The stories we create in this biologically compelled quest are determined by our behavior in life. The quest can be an obsession or a casual interest, it can also be spellbinding and romantic or competitive and hostile and dangerous, depressing or joy-filled, dramatic or dull, intellectual or numbing, or satisfying or disappointing.
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If not understood and then accepted as a biologic drive early in the quest, the search more often results in a grand waste of time. We humans are good at denying to ourselves and to others that the search has been unsatisfactorily futile - if a confident truthful answer is the goal.
Because those who search in the ancient assumptions of philosophers, whose body of knowledge was a small fragment of modern knowledge, the search is a confusing and emotional ride through humanity’s view of itself; ignorant, grandiose, human-centric.
It is common among the brain strong, the intellectuals, to experience an epiphany of the great question, often too late, in the dying years. To hide their shame, or hide their dementia, they may keep the answer silent.
But if you are near one of these intellects, you may one day hear them laugh out loud for seemingly no reason. Then perhaps occasionally giggle for a few days. Then remorse sets-in for what they could have done with their lives, had they gained this realization in their lives, then long silence.
[ I apologize for Google's' inconsistency between several platforms over the years and documents. I get so many errors, I don't see them in the help forums. Formatting is all screwed up and likely because the time is a consideration because I'm still not sure you are all worth this effort.]
If not understood and then accepted as a biologic drive early in the quest, the search more often results in a grand waste of time. We humans are good at denying to ourselves and to others that the search has been unsatisfactorily futile - if a confident truthful answer is the goal.
Because those who search in the ancient assumptions of philosophers, whose body of knowledge was a small fragment of modern knowledge, the search is a confusing and emotional ride through humanity’s view of itself; ignorant, grandiose, human-centric.
It is common among the brain strong, the intellectuals, to experience an epiphany of the great question, often too late, in the dying years. To hide their shame, or hide their dementia, they may keep the answer silent.
But if you are near one of these intellects, you may one day hear them laugh out loud for seemingly no reason. Then perhaps occasionally giggle for a few days. Then remorse sets-in for what they could have done with their lives, had they gained this realization in their lives, then long silence.
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| 2015, My old friend: John. Months from death of esophageal cancer from cigarette smoking. |
John never sought the tail that is the question behind the purpose and meaning of life. He avoided it all of his life. He had concluded as a young man that those seeking the answer were walking a futile path, that there was not an answer and so no one should seek it out. He selfishly took care of himself. He fed the id with drugs and great tasting food and fun living in every minute that he was alive. He contributed very little to others. He left no legacy. He will be soon forgotten. In the several months before I took this image of him, he had realized there was an answer and he conceptualized that answer very late in his life and he shared that epiphany with no one. He did not share it because it was a heavy emotional disappointment about himself. It depressed him greatly and his bodies immunity lost the battle with homeostasis (his organs systemic/interconnected proper functions). In this image he is only 4 months from death. He does not know that esophageal cancer is creeping in to the rest of his body. He found out the answer but he did not laugh because seeking the answer was never his goal. He had a great deal of that long silence in those last months.
We humans carry a burden that is an emotional effect of the biologic of fulfilling a purpose in the self-imposed biography that is our life. Too often we do not have a clue to what that purpose really is. We often make this quest for this purpose a search for meaning. As if purpose and meaning are concepts that are synonymous. As we perceive that discovering either leads us to the feeling of the other.
But, these concepts of purpose and meaning are very distinct unless you chose to connect the two by the ethereal or the spiritual.But these later alternatives can not bring us much of anything useful in the physical world. Where in the big picture of our history on the planet, needs must be met for the survival of the species.
There is a strong meaning in this that your nagging consciousness may feel the need to assign to your actions in life - your purposeful actions. Our primal genetic traits are essential and very strong and they result in our best bet at continued survival as an entire species. Follow the feeling they provide, and accept the traits as the biologic drive to fulfill your primary purpose and realize that: You should contribute to the survival of your species.
The numbers of ways that any of us can accomplish this is limited only to the depth of our imaginations and our access to all or any of the mass available to us in all of nature. We just commit our purposeful actions in moving that mass with energy.
We can all use energy that is free and all around us. We borrow or take the energy of others to make these necessary motions. We use that energy to move mass and to manipulate nature. We exploit all that is around us and all of the other beings in our environment.
continued - That Conversation & Legacy page 11
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