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All things living and not have an inherent need to grow, expand, multiply. From birth, we have been a collective of physical objects, not exempt from this law of the universe, they grew, got bigger, fatter, longer, multiplied. Did we choose as such? Were our brains able to comprehend or participate in free will? Would we be able to choose our destiny?
Eventually our brains get better developed. We can choose some things, but not all things, we have little control of our body, we have little control of the way we react to to spiders, to girls, to fire. Of-course some of us don't fear spiders as much as others, some of us will go chasing spiders when we grow up, others chasing girls. But most all of us will fear fire. But we choose to listen to certain types of music, watch certain cartoons, be friends with certain people, make fun of certain people. Do we really though? We listen to Armenian music because we are...Armenian, pop music because its popular. We befriend some because they perhaps have something we want, a shiny bicycle perhaps. Are mean to others because they walk weird, look weird, are foreign to us.
Things get interesting in the metaphysical realm when we get older. We can better choose.. music, girls, friends, enemies, what we eat, where we sleep, who we sleep with. But perhaps not? Certain experiences in our childhood might have left us biased in several subjects. Why we might like classical music, why I might prefer brunettes, why I dislike Turks. So we are back where we started.
We often see ourselves as one person, one object, but in my view we are (as said earlier) a collective. We are compromised of so many, their one goal is to grow, expand, get bigger. Our physical selves and our ideas, the world view we gather from sense data competes for our attention. Blonds and brunettes have been battling it out, brunettes seem to rise victorious save for some moments when the ground beneath them falters to make exception for a certain blonde, but they soon regain ground. So many genres of music, so many films, so many people out there, who do we accept as brethren? Who do we see as our enemies? A wise man once said: ...every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain... A wise four fingered man indeed, for competing ideas cannot occupy the same space in our minds. So which is it? Rap or Rock? Left or Right? Up or Down? Brunette or Blonde? Friend or Foe?
It is through repression, that free will is born. Sometime in our life we no longer allow just any idea to enter our minds, any food to enter our stomachs. In general any one thing in the universe that is screaming to grow, to expand, to be more, to expand into us, to occupy us, take hold of us. As we learn we discipline ourselves. I say repression because our minds are as hungry to grow as anything else in this universe, the metaphysical space that exists within will be occupied, it is the what we gain through discipline that keeps certain things out, and lets certain things naturally grow, expand, through us.
Eventually our brains get better developed. We can choose some things, but not all things, we have little control of our body, we have little control of the way we react to to spiders, to girls, to fire. Of-course some of us don't fear spiders as much as others, some of us will go chasing spiders when we grow up, others chasing girls. But most all of us will fear fire. But we choose to listen to certain types of music, watch certain cartoons, be friends with certain people, make fun of certain people. Do we really though? We listen to Armenian music because we are...Armenian, pop music because its popular. We befriend some because they perhaps have something we want, a shiny bicycle perhaps. Are mean to others because they walk weird, look weird, are foreign to us.
Things get interesting in the metaphysical realm when we get older. We can better choose.. music, girls, friends, enemies, what we eat, where we sleep, who we sleep with. But perhaps not? Certain experiences in our childhood might have left us biased in several subjects. Why we might like classical music, why I might prefer brunettes, why I dislike Turks. So we are back where we started.
We often see ourselves as one person, one object, but in my view we are (as said earlier) a collective. We are compromised of so many, their one goal is to grow, expand, get bigger. Our physical selves and our ideas, the world view we gather from sense data competes for our attention. Blonds and brunettes have been battling it out, brunettes seem to rise victorious save for some moments when the ground beneath them falters to make exception for a certain blonde, but they soon regain ground. So many genres of music, so many films, so many people out there, who do we accept as brethren? Who do we see as our enemies? A wise man once said: ...every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain... A wise four fingered man indeed, for competing ideas cannot occupy the same space in our minds. So which is it? Rap or Rock? Left or Right? Up or Down? Brunette or Blonde? Friend or Foe?
It is through repression, that free will is born. Sometime in our life we no longer allow just any idea to enter our minds, any food to enter our stomachs. In general any one thing in the universe that is screaming to grow, to expand, to be more, to expand into us, to occupy us, take hold of us. As we learn we discipline ourselves. I say repression because our minds are as hungry to grow as anything else in this universe, the metaphysical space that exists within will be occupied, it is the what we gain through discipline that keeps certain things out, and lets certain things naturally grow, expand, through us.
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