(Originally posted on Sunday, May 03, 2009)
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philosophy of joel
Heres something cool I wrote for some high-school science class. My Christian science teacher, (no not an oxymoron) but a contridiction, gave me a D for borrowing without sites. Which I didn’t do! I picked all this up here and there, there wasn’t a single source to credit.The real joke is that I turned in the same paper to creative writing and got an A.
There where more pages, somehow lost over time, so I wrapped it up by memory but here it is: a 10th graders bleek view of existence.enjoy!
PHILOSIPHY of JOEL
Decisions; Ones we make, and the ones that others do that effect us, are the fabric of intelligent consciousness. They determine where we end up, how we get there, and are motivated by our emotions and reasoning. Reasoning is our humanly pathetic attempt at logic and explanation. Emotions are instinctual and exist only in our brain. You could say logic, education, or intelligence is mans attempt to label and understand the exterior reality, when all we really sense and experience is in the mind (interior). We exist in two plains; as a physical mammalian earthly animal, and inside our brains as entities encased in a complex evolving computer. This second plain allows us to experience the first with auxiliary sensory organs, and feelings as responding to the nature of the experience.
Emotions are not as complex as our minds make them out to be. They derived from the evolutionary drive for survival, the two basic instincts: love and fear.
Love is our need to mate, to matter to one another, and to be a contribution to future of our species; to add to the big picture. It is the youngest of the two prime emotions, since fear is all that is required, and procreation simply happened if chance and carefully successful survival is allowed.
I believe love evolved from our developed intelligence, and the ability to understand gave the feelings and needs to be understood.
‘If you and I are so smart, then why doesn’t anyone have a clue ( and is too scared to find one) about the death of consciousness within the dying process.
This is one explanation to why we humans feel the need to be understood and needed, because we are smart; and in the back of our minds we know that every single thing that makes us ‘individuals’, our ‘personality’ disappears in death. We live and we love, but then… We die!, and we try and try to come up with some magical fantastic answer, that doesn’t face the inevitability of the end of your existence. That our body is the computer, and there is no continuation after its destruction.
ACCEPT IT, learn from it and move on until you are destroyed by it.
Maybe if we quit lying to ourselves; one day humanity may conquer certain things that presently are unbeatable, unavoidable, and unexplainable to God fearing, after-life believing ‘mystics’.
lifender
