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Living philosophically

#11
Ben the Donkey Offline
I've just chucked in my job.

I'm 47 years old. I don't believe there is anything beyond this. That's the key, really. I was making double the national average national salary. Had a mortgage. 
I was dying, though, one minute at a time.
My family believe i'm a fool. Don't know how to tell them anything, really. 

There is only one thing keeps me alive: Life itself.
That's all there is to it.

I'm heading off, now, to a new thing, somewhere. Got about two weeks before it all comes to a head financially.

Living philosophically? Heh. 
It's all I've ever done.

(Jun 27, 2016 02:43 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote:
Quote:It’s true isn’t it, CC?  It impossible to know yourself.  Even if you know the "self" is an illusion, and embrace the uncertainty, you still can’t escape your image, can you?  You can’t opt out.  Even knowledge is desired to make on wise.  The desire to be desired is always there.


I just noticed something.   I do this all the time.  I leave out letters and entire words.  I can only pick up on it when I read it the next day.  When I forget what I initially said then my mind is no longer anticipating what comes next. Fraggle said once, that there was a name for this, and it was similar to dyslexia. I can’t remember the name of the disorder. I don’t think it’s a disorder, though, do you?  In the discussion about the "self" being an illusion, they talk about how our minds fill in the blanks, and how we can still read a paragraph when it’s jumbled.  


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We read and write from left-right.  If you're trying to locate something, you can scan an area from right-left.  Your visual field will be choppy, and not as smooth, but you’ll be able to pick out more details.  I went to a wine tasting event this weekend with my girlfriends.  One of them wandered off and I was able to quickly spot her within the crowd.  It’s not a good proofreading tip, though.

Well, I’ll be damned. Stryder doesn’t have a time limit on editing.  I was able to fix it.  Wow!  He’s treating us like adults.  I like it!
Try something.

Take a noun. Any word, really. 

Repeat it over and over and over and over and over to yourself... Let's make it "Toilet". 
Keep doing it until that word doesn't mean anything anymore. 

You can do it.
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#12
Secular Sanity Offline
(Jun 30, 2016 11:08 AM)Ben the Donkey Wrote: Try something.

Take a noun. Any word, really. 

Repeat it over and over and over and over and over to yourself... Let's make it "Toilet". 
Keep doing it until that word doesn't mean anything anymore. 

You can do it.

"I began to indulge in the wildest fancies as I lay there in the dark, such as that there was no such town, and even that there was no such state as New Jersey. I fell to repeating the word 'Jersey' over and over again, until it became idiotic and meaningless. If you have ever lain awake at night and repeated one word over and over, thousands and millions and hundreds of thousands of millions of times, you know the disturbing mental state you can get into."—James Thurber

"How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?"—Poe


Where even 'she' loses all meaning...
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#13
Magical Realist Offline
Quote:I've just chucked in my job.

I'm 47 years old. I don't believe there is anything beyond this. That's the key, really. I was making double the national average national salary. Had a mortgage.
I was dying, though, one minute at a time.
My family believe i'm a fool. Don't know how to tell them anything, really.

There is only one thing keeps me alive: Life itself.
That's all there is to it.

I'm heading off, now, to a new thing, somewhere. Got about two weeks before it all comes to a head financially.

Living philosophically? Heh.
It's all I've ever done.

I quit my job rather unexpectedly in 2001. My action was motivated by various stupid management decisions of the company coupled with a growing sense of the inherent evil of corporate entities. Strangely a few days after I did this I started getting my Veteran's disability checks for the first time. A slight synchronistic validation of my decision. I don't know if you are open to any sort of spiritual or cosmic ideas, but remain open during this time to the little coincidences of your life. Take these as cues for navigating your natural course. I believe this is a great transforming decision in your life and the beginning of you living your life more directly and vigorously and passionately. Joseph Campbell said it best: "Follow your bliss." I did that when I was discharged from the Navy. I moved from Texas to Portland Oregon, deliberately taking charge of where I would live for the rest of my life. I have never regretted that decision since.
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#14
Magical Realist Offline
“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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