I am judging you too. I cannot help it. Comparison is part of fear/pride/knowledge.
Aside from the obvious confusion that people (other than me) seem to be displaying, what is it that confirms my superior seriousness?
Some experience, some feeling? What?
We were ‘nothing’ before birth and will be nothing after death. But here we have endeavored to be ‘something’ no matter how small or how grand. My something compares itself to your something and the division is already there. My something needs acknowledgement no matter how little but if it doesn’t get it it suffers. We see around us in societies that the biggest somethings get all the perks and the smaller ones get kicked around, the ‘losers’.
It seems to me that being nothing is where ‘it’s at’….we’ll be that again shortly anyway. Like it or not. Why not be it now?
Negate the movement in the direction of ‘becoming’?
@danmcderm et al
In our discussions, one very common tendancy is to go directly to solutions.
Another, possibly novel way of interacting in dialogue is to look closely at what is being said or asked, as if the question is of interest.
On kinfonet forum for exampe, one thing I do is to ignore my first reaction. I don’t always say what spontaneously comes up.
Instead I let that fall away if possible, then reread what actually is being said and asked from silence (if possible) and see if anything different comes up.
Maybe what I have to say is not always the most important element of dialogue, there is also everything else that might be going on.
I wonder why you wonder. I am the author of the story I am telling about the human condition, based on my experience, my conclusions and my questions. But if I am not very good at story-telling or my story isn’t believable, why do I bother? Is it because I’m conditioned to tell stories regardless of how poorly or dishonestly I do it?
If I know I’m no good at constructing an honest or believable story, I know I’m inferior to those who are good at it. But because I’m conditioned to doing it, I’m condemned to inferiority, and it seems unfair.
So I revolt by pretending I’m superior to most people, and inferior only to those I admire and revere and study and emulate in the hope of becoming as admired and beloved as they are.
If i understand you correctly you ask me why I am on Kinfonet? Am i right?
I can give you a lot of reasons, but i am wondering whether one of them will suffice , without provoking a reaction which will lead to another reaction and thereby creating a chain of reactions.
Having said that it becomes clear to me that this is not why i am on Kinfonet. It seems to me such a waste of time.
Basically, what you are saying is (and heaven forbids that this is a conclusion😉) that we are that we are not seriously interested in what is being asked. Are we bored ?
In reply to Mcdougdoug
Who/What is this in reply to?
Yes, in a way we are more interested in our own answers. We are already giving solutions, to an imagined problem, rather than listening with care.
Indeed. I was responding to Macdougdoug