Thursday, January 30, 2014

The flow of time, observations & logic

Two years ago, I was listening to the physical complaints of someone dear to me & urged them to go to the hospital because I felt a blood clot was going to kill them. A few days ago I urged someone else dear to me to go to the hospital (I accompanied them) because my Dr told me that they might die of a stroke, within the hour. The simple observations I made in both cases happened to be correct. Both of these people are alive. I am posting this, because individuals save other peoples lives, everyday. Often, the individuals people save, are complete strangers. There is a personal code of ethics which is activated & consistent in these individuals & their acts which is incredibly superior to the superficial & one dimensional 'morality' which is destroying our planet. I am fascinated by the fact that observation, logical thought: its constructive applicability, & mutual respect are common occurrences in situations that could become highly volatile. Our self respect, as an isolated trait of ones character, is taken for granted. Life saving is common. Quite common.. What is not so common is a personal & consistent maturity that is necessary to achieve a sense of self-respect & what obviously follows self-respect is the potential for mutual respect. Who in your life is observant enough to treat you with the respect necessary to save your life? Who deserves your mutual respect? How does one achieve mutual respect? Can you treat strangers with mutual respect? Are we only meant to drive others to self destruction with the banality of our hysteria & our own self-obsession? Is it imperative that we use our narcissistic obsessions to drive others, our species & other species to suicide? Or could there be other uses for our species, such as mutual respect & the consistent application of trial & error, laws & logic? What does it really- mean to treat others with respect? Why is self respect important? How do we treat others, even our 'enemies' when we have self respect? & why does this matter, not only to us, but most importantly to other species & the planet. Why does respect for the planet & other species matter? Why does this matter as to how we utilize our time & energy & who we spend our time with? http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/12/12_12.Aram_Saroyan_Crickets.mp3

Monday, January 27, 2014

If you don't ask someone a question, don't expect an answer. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Question

Tests (rational, within reason, respectful) of trust, maturity, self control, logic & loyalty are extremely important & hard to live up to, most of us fail these tests. Yet consistent success, assures mutual respect is real, valuable, & is able to survive even after dissolution & if one is truly remarkable, until death. Freedom of association: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/pete-seeger-and-nsa Low or poor intelligence is called low or poor intelligence for a reason (NSA?). Or, low or poor intelligence is typically a bad case of missing questions, you could also say, an imposed- prevention of inquisition, the very erasure- of inquisition. It never occurs to us that the majority of information on anything is inaccurate. It never occurs to us that abuse & obsession are not appropriate replacements for the cultivation of hate. Obviously, this type of rot worsens. I am not capable of involving my time & energies with a universal morbidity of hate & nothing will change that. You can write about an ally of mine, but if you claim to have answers for questions you never asked them &/or there are several witnesses to this fact, I'll be asking my ally who they are, not you. I am also not so naive to believe that all the information in the world is true. This is why I ask- others questions- & why I don't abuse others for not- asking them- questions. - More on how questions & answers require decisions: Moment by moment decision making, if one actually- knows- they made a decision, or what a decision actually is-/etc: http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/Users/BNewell/N&SUIDMBBS.pdf It's time to ask ourselves if we know what we are talking about. Go ahead, you can do it "I'm not sure I know what I am talking about. I have to think. I have to think about how I'm thinking." Just say this once & see how it feels. Slip it over the part of your body which encases a brain. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717-be-patient-toward-all-that-is-unsolved-in-your-heart

Sunday, January 26, 2014

"Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to go incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called." * Jean Dubuffet, artist quote on the unpredictable character of art with its own life.