I was thinking just the other day about people yet again… About how we are all sane and insane at the same time… And again realized that there’s no such thing as the truth. If the society chose to share some truths, and maybe even punish people when they don’t share the same truths, doesn’t mean the society’s truth is the real deal. Nobody has the real deal. My truth is again just as good as yours. If you meet someone you get along with, it’s mostly because you two, three or whatever, share parts of the same perception, logics and, more or less, speak the same language. Like when an accountant meets another accountant, or when a lawyer meets another lawyer, or when you simply meet someone who shares your views on life, or maybe your feelings, your emotions?
Yeah well… Thing is there is no thing. Someone can go mad in a matter of seconds. That’s what we deal with here, on earth. Someone can turn from the one you used to know to someone almost completely different. And that doesn’t mean they’re wrong, it doesn’t even matter that their brain is producing some particular chemicals in a bigger or smaller dose and so on. They’ll never be wrong. Because it’s their truth. For them it is the truth. We may consider it bad, but hey… We have our truths too… If our truths are the same as the society’s truths, does that make us better, more appropriate, more great? It just surprises me that there are so many people who think they know the universal truth… Nobody knows what’s in another person’s body and mind. Not even if they tell us what’s on their mind. Sometimes even they might not know, because the brain is not something you control… At least I don’t think the regular person can control it. It can be educated and trained, but completely controling it is pretty much impossible for a person with low abilities and knowledge I think.
I’m also gonna try for just a week to be nothing but patience and kindness, even if it’ll hurt me to do so. I want to see how people react to smiles and kindness no matter what they say… My bet is they’re gonna try and take advantage of me. Because that’s what we do. When we can take we take. When we can’t take we mostly get angry and try to make up a way to take or give up and maybe cry too. I can’t help but wonder though if I’ll be able to be kindness itself. After all it’s just a week. No mean jokes, no fighting, no high tones (althought I don’t do that much either, so I’ll mostly have to cut on the mean jokes and cynical aproach). It’s also sometimes very easy to be unkind and very hard to be kind, just as it is easy to be a pessimist, sit on the chair and say everything’s wrong and it will all go bad, and hard to get off yer bum and try to change bad into good, or at least into something less bad. Pain is a constant, it’s only up to you how you see and take it.
Hope this made some sense. I will be back at some point with a test on a picture.
makes perfect sense, that’s a good experiment. Let me know how that goes, I’m sure you will be tested. That is an interesting thought, that everyone is right in their own way, but does that mean that I shouldn’t do anything to make sure your truth doesn’t come true, like osama bin laden?
Of course not. I was just making some observations, for peeps to take and understand as they please. The subject is too large, and I can’t say I’ve read much. I’m just jotting stuff down.
And regarding your comment… Maybe it’s a case of “the greater good”. But in their mind, they’re all right and everybody has a truth… It’s up to them and people around them if the truth goes on a larger scale or not. The subject is far too big.
Also… If my truth hurts you, you have all the rights to fight. And it eventually comes down to yet another simple law of “only the strong survive”.
Oh and one last thing, as I’ve now edited this comment a thousand times… I’m writing this kind of things because I’m trying to understand people better. It’s interesting to think that technically speaking we all come into this world without being vicious and that vicious characteristics develop because of the people around us and the world we live in. There’s sooooo much to talk about on this… It just doesn’t cease to amaze me how there’s no stability around me and no such thing as forever… Some things may indeed last for tens of years, but most likely nobody will stay the same until you die… Maybe not even you…
And so many other things. And it’s also good that the society has laws, otherwise everything would’ve been chaos.
Sorry. I just went with the flow. :-/
hmm…There are a lot of interesting concepts at play in this blog post. If you don’t mind I (body-mind) wanted to try and maybe post some ideas to help out the thought process.
When you say that no ones truth is the universal truth, from the body-minds point of view this may be so. Individual truth is only a fraction of the whole so no matter what the individual believes, conceptually, intellectually its not a fact that it is either true or false, it merely is. It is only second hand information that has been ingrained in the body from other sources. We cannot have something that we already are (Truth) yet we cannot remember it because once you know it you will never forget it. This is where the concept of liberation comes from.
I agree though, all individual truth is a fraction of the whole although I am also aware that even saying that is a fraction, and thus an illusion of the whole itself.
I think what we are searching for is an end to the inner war within the body-mind by searching for other states that bring the body pleasure (emotion), but pleasure is only a gap between pain. Absolute Truth doesn’t come from duality where there is an extreme left or right, but just Is.
It isn’t even the fact that you are the doer of thought, the individual would like to believe so but it just isn’t, nor is it even true to say that you were ever an individual to begin with.
Why just make it a week long experiment?
I think you should extend it for as long as you can.
Why not? It would make the world a much better place if everyone did, I believe.
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@ liberatedself – Excellent and beautifully said. Thank you for sharing those thoughts. They brought light.
@ Otto Mann – That would be the goal, I suppose, for a person which would perhaps be considered to be good, whatever good might be, however I am not sure I want to be good in that way just yet. But I’ve just started this and will share some first thoughts on it later on tonight.