Post by clockwork on Dec 15, 2006 5:51:33 GMT -5
Lets see 4 am, me not playing to go to sleep tonight, exhausted state of hallucination, Philosophy!
Nothing like it being late a night, everything becomes philosophical. Tonights special: Linear thought to a cyclical being.
Did you ever think about how we think of time as linear instead of cyclical? I mean its only a 400 year old idea, coming for the Renisanne. In the after effects of the Black Death, many many changes came into being. With a third of the humanity they knew being dead, the people of Europe was ready for major changes. One of them was the thought of progression of time. Every single society has though of time as cyclical at first, the only people to change this idea was European culture and its influence on other cultures. Think about it, we have seasons and months that repeat. The Romans never thought of time as linear but as a circle. "Primative" cultures in New Guinea still think of time as cyclical. Death and Rebirth. A concept that is forever etched onto humanity. Every religion has a story about death and rebirth. Every human thinks in these terms. We think of our childern carrying on the family and memories of you. Everyone thinks of death and rebirth when the sun sets and rises again the next day. So why are we thinking in linear terms?
Ever think of how the English langauge we use is so hard wired for linear thought? We progress foward, nowhere to go but up, we dont want to go back. The business world and scienitific world want us all to think in linear terms. But are we linear or cyclical beings? I am in a firm belief that we are cyclical beings. Its been my own experiance with pychology that leads me to this conclusion. Depression has sometimes been called the new epidimec. with it being predicted that atleast two-thrids of humans experiancing it. But though extensive reading of healing methods (both physical and mental) from the time of the greeks to the medieval ages, depression didn't even exsist. But nowadays with people become depressed because they didn't try hard enough at something, or not doing something in the past, or regret past mistakes thinking that the rest of their life is doomed because of it. I, too, have felt this. Every night I become depressed with regrets and things I have to do. Yet, somehow, every morning when I wake up, I am just happy that I woke up. Using this I feel that humans are cyclical beings. If you feel everyday is a rebirth of your life, that you can do anything for that day and tomarrow will just be another, then I feel this new "progress depression" would no longer exsist. I do realize that this really isn't possible because our society is based on linear progress. I just can't help but think we keep forgeting that humans are animals too, and just because survival is easier to accoplish then it was in yesteryears, we should just be happy with our survival. So feel free to celebrate in the morning because the sun rose again.
Nothing like it being late a night, everything becomes philosophical. Tonights special: Linear thought to a cyclical being.
Did you ever think about how we think of time as linear instead of cyclical? I mean its only a 400 year old idea, coming for the Renisanne. In the after effects of the Black Death, many many changes came into being. With a third of the humanity they knew being dead, the people of Europe was ready for major changes. One of them was the thought of progression of time. Every single society has though of time as cyclical at first, the only people to change this idea was European culture and its influence on other cultures. Think about it, we have seasons and months that repeat. The Romans never thought of time as linear but as a circle. "Primative" cultures in New Guinea still think of time as cyclical. Death and Rebirth. A concept that is forever etched onto humanity. Every religion has a story about death and rebirth. Every human thinks in these terms. We think of our childern carrying on the family and memories of you. Everyone thinks of death and rebirth when the sun sets and rises again the next day. So why are we thinking in linear terms?
Ever think of how the English langauge we use is so hard wired for linear thought? We progress foward, nowhere to go but up, we dont want to go back. The business world and scienitific world want us all to think in linear terms. But are we linear or cyclical beings? I am in a firm belief that we are cyclical beings. Its been my own experiance with pychology that leads me to this conclusion. Depression has sometimes been called the new epidimec. with it being predicted that atleast two-thrids of humans experiancing it. But though extensive reading of healing methods (both physical and mental) from the time of the greeks to the medieval ages, depression didn't even exsist. But nowadays with people become depressed because they didn't try hard enough at something, or not doing something in the past, or regret past mistakes thinking that the rest of their life is doomed because of it. I, too, have felt this. Every night I become depressed with regrets and things I have to do. Yet, somehow, every morning when I wake up, I am just happy that I woke up. Using this I feel that humans are cyclical beings. If you feel everyday is a rebirth of your life, that you can do anything for that day and tomarrow will just be another, then I feel this new "progress depression" would no longer exsist. I do realize that this really isn't possible because our society is based on linear progress. I just can't help but think we keep forgeting that humans are animals too, and just because survival is easier to accoplish then it was in yesteryears, we should just be happy with our survival. So feel free to celebrate in the morning because the sun rose again.
