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Re: On Being Homesick
« on: July 17, 2014, 02:06:56 pm »
I plan to check in on an almost daily basis.  My posts and responses might be more calculated as I will be uploading and downloading via the flashdrive, then responding at my leisure.

Actually, Holden, it seems that you may be the only one in this orbit ... besides Trachycarpus ... and I wouldn't compare myself to a sun, but more like one of those spiraling things ... a black hole? ...  a death spiral of black holes ...

You see, the way I've been looking at this epidemic of defeatist worldviews spiraling around our life-world is this:  rather than experiencing despair about the conclusions we've come to, we can rest easy.  I mean, we have considered the unthinkable, that we would have been better off never having been, in which case "we" wouldn't care about the unpleasant nature of being.  Now that we have entertained this possibility and survived, it's pretty much down hill from here on out. 

Since we are well aware that this unpleasantness is hard-wired into living experience, we won't be hoodwinked by those who are selling cures and parading around as though they have secured the solution ... or "salvation" ...

Rather than think "if only I had such-and-such ..." I would be satiated, we can recognize that we are not designed for inner peace, and paradoxically we might attain more inner peace, even if just a minimal amount, by giving up hope of ever attaining it.

So, yes, I will continue to try to remain somewhat coherent as I do have a healthy fear of slipping into the downward spiral of drunkenness.  In the meantime, I notice many other species of animal on this planet take to hiding and hibernating, so, if I am so inclined, then I suppose Nature is anti-social.  Even though we are "social creatures" who communicate with our kind, once one has had one's fill of society and doesn't want to bother with restraining one's own unpleasant nature, we ought to encourage one another to isolate and just be ourselves.
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