WHAT'S THE POINT...?
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I look around me and see things that matter to me at this point in time. I recall other things that are away from my sight and I think...what's the point of these things, whatever they are.

All those old photographs and pictures, why do I keep them? I rarely look at them and so, what is the point of keeping them? None that I can think of but perhaps, nostalgia? That's a point given the correct circumstances. Good for a small while; no long-term benefits for survival,  so what's the point?

That goes for just about everything. What is the point of keeping things that are only memories?  That's all they are and the memories are still there in our heads, whatever material artifacts there might be of their existence.

I never wear my suits now. What is the point of keeping them? I'll never wear them again. They have no survival purpose.

I'll never use many of the things I have, what's the point of keeping them?

Am I a squirrel that needs to collect for a winter? No, so why do I keep these things? Sentimentality? Maybe a few but that's not a point (reality in the present tense).

However, if you need these things, for some reason, then keep them, otherwise give  them away to another squirrel, or just get rid of them. 'Someone's junk is someone else's treasure', maybe.

Human animals are collectors. They don't have a reason to collect them, they just do. It's part of a survival mechanism because it locates them as to where they are at any given moment in time, circumstance and so forth. It a 'comfort' thing.

When did I ever listen to but a few of my tapes (I have lots of them)? Why do I have a collection of them I will probably never listen to again? There is no answer other than that I collect them for some spurious reason that will never come to me if I want to progeress in this life that I have been given without my consent.

There is no point to our existence, whatever you might believe. Now there is a concept! There 'is' (positive statement) 'no' (negative statement). Where does that leave us? I leave that for you to ponder.

We are here and that is it. We survive or don't survive on our own merits, nothing else, full stop.

We need desperately to clear out our minds full of junk as well as our closets. Thereby we can go forward and live our present, with memories of the past (with a few reminders, perhaps) and go towards the future, a risk-taking event that will determine that future. So be it.

Many of the things we collect only remind of us of past differences with the things we have come into contact with. They have no relevance to that which is present except, perhaps, their remembrance).

 The present is that which confronts us at this instant in time. We live on/in a continuum of existence. The past is only what confronts us in the present. The future is pure conjecture...conjecture, extrapolation from the past which may or may not be relevant to a future.

Life (however defined) is adaptation (which may lead to an evolution), nothing else. Belief is something which we believed in, in the past. It may or may not have relevance in/to the future, so what's the point?

Without living in the present, we have no past or future. The problem is whether we are living in a fantasy world that is static and unchanging, or whether we build any future on the experiences of the present (which will become our past) and adapting towards a future for our personal survival.

Personal survival may be a 'selfish' thing but without that, how can we hope to help others, if that is our wish?

However, 'Selfish' is a word. It deserves nothing but a definition of itself. It has no 'right' or 'wrong' attached to it; it is a word and nothing else.

Why, I have always asked, should there be a 'purpose'? What's the point of asking? We are here and we do what we have to do because that's how we came to be. Nothing else matters because there is no point to all this.

Beliefs are akin to smoking a particular plant. For whatever 'reason' those plants were smoked (or 'magic' mushrooms as were used by Shamans) they are only an experiment. Experiment leads to a 'death' or something else. Whatever that 'something else' is, it can be a survival thing or not. Nothing is an end in itself. The nature of the individual (plant or animal or rock) is purely a result of an electro-chemical reaction. God-given or not, the belief does not matter.

Nature, as we call it, does not produce anything that will harm itself. Why should it? Nature works in what we call symbiosis. Nature does not naturally produce a parasite. Parasites are the result of differing terrain and the symbiotic nature of nature will resolve the problem.

Pathogens are the result of faulty terrain. Nature itself does not produce pathogens. Healthy people, for example do not get 'sick'. They maintain their terrain in as near a balance as possible. The body adapts to that. If the terrain is getting destroyed or impaired, then the organism gets 'sick'. The body will always try to repair itself. This repair can be very difficult or not. Difficult or more difficult repair results in symptoms for the organism. These symptoms are the repair process, they are not the dis-ease. Stifling these symptoms is killing the cure! As a simple example, a sore throat is part of a healing process, not something one should try to alter, despite the non-comfort. There are natural remedies for relief which do not alter the healing process. Anything less than natural will not work in the long run.


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