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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