless we consciously act on them to redirect our focus. Introspections are highly useful conscious periods in our life to comprehend the strongest of our passions and set priority for future activities. Basically, we are adopting a philosophy to life that is compatible with our strongest passions. That is what we constantly do: we are addicted to constructing models because we are spiritual designers. We want to categorize our passions intellectually, by our volition and labor of reflection.
Most religions have to erect an ideology and sometimes slightly update it to face changes; the sacerdotal castes main job is to pressure you to accept their set of values and morals as the best that characterize you. In fact, religions do not want you to exercise introspection and learn your own characteristics; they want to “save you that hassle” and show you the proper way; they want you to be the man, among all same men, with preferred set of passions instead of realizing your individuality. Only those following the preferred “type” are selected in heaven as on earth; the black sheep of strong individuality are not recognized in heaven because only the mediocre, the humble, the naïve, the simple-minded can be saved.
That was a good starting lead to answering the meaning of life. I have a question: if you were to choose between knowing the “truth” or safeguarding and preserving your conscious then what would you decide? I know that you will try to circumvent this basic query by returning a question with another one such as “Isn’t conscious linked to truth searching?” or “Isn’t knowledge an illusion?”
If even scientific facts should be recognized as statistical facts because uncontrolled observations have the tendency to show up occasionally and need to be categorized, understood, and then modeled. If justice is fundamentally a consensus agreement among the jury then why do we cling so staunchly to truth or “absolute fact”?
If “truth” is not reachable, if we know that any predictive model can be altered by surprised “chance” observations, if it is proven at every moment in our life that uncertainty is king and it loves to convince you at the most critical events, then why fight for truth and spread disorder for an illusion?
Our scientific and rational mind is fighting the good fight and is persistent in its endeavor because it refuses impositions of religious abstract notions that have no foundations or convincing premises. Our scientific mind is not fighting “faith” but fighting the sacerdotal castes’ value systems and ideologies.
What about conscious? We can define conscious by its consequences on our nerves, its wrenching battle through sleepless nights, and through nightmares. Conscious is the constant fighting between imposed religious set values and your strong valid passions that define your individuality. We are battling to preserve our rightful individuality in a manner that would not shock the community as “crazy behaviors”.
Most of the time we define conscious as how the community expect us to act and decide because religious belief system is enduring and hard to conciliate with.
You always have a choice: truth or conscious; and this dichotomy is not to vanish any time soon and you will have to select differently at many moments. This critical choice is our daily battle and our constant struggle to find meaning to our life.
By God, I hope that the set values imposed on me is the correct one. I would hate after death to face up a reality that is not compatible with what I cowardly submitted to. I would hate to be condemned for laziness in the mind or condemned for not acting according to my own labor of reflection. Justice is ultimately an individual case and what the community believed is totally irrelevant and redundant for supporting supposed clemency.
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