What the bleep?
Just watched "What the Bleep Do We Really Know" or something like that with Ryan and Halie. It is a very enlightening and thought provoking movie. I actually found them saying a few of the things I already believe. All these scientists or whatever they were had different things to say, but all agreed that religion as it exists today is obselete, and probably does more harm than it does good. But any change would require re-working the way our whole human social structure is in our modern day, a result from thousands of years of evolving human thought. Also, watching this and thinking about it has helped me greatly with crossing over a certain mental barrier of understanding. For a while now, I have arrogantly assumed that there are the more "intelligent" people of this world, that is to say those who are more adept at learning in a scholarly envioroment, and there are the "sheep" of this world. This was very presemptious of me. I assumed that because people think differently than me, and in my eyes understand or see less than I do beyond the "superficial world," they were inferior or somehow lower. This is untrue, and I can't think of a stronger word than presumptious, but there should be one. I am not saying it is arrogant of me because "the universe is so huge and we are so small, blah blah blah," I am saying it because I simply realized that everybody has to deal with the same evolved brain. I mean, though experiences and our reactions to them may dictate the wiring of our brain and therefore our responses to foreseen or unforeseen stimuli, not one of us has the ability to control the wiring of our brain. I just happen to be lucky enough to have realized and seen that this wiring of our brain goes on and controls our lives without us realizing. People go through life unable to explain their moods and their angry reactions or their depression or whatever it is happening to them. I found the statement that everything we do is dictated by addiction to be very intellectually appealing. I believe it is actually probably true. Even love. We don't "love" the person so to say, we love the emotional response generated whenever we are with that person, and we are addicted to it. That's why if something extreme happens, it can change within a week or two, which techinically "Love" should not be able to do. With this in mind one realizes that all habits are addictions. This leads me to realize that I am addicted to laziness. Being addicted to laziness is a Catch 22, and seems it is the easiest thing to get addicted to. If you think about it, lazy people generally have addictive personalites: couch potatoes, stoners, etc. Laziness is the easiest addiction, and you never have the motivation to break it for obvious reasons. I'm glad I watched and thought about this, becuase even though nothing in my physical enviroment changed, I feel more free as a person. This is fascinating in itself, how your reality is basically all a product of your brain. People all produce from the same situations different equations, and now that I know this I am able to understand people who are different from me much better. I am glad, becuase it has lifted the load of cynicism from my shoulders somewhat. I no longer have as much of a reason or need to be cynical towards the world, and feel content.