I find the idea of substance as form and matter very interesting (form being actualized potential, matter being potential form). Even further, I find the idea of potential, itself, interesting. Clay does not have the potential to be a live cat, so a live cat could never be clay. But are we not also the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reality’
Are All Opinions Equally Valid?
Posted in Life, tagged conditioned existence, illusion vs. reality, philosophy, reality on April 16, 2012 |
These days, maybe because of the influence of the PC movement, many people have the belief that everyone’s ideas and opinions are on equal footing and have equal validity. I simply do not think this is true. In fact, if pressed, most people who have the belief that all opinions are equal would have to [...]
The Truth is On My Side
Posted in Life, tagged fear, freedom, happiness, reality, truth on March 29, 2012 |
The beautiful thing about reality and truth is that once a person summons the courage to open his or her mind to reality, and rescind his ego’s all-access pass, and sees desire and self-regard not as the bringer of happiness, but as the exact cause of suffering, then there is absolutely nothing ‘the system’ can [...]
One of the things I find myself struggling with is the fact that you can’t always combat violence with passivity. One of the reasons for this is the obvious fact that violence can end the life of the passive, who therefore no longer has the opportunity to defend or express his position and ideas. And [...]
Freedom Fighter
Posted in Life, tagged reality, society, truth on October 22, 2011 |
The tools that people use against people like me are many, and they are often subtle and complex. They make you feel that you are wrong, stupid, arrogant, that you don’t get it. By the means of their conditioning—that they do not understand the way things really are—they are unable to really love, and so [...]
Fear of Being Alone
Posted in Life, tagged conditioned existence, illusion vs. reality, love, philosophy, reality, truth on August 18, 2011 |
Though deep down it is that which we fear most, that which is contrary to everything we truly are, it never ceases to amaze me just how much effort and energy people expend to be alone. Though we go through our lives blindly reaching out for connection, for solace, safety, understanding, in the end we [...]
I am visited again by the recurring idea that I am living in a conditioned, structured, perhaps or perhaps not arbitrary, or at least particular, reality; and that this reality around me, this particular system of ideas, of the way things are, is not one into which I fit very well. I do not consider [...]
The Importance of Motivation
Posted in Life, tagged control, illusion vs. reality, life, reality, responsibility on May 13, 2011 |
The importance of motivation—it is interesting to me the difference between doing what is right and good out of fear of punishment or hope of reward—or some other selfish motive—and, on the other hand, doing what is right and good because it is right and good. Now, those who fall into the former category are [...]
