Friday, June 02, 2006

 

06.01.06

You need proof that there's no such thing as giants?

Okay, well... think about this.

We all enjoy swimming in the pool from time to time, yeah?

It only follows that giants wouldn't fit in normal pools, so they'd have to swim in lakes or in one of the various oceans.

Question: How many times do people often relieve themselves in the pools (and it's noticeable)?--

far more often than you would like to think.

Have you ever seen giant feces or a floating school of urine in a lake or in the ocean?

Didn't think so.

You ever sit there and think about how, at this moment in time, everyone else in the world is living, working, breathing, surviving and thinking (maybe even about the same things you are).

To know that the world is a lively organism with all of it's inhabitants doing their own thing-- it's just mindblowing.

Well, if you don't, you're one of two people: the mindblown and the not-knowing.

Of course there's only two types of people in this world.

There's just many types.

Those that "do ____" and those that "don't ____" will set the stage.

I'm an optimist. Well, more specifically-- an optimist that likes to excercise reasoning whenever possible. I like to think I'm a realist with an optimist overtone.

It's a dangerous thing to be a pure optimist-- optimists can be extremely naive.

There's a keen difference between being positive because you don't want to see the negative and being positive because you're aware of the negative.

One of the big keys on the gauntlet to enlightenment is to achieve a mentality of the latter. It definitely helps.

Besides, knowing all the angles gives your more options-- and ultimately, more control.

And most kids like control. Believe it.

I don't believe that things happen for a reason.

Well, to clarify, I don't like to believe that things happen for a reason nor that the Big Man Upstairs has a plan.

Why? Because that would imply that, ultimately, you really don't have free will.

To say that things happen for a reason is to say that things happen in one's lifetime in a sequential order.

That decision that you thought you made based on reasoning-- it was already pre-planned ages ago.

I'm more of a "stuff happens" kind of person with a little bit of cause and effect. I like to believe that I have some control over what I do.

Hey, you were at the wrong place at the wrong time-- it happens.

You were out there doing your own thing on your own accord-- everyone else is doing the same.

Of course paths are going to cross eventually.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, "But Ryan, there are times when you say, 'Oh, they'll get theirs. It's all good.' Isn't that kind of going against what you're saying-- that if the universe unfolds as it should, then it implies that there's a degree of no control?"

Oh, but no-- that's not what I'm saying.

When I say that, I mean that eventually, something will have to happen. It's a matter of mathematics.

Statistically, we cannot evade all troubles-- we'll all get ours. It happens.

You might ask-- why do really bad things happen to good people?

In the scheme of things, I would say that really bad things happen to everyone-- it's just more noticeable to those that usually have it good or are of a "good nature".

I could concede-- given that there are some things out of our hands and there exist a heaven or a haven for the good, that perhaps such travesties are markers or obstacles that test our will and our mentalities of good.

In the such tragic cases that end in death, perhaps it's just an easy ticket to the really good stuff. This would explain why the "wicked" seem to have longer lifespans-- that it's a punishment to have to live longer in suffering (and on a merciful level, it's better to prolong their mortal status as long as possible if they really aren't headed to the place of godly awesomeness).

"Why is this my life?" is everyone's question.

Docking out...
-Ryan : reasons

Ryan posted this at 2:06 AM.