Sep 12th, 2003, 09:11 PM
Do what you like. I forget what i said, let me reread and ill try to fit it up style mcgee.
OKay, I'll try to take it from some exampliary mc mary's:
Buddha. You know him. All peaceful, all serene, against suffering and bad shit in general. He became the buddha because he "Meditated under a tree" for a logn time supposively, but the reason he did this was because:
He was born into a rich noble family, never had to see the indignities of life. Not even once. THen one day he took a stroll through the country, he saw dead people, hungry people, poor people.. it came as a shock. He never knew shit like that went on, or at least not to that extent, that is what inspired him.
So in a way, he became the person he was BECAUSE he saw the suffering, having never seen it he would never of had the inspiration to go chill out under a tree.
The same way could work for jesus christ.
As to the topic of working towards perfection, and no self-defeating actions... I find that to be contrary to the way things go. In fact, most people seem to act in their own interests regardless, and things turn out the other way often times.
Quantam mechanics is the idea that there are two COMPLETELY opposite particals, when one moves left the other moves right, when one goes up the other goes down, but when they move towards eachother they both come together, same when they move away. They are linked, they act without reaction to eachother. It's the bell theorem, if you sent a partical a billion miles away and left the other here, and reversed the polarity on the one here, both of them would have reversed polarity, at the same time, even though the other is a smillion miles away, but the end purpose of the particals is to sadly destroy eachother.
How is this working towards becoming bigger or better in anyway, perfection? It's self-defeating in it's own apparent nature.
Evolution is a result of friction between the enviroment and a species. Wooly mammoths, and even us, came at a result of horrible circumstances, the means to adjust were developed by these circumstances. In this instance, the fact that we evolved BECAUSE the situation was so horrible means one thing. HARD CIRCUMSTANCE=EVOLVE. A=B. You can't have Evolution without something to propel it.
Without Imperfection there is no perfection to work towards, thusly the idea of PERFECTION becomes relative, with evolution thrown into the mix it beccomes relative to the circumstance. As said before, US as a SINGLE INDIVIDUAL is not the only person going around interacting and changing ideals and ideas, so people and things change. Our enviroments change, often as a result of our own changes.
Also, status' of perfection with us seems to be conceptual, right now we are discussing because we believe each of us is right, while you and i are interacting, others are learning. Perhaps getting ideas of their own, perhaps ready to post some of their own. The form of the conversation could change by anothers opinion, you understand? You could play a guitar, i could play bass, someone else can sing, and another can play drums and it will make music. THe music would began to ebb and flow differently when each plays, if the others are as good or better, the music wll get better, if they are worse, the music will decline. But while it may decline, the one who has less skll may learn to become better, so the next time you play the music will be better, all according to different ideals and the way things flow. Certain changes working towards perfection, but the status of perfection will always be changing.
I dunno, Im not good at explaining shit i guess, ill try later when it's not 120 degrees outside.
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