Stopping Reflection...

I have often wondered whether I would be much better off if I didn't reflect so much. There are people who seem to reflect very shallowly, or better yet, in a very goal-oriented focused way, and they seem to be generally very happy and very very productive. They have built up and unquestionably gone along with structures of reflection that avoid asking dangerous questions.

I don't have this...perhaps intrinsically. I am currently SET in being at this job. It is stressing me out though and at times I am most stressed out and frustrated I get reflective and when I get reflective I try really hard to not reflect and face the facts of the matter, that I might be better off without the job, with quitting. The fact I am avoiding considering and reflecting on whether that might be true (this is totally analgous to not wanting to reflect on the possibility and truths around whether christianity exists), is apparent to me. Others, I bet, never are granted the insight they are STOPPING themselves or manipulating their reflection....tricking them into only seeing the positives or only having the positives as options to see...

ughhh...

I gave myself years to reflect though and really don't have a lot to show for it...years to consider the truth, whatever it may be...this isn't the answer (I don't think).

The Forms, The Falsity - Why Ancient Philosophy Matters

You can start out arguing against Plato and unbeknowst to you end up arguing against most of the values that all of western civilization are based on. The Forms do not exist and never have, except in human language.

Golden Era of Humanity

Perhaps the golden era of humanity will be the moment in history between the discovery of the secrets to our genetic code and material existence, which will bring on a cure for cancer and other diseases, and the moment it dawns on all of humanity that there is no going back from this and they are stuck with facing the deep existential angst that comes with the Truth. Realizing that everything is “predestined.”

The Question That Separates Most Beliefs

There is a key perspective change that separates hundreds of belief. It is who you trust and how much you trust. Do you trust the opinion of a great thinker that you know has thought about it all a lot more than you? When do you not trust them? If that was always the case there would be no new thoughts.

Ya, I liked that band before they got popular...

Have I said this? Yes, but I didn't mean to imply causation.

When it comes to movies and books...rather film and literature, I feel justified with the causal connection, but really I feel justified never beginning to like it--never having liked it. Why? Because these deal with content. They take you along a conscious journey, where you are to identify with your beliefs, thoughts, and your "philosophy." You are asked to buy into it. To accept it. To be content with it. To find it.."ahh, so true." And I never want to say that, feel that, think that about anything that the majority...the massess...the herd also believe.

But music. Music is different. Music gets at something that is beneath consciousness. Beneath that which separates those who are great, who are revolutionary, who extend culture, who enrich life, and provide the only antidote to death...to those who are content, happy, unreflective and instead enclosed, chained, jailed by their thoughts. By their need to be average, common, OK.

Music reaches something we all still have access to, since it doesn't appeal to us as thought, it appeals to us as animals. As the type of thing who want to dance and want to jump. To that underlying reality that we can tap in to. Where the thoughts and the goals, the for and the against, are fighting and fucking...where being indifferent and not causing trouble, where being afraid and being peaceful, is to be cowardly and disgusting.