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July
5, 2002
©
2002: JAN COX
Regardless
of what is proposed through the institutions of psychiatry, philosophy,
and
religion: people who feel aggrieved by life will always feel so,
and
nothing can be done in their thinking to change it
since
the feeling comes not from the mind.
There
are a couple of things ordinary mind does not directly deal with:
one
is that no one knows what the point is (if there be one) of life,
and
the other is that no one knows why they feel the way they do about
life,
and
in both instances, no man knowing -- all men conjecture --
which is one thing,
but
then forgetting what they have done turns it into a whole other thing.
To
be firmly in the camp of the civilized is to feel to some degree, aggrieved
by life,
(at least by
your particular circumstances therein),
indeed
any who do not sufficiently feel so populate, in civilized realms,
the
criminal class: people who do not take the rules of society seriously
because
they do not adequately feel that simply being alive is serious.
All
of this has always, and continues to, play itself out nicely
(or
at least as you see it play itself
out), and gets no further instant comment;
the
focus herein is on individual men’s interest in and efforts to
alter
their personal feelings of aggrievance in being alive;
mind,
doing its rightful duty, says there must be a reason you feel this way;
something
has been done or said to you that is the cause of your aggrieved feeling;
something
that happened between you and some other human(s)
has
colored and spoiled your relationship to life, and thus with yourself.
Normal
thought, doing all it can, looks for culprits and causes:
“Who
and what events have made me feel opposed, injured, annoyed
just
in being here and being alive?” -- and expects to find same –
but
when it does not -- it conjures them up; it says: “This could
be
the cause” –
and
in its unique domain: anything it can think of can seem to it as possible,
or
it would not have been able to think of it to begin with.
Every
person’s thoughts can easily weave scenarios wherein
certain
things were said and actions taken which clearly could have been
the cause of the person now feeling a particular way about themselves,
and about life itself;
a
feeling that perhaps, by others’ judgment is overly angry or self pitying,
but
one understandable -- at least by you -- given
your individual circumstances.
Just
because this does not change the feeling or answer any question
does
not stop man’s involvement therein:
a
guessing game is all they have.......well, that and seeing what is going
on.......
.......which
ordinary mind is in no manner fashioned to do -- so:
conjecture
it is -- along with forgetting that it is all conjecture
--
-- combined with ignoring its impotence.
Badgers
are born badgers; nothing that anyone can do will ever change that --
--
poor old badgers.
Canaries
are born canaries and nothing can be done that will ever change that --
--
poor old canaries.
- - -
The
other larger, more brilliant facet that mind does not directly confront
is
the question it has brought with it:
“What
is the purpose of life and of me being here anyway?” –
not
only is no one able to answer this -- no one is able to accept
the fact,
and
everyone offers conjecture -- lets it jell institutionally --
then
accepts back their collective conjectures as facts, forgetting their origins.
To
be minimally normal and civilized is to give this question scant conscious
attention, but those who consider themselves true-thinkers, and
spiritually-aware
find
it to be a most captivating subject (as momentarily
does every person –
when
they deem their own dick unjustly caught in the wringer of life);
philosophers,
psychologists, sociologists, biologists, mystics, social critics,
political
analysts, et al all believe in one way or the other, that if the purpose-of-life
could but be ascertained, the answer to all of the puzzlers regarding man’s
behavior, thinking processes and feelings about life and himself
will become clear,
and
to that end -- they have guessed and made up stories to suit their
conjectures.
Any
religious person worthy the title knows the purpose of life,
and
also any up to date professional in any of the social sciences
perceives
present research to be to the point that quite valid presumptions there
about can be reasonably made.
Whether
or not you think in these specific terms:
the
more you seem to naturally feel aggrieved by being alive,
the
greater your susceptibility to: “What
is the purpose of life? -- O, I know.”
Just
because men saying that they know-the-purpose changes nothing in
them,
and
answers no questions -- does not deter them.
Before
they know
what is going on (and
can only conjecture)
those
who believe they want
to know
uncritically
feel sure that knowing involves -- "knowing" ---
but they be wrong.
In
the BigGame
-- knowing is nothing;
that
is what your years in the minor leagues are for: knowing, knowing, knowing.
The
rare mind that ever realizes what is really going on does not do so by
knowing-something
-- but by -- facing
something;
J
Disclaimer:
The use above of the word, “brave” is an act of verbal desperation.