A cascade of thoughts flooded my mind after seeing the movie "Crashh". These thoughts were not necessarily new to me, but they took on a clarity. The clarity may give rise to a sentiment that the thoughts may have some validity. I would like to share them with you. Sharing is inherent among social animals.
1. To live is to contend/put up with/come to terms with the naked and yet rarely confronted/discussed fact that the drive for power and domination is very strong in all social beings. So when you interact with humans, keep that fact/issue in mind, especially with those who are deep down insecure, cowardly, animalistic and untalented. These fucking and fucked-up animals always try to seek balance through acts of compensation.
2. Chance, the perennial element in nature, can be either good (blessing for the religious-minded folks) or bad (just dumb bad luck for being in a wrong place at a wrong time). There's nothing we can do about bad luck except stoically and graciously accepting it as part of life. To be angry, self-righteous, or complaining about bad luck just makes the matter worse.
3. To achieve serenity, one must accept facts and truths at all times. Most life's problems and the bullshit peddled by religions stem from the inability to see or accept facts and truths.
4. If you hurt another person by engaging in falsehoods, you must issue heart-felt apology promptly and earnestly and humbly beg (yes, beg) for forgiveness, then do you have a chance to be forgiven. Very few humans blithely accept injustice foisted upon them. It is said that love /faith moves mountains, but from what I have seen, it is injustice and anger that drives humans into actions. All revolutions are fed by feelings of injustice and deep anger over injustice.
5. Some Greek scholar (Aristotle?) once defined Man is an animal that wants to know. It's not a pretty or complete definition, but good enough to highlight the inquisitiveness inherent in Man. So if you are happy with your state of ignorance, and don't really care for learning and knowledge, I would have to say that you are not quite human yet, and are still a stupid, ignorant, self-contented little primate and deserve all the scorn and contempt other more "knowledgeable" humans exhibit towards you. If you have any sense of self-respect, you must improve your mind/knowledge so no other humans can look down on you. All the empty blather you mouth off about yourself and the world means nothing if you speak from the standpoint of uninformed opinions.
6. You are your own Savior and Redeemer. Other beings can help you, but the salvation and the desire for salvation must come from deep within yourself. A human without will-power is not much a human.
Thus Spoke Wissai
August 11, 2015
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