Monday, June 28, 2010

Melodramatic Fix (and stuff)

A lot of people who have hurt others and then express remorse about it often claim that they don't know why they did what they did. A smaller percentage will claim they have some understanding, but when you ask them to explain you almost always get some sort of analytical explanation usually involving confusing childhood experiences and a lack of responsible adult coping mechanisms.
But the real reason that people hurt each other is so simple that it has been understood and written about for as long as men have been writing, and represented in human rituals and lore before that.
And at the same time the real reason is also so complex that no amount of analysis (scientific, theological, philosophical, or otherwise) will ever correctly or even usefully be able to express it.
At best, words can only represent it as a concept – a concept that must be experienced first hand before it can be understood.
Words will never be able to express it, which is why no solution (religious, political, or scientific) will ever be able to stop us from hurting each other as long as the solution involves the intervention of human language (and by human language I include mathematics and science). In fact, it is our attempt to make language work toward solving our problems that allows the violence and hatred to spawn and prosper in this world, by creating the illusion of helping while doing nothing to help in actuality (letting the problem get worse). I wont say what the problem is, because if you don't already know then reading about it isn't going to help.
I told someone in a conversation just today that all my questions in life have been answered and I no longer want anything from life. But that does not mean that I think I have all the answers; I know I don't. All i have is a lack of any more questions. All of my questions have been answered, but I have no answers for anyone else, except perhaps to tell them that they must find their own answers for themselves.
I have said, if someone tells you they have a solution to all your problems, run away! „If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him.” No other person or persons can tell you what you need to know. The solution to all your problems is built into you. In fact, most people create their own problems by running away in terror of the very thing that provides salvation. And such people seek balance and harmony (i. e. peace) through artificial mechanisms (i. e. addictions) one of which is sold every day on our Tvs. It is called drama, and it is just another substitute for real life like all other addictions. We try to replace our own natural emotional responses to life with dramatically induced and intensified substitutes. The result is of course a completely altered sense of reality that has very little to do with life and actively prevents us from ever being able to recognize who we really are. We feel lost and alone inside, and the more we try to compensate (with more drama, or melodrama) the worse we get.

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