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Things That Blow Your Mind
We can only really understand ourselves. Sure we may get extremely close to a family member, a friend, a boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, but at the end of the day we are the only one who really understands why we make the choices we do. And are these choices really even our own, if we are made of matter that is in everything else in the world are we not essentially computers who are just living out what evolution/biology put forth?
I read these two today: "i think that young kids over in south africa have to survive on their own in every sense of the word, (get food clothing water ect) they live in places that literally look worse than the garbage dumps where i live. but yet im still unable to "not sweat" the small problems that i have. " "I think about homeless people... I think about how when they were children, they never thought that someday they would have no one to care for them and they would be living outside. Like I imagine homeless people as children and I think to myself, some people I went to high school with will most likely be homeless one day and not taking care of themselves, not eating and all of that. Feels sad man." What kinda stuff do you ponder? |
I've come to realize that I tend to value knowledge and the pursuit of it over other values in life and it pains me when I can't share the knowledge that I do have with certain people or they won't listen to what I'm sharing with them.
I walk through the streets and see them struggling and they don't have to. They are caught in a poverty cycle that can be broken if they could just turn around the negative mentality that they have. I do know that's not an easy thing when that is all you have known in life and you are just trying to survive on a day to day basis but I wish I could find just a select few with enough passion and internal drive to break from free the mental chains that are holding them back. |
I adore knowledge too and seek it everywhere, it's in my nature. But I regard all knowledge as grains of sand on an infinite beach that can never reveal to us the whole picture. Like the zen proverb goes: possessing much knowledge is like having a 1000 foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook.
But I ponder loadsa stuff. I ponder whether everything we see really exists or are mental illusions. I ponder whether we live in a multiverse. I ponder what portion of reality our senses can detect, I ponder what might be going on in that undetectable portion. Whether the past, present and future all happen at once - as Einstein believed. I ponder whether, as Rez alluded to, we can ever really know ourselves, whether we have free will or whether we're nowt but organic machines playing out our evolutionary programming. I ponder too much to be honest. But it's fun as it broadens our sense of what things might be. The danger is in reaching any concrete conclusions. |
i think about the butterfly effect a lot and not just cause ashton kutcher is my dawg
like i think of what if in 2nd grade i woulda went on a field trip that i didnt go on. and what if i woulda met a bunch of kids who i dont even know. and what if the douches i disliked through school were actually my friends instead. and what it i would grown up hangin out with them and there was a hott chick there whos virginity i took in high school and then we dated and won prom king and queen. think about chance too. i guess a lot of military guys question it, like someone died but i survived just cause he was 2 steps in front of me. |
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This blows my mind...so much so I bought it last year, and have to read each chapter, twice, once to myself and once aloud (to ensure I am not mentally challenged) |
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My first real, pure, intimate encounter with human death really blew my mind.
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