2008-02-20, 15:39
#1
Detta skulle kunna läggas upp under vilken rubrik som helst, men jag tänkte att det passar bäst här.
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A theory of everything – the short version
1. The mind can never know reality's true nature, because it's limited to a certain viewpoint. Reality MUST be neutral, for saying it is anything else requires a viewpoint or consciosness of some sort – which is limited.
2. Therefore, everything in your own mind is true – but a transcription of your definitions to reality must always be false. If you try to define reality from only one certain perspective you will always be wrong – because you're limited.
3. When you define reality, i.e. try to see an ultimate truth outside of your own consciousness, you invite negativity – even further limitation of the mind.
4. You can break free from your personal limitations by admitting that there is no absolute truth, only a personal one.
Note that embracing this theory doesn't mean abandoning anything that currently makes you feel happy and safe. Quite the contrary.
AN ATTEMPT AT A UNIFIED THEORY EXPLAINING EVERYTHING THAT MANKIND HAS EVER KNOWN – a solution to everything (hopefully)
You may find the following words vague and too general, but this is only because it's my hope that anyone who reads this will be able to relate to it and improve their lives. Don't get too defensive, trying to preserve your own opinion. Nothing I will say here will contradict anything you already know, all I want to do is to further expand your unlimited mind:
Like me, you are a human being with a consciousness of your own. You have lived through life obtaining and gathering information, making sense out of the chaos of reality. You have decided (consciously or subconsciously) to follow a set of ideas that makes your reality a logical, safe and happy place to live in. Others may not make you so happy and safe. You may have noticed that, while your set of ideas make perfect sense to yourself, you encounter difficulties and problems as soon as you try to fix the world and share these great truths of yours with your fellow man. Why is this? Which ideas are right, and which are wrong – ultimately? The simple answer to this question is that every idea is right. And wrong. The key to this lies in the realization of the seperation and unification of your own mind with other minds and what we call reality. Let me explain further.
What is reality? Realize that ultimately, an answer to this question can never be reached. Who is going to reach it? There will always be a certain limited viewpoint on 'reality': your mind or other forms of consciousness (otherwise, there is no 'who' in the previous stated question).
Therefore, trusting anything 100% is the death of creativity.
The key to so called enlightenment vs. stagnation of the mind is to have an openness towards everything – to simultaneously view ones surroundings from as many angles as one can.
Consider for a minute what this means.
It means that as soon as you dismiss anything as false, decide something conclusively, trust or view anything as an ultimate truth – your mind stagnates a little. This concerns everything.
Anyone who cross borders with an open mind will grow wisdom.
You might call the attitude I choose to have on life considering these points a kind of optimistic agnosticism: an optimistic outlook on everything, simply because it makes you and everyone around you happier; and agnosticism not just regarding the existence of God, but everything: an agnostic viewpoint is neither cowardly nor chaotic, it's on the contrary liberating because it is the dismissal of any one ultimate truth.
But if one isn't careful, even this viewpoint can bite itself in its paradoxical tail like an ouroboros, leading back to stagnation. How does one avoid it? Try with realizing the following points:
You have the right to create your own unique opinions, interpretations and models of your own reality.
You can do so (and you already do) for your own convenience – for example, it's easier to live if we assume that reality exists, if we use common conventions in communication or if we trust the results of independently reproducible scientific experiments. Empiricism is good because it makes sense out of everything fed into your brain.
These assumptions and tools are however always perceived through the filter of the mind; this is the beauty of life – one can never really find out the true nature of the information fed into your brain. No single ultimate truth can be reached, only a personal one – therefore you are entitled to believe in anything that makes sense to your mind; just remember that everyone around you (assuming they too have consciousness like yours) also make their own unique interpretations and models of their reality. It's easy to make the mistake of viewing ones own opinion as universal, since ones whole universe is nothing but a personal interpretation.
What this means is that every possible thought has meaning potential (with an open mind, there's no thought that can't enrich you), truth potential (you create your own truth) and have potential to be connected (if you can't see any other connection, the ultimate one is that everything you perceive is in your mind). Explore all possibilities.
Never belittle yourself. Comparing minds is useless. You are your universe.
Everything in the mind is true. Everything outside of the mind is false. This means that everything can be viewed as simultaneously true and false. There's no contradiction here.
The only true perfection is imperfection. In contrast to our common model of perfection as a stagnated state of purity and lack of chaos, imperfection has the potential of constant and endless improvement.
Learn the beauty of confusion, of doubt, of undecidedness. These things contain every possibility simultaneously; mind-blowing infinity.
There is no 'right'. There is no 'wrong'. There is no 'actually'.
I hope you – like me – will find that this point of view kills all the noise in your brain, erasing negativity (which can be defined as entrapment and restriction of the mind: what we daily call fear, anger, depression, evil etc.). This is extremely important. Whenever you view something as an ultimate, unchangeable truth outside of your own consciousness, you invite negativity and stagnation to your brain. If you erase this, the solutions to all your problems will reveal themselves.
Children are already enlightened because they know nothing. The greatest cause of stagnation of the mind is the indoctrination of individuals with what one sees as definite truths (on any level) when they are in the very fragile and easily influenced developing stage of the brain called childhood, killing their natural curiosity.
This has led to immense negativity throughout history; trapping our powerful minds in specific arbitrary boundaries.
Paradoxically, the unification of all human minds lies in realizing the seperation of them – we need to focus on what unites us all instead of getting hung up on small details. There's nothing wrong with sharing your own truth with the world – on the contrary, this is what will save mankind. Just never cross the line where you start to sell and vigorously impose your ideas on others; remember that everything can be true. All it takes is your personal optimistic interpretation of reality, and seperating this from the interpretations of others.
It's time for humanity to reach a greater level: by keeping positive undecidedness alive around each other, and particularly children, we can, eventually, eliminate all negativity.
I can only formulate my own thoughts. This theory makes sense to me. I hope I've written it down in a general, simple and clear enough way to enable all members of humanity to understand my argument. Like anyone else, I wish to spread my ultimate truths far and wide without limitations, hoping that they will lead to the improvement of humanity.
- J.H. Pollack
1. The mind can never know reality's true nature, because it's limited to a certain viewpoint. Reality MUST be neutral, for saying it is anything else requires a viewpoint or consciosness of some sort – which is limited.
2. Therefore, everything in your own mind is true – but a transcription of your definitions to reality must always be false. If you try to define reality from only one certain perspective you will always be wrong – because you're limited.
3. When you define reality, i.e. try to see an ultimate truth outside of your own consciousness, you invite negativity – even further limitation of the mind.
4. You can break free from your personal limitations by admitting that there is no absolute truth, only a personal one.
Note that embracing this theory doesn't mean abandoning anything that currently makes you feel happy and safe. Quite the contrary.
AN ATTEMPT AT A UNIFIED THEORY EXPLAINING EVERYTHING THAT MANKIND HAS EVER KNOWN – a solution to everything (hopefully)
You may find the following words vague and too general, but this is only because it's my hope that anyone who reads this will be able to relate to it and improve their lives. Don't get too defensive, trying to preserve your own opinion. Nothing I will say here will contradict anything you already know, all I want to do is to further expand your unlimited mind:
Like me, you are a human being with a consciousness of your own. You have lived through life obtaining and gathering information, making sense out of the chaos of reality. You have decided (consciously or subconsciously) to follow a set of ideas that makes your reality a logical, safe and happy place to live in. Others may not make you so happy and safe. You may have noticed that, while your set of ideas make perfect sense to yourself, you encounter difficulties and problems as soon as you try to fix the world and share these great truths of yours with your fellow man. Why is this? Which ideas are right, and which are wrong – ultimately? The simple answer to this question is that every idea is right. And wrong. The key to this lies in the realization of the seperation and unification of your own mind with other minds and what we call reality. Let me explain further.
What is reality? Realize that ultimately, an answer to this question can never be reached. Who is going to reach it? There will always be a certain limited viewpoint on 'reality': your mind or other forms of consciousness (otherwise, there is no 'who' in the previous stated question).
Therefore, trusting anything 100% is the death of creativity.
The key to so called enlightenment vs. stagnation of the mind is to have an openness towards everything – to simultaneously view ones surroundings from as many angles as one can.
Consider for a minute what this means.
It means that as soon as you dismiss anything as false, decide something conclusively, trust or view anything as an ultimate truth – your mind stagnates a little. This concerns everything.
Anyone who cross borders with an open mind will grow wisdom.
You might call the attitude I choose to have on life considering these points a kind of optimistic agnosticism: an optimistic outlook on everything, simply because it makes you and everyone around you happier; and agnosticism not just regarding the existence of God, but everything: an agnostic viewpoint is neither cowardly nor chaotic, it's on the contrary liberating because it is the dismissal of any one ultimate truth.
But if one isn't careful, even this viewpoint can bite itself in its paradoxical tail like an ouroboros, leading back to stagnation. How does one avoid it? Try with realizing the following points:
You have the right to create your own unique opinions, interpretations and models of your own reality.
You can do so (and you already do) for your own convenience – for example, it's easier to live if we assume that reality exists, if we use common conventions in communication or if we trust the results of independently reproducible scientific experiments. Empiricism is good because it makes sense out of everything fed into your brain.
These assumptions and tools are however always perceived through the filter of the mind; this is the beauty of life – one can never really find out the true nature of the information fed into your brain. No single ultimate truth can be reached, only a personal one – therefore you are entitled to believe in anything that makes sense to your mind; just remember that everyone around you (assuming they too have consciousness like yours) also make their own unique interpretations and models of their reality. It's easy to make the mistake of viewing ones own opinion as universal, since ones whole universe is nothing but a personal interpretation.
What this means is that every possible thought has meaning potential (with an open mind, there's no thought that can't enrich you), truth potential (you create your own truth) and have potential to be connected (if you can't see any other connection, the ultimate one is that everything you perceive is in your mind). Explore all possibilities.
Never belittle yourself. Comparing minds is useless. You are your universe.
Everything in the mind is true. Everything outside of the mind is false. This means that everything can be viewed as simultaneously true and false. There's no contradiction here.
The only true perfection is imperfection. In contrast to our common model of perfection as a stagnated state of purity and lack of chaos, imperfection has the potential of constant and endless improvement.
Learn the beauty of confusion, of doubt, of undecidedness. These things contain every possibility simultaneously; mind-blowing infinity.
There is no 'right'. There is no 'wrong'. There is no 'actually'.
I hope you – like me – will find that this point of view kills all the noise in your brain, erasing negativity (which can be defined as entrapment and restriction of the mind: what we daily call fear, anger, depression, evil etc.). This is extremely important. Whenever you view something as an ultimate, unchangeable truth outside of your own consciousness, you invite negativity and stagnation to your brain. If you erase this, the solutions to all your problems will reveal themselves.
Children are already enlightened because they know nothing. The greatest cause of stagnation of the mind is the indoctrination of individuals with what one sees as definite truths (on any level) when they are in the very fragile and easily influenced developing stage of the brain called childhood, killing their natural curiosity.
This has led to immense negativity throughout history; trapping our powerful minds in specific arbitrary boundaries.
Paradoxically, the unification of all human minds lies in realizing the seperation of them – we need to focus on what unites us all instead of getting hung up on small details. There's nothing wrong with sharing your own truth with the world – on the contrary, this is what will save mankind. Just never cross the line where you start to sell and vigorously impose your ideas on others; remember that everything can be true. All it takes is your personal optimistic interpretation of reality, and seperating this from the interpretations of others.
It's time for humanity to reach a greater level: by keeping positive undecidedness alive around each other, and particularly children, we can, eventually, eliminate all negativity.
I can only formulate my own thoughts. This theory makes sense to me. I hope I've written it down in a general, simple and clear enough way to enable all members of humanity to understand my argument. Like anyone else, I wish to spread my ultimate truths far and wide without limitations, hoping that they will lead to the improvement of humanity.
- J.H. Pollack
http://www.myspace.com/jhpollack
