Tired
Got a lot on my mind. I'll probably post some of it once I get a better grip on it and can formulate the words necessary to describe it. Isn't it funny how some of our most sincere and heaviest thoughts transcend words? I think it's valuable to be able to process and think about them though without the need for words. It's amazing how much we're limited by our vocabulary in spite of all of the advantages it gives us as a species.
Anyway, I've been reconsidering some things I used to take for granted regarding life and some of the opinions I've formed about things. I believe it's always good to reconsider opinions we've formed because, often, if we look deep enough we'll find that they've changed with our expansion of knowledge. As always I consider the meaning behind that simple phrase from "Time" by Pink Floyd, "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be." They were a touch fatalistic, but obviously considered life and its value far more than most humans ever will. Talk about taking something for granted... of course, if you have your faith then you can afford to take life for granted (sometimes) due to the belief that it's not the end (as Gandalf said). For me it's complicated. I do believe in an afterlife, however I also want to understand the purpose of this experience here and now.
I'm just rambling right now, but sometimes it's fun to just spit stuff out. It's easier to reflect because it comes from a pseudo-external source (much like a mirror). Mirrors... that always makes me think of Heinroth's observation that the world, as we perceive it, is only an internal construction of our sensory input. The sensory input, of course, can be triggered without the outside world that we see. Hmm... something that I thought about in middle school, yet it came back to haunt me in college. Life is funny, too funny. It's like one of those jokes from inside your head that makes you chuckle, but nobody knows what you're laughing about...
ME
Anyway, I've been reconsidering some things I used to take for granted regarding life and some of the opinions I've formed about things. I believe it's always good to reconsider opinions we've formed because, often, if we look deep enough we'll find that they've changed with our expansion of knowledge. As always I consider the meaning behind that simple phrase from "Time" by Pink Floyd, "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be." They were a touch fatalistic, but obviously considered life and its value far more than most humans ever will. Talk about taking something for granted... of course, if you have your faith then you can afford to take life for granted (sometimes) due to the belief that it's not the end (as Gandalf said). For me it's complicated. I do believe in an afterlife, however I also want to understand the purpose of this experience here and now.
I'm just rambling right now, but sometimes it's fun to just spit stuff out. It's easier to reflect because it comes from a pseudo-external source (much like a mirror). Mirrors... that always makes me think of Heinroth's observation that the world, as we perceive it, is only an internal construction of our sensory input. The sensory input, of course, can be triggered without the outside world that we see. Hmm... something that I thought about in middle school, yet it came back to haunt me in college. Life is funny, too funny. It's like one of those jokes from inside your head that makes you chuckle, but nobody knows what you're laughing about...
ME