Monthly Archive for November, 2010
While twisting myself in the odd yoga shapes the morning I thought, this is nuts! No normal animal on the planet would do this. In fact, no other animal can be found doing most of the things our species does. Working, resting, and engaging in the basic biological functions is all that we have in common with other species. And we even go out of our way to embellishing those aspects. Just consider the fancy bathrooms we have (photo below).
The common view is to see all this as being what makes us unique, special, superior, advanced… “higher beings” no less. Looking at this from a symptoms point of view helps me avoid such a “pat myself on the back” biases. Continue reading ‘The Nutty Things We Do’
It this weirdly ugly or awesomely beautiful?
My mind’s eye has now thoroughly switched over to a symptom’s point of view. I almost feel I should capitalize the words, or perhaps write it like this: symptom’s-point-of-view. What is so special about it? On the surface, nothing I suppose. Deeper down is another story.
The symptom’s-point-of-view is really about how I make judgments in the world I experience. As I see it, the normal way of judging the world simply mirrors the needs and fears of the person judging. Of course this all occurs sub cognitively. People aren’t generally self conscious when they pass judgment on the world out there. For example, if I’m afraid of snakes, I’m more likely to judge snaky things as weird, ugly, bad, or even (on a positive note) awesome and beautiful! Continue reading ‘A Symptom’s Point Of View’
There is more to fear than meets the eye. We often associate the symptoms of fear (the reactions fear initiates) as the fear itself. This can evokes mental images of fear as a screaming and fleeing experience.
As I see it, this is a reaction to feeling fear, not fear itself. The other most common reaction to feeling fear is the opposite of fleeing; it is attack and anger. Continue reading ‘Fear Is The Bottom Line’
I am a bit amused by how frustrated people are with Obama. It is a classic example of how one’s expectations are the seeds of one’s disappointments. It also shows people’s depth of maturity.
Maturity, as I see it, is simply how gracefully I can accept a reality that doesn’t match my expectations. Children get their hopes up for this or that, and when life goes the other way they crash – lack of maturity(1). This is what we expect from children. But adults? This shows how little difference there is between children and adults – we’re just big children struggling to ‘look adult’. Continue reading ‘Change we can believe in?’
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