The Human Experience

Got some more heavy thoughts for you, kiddies. So fasten your seatbelts because this ride is about to turn upside-down.

In this post we're going to talk about what it really means to be Human. What makes us different and why, and how we should use that knowledge to better understand and influence the way we live our short meaningless lives.

The human life is rooted in the physical. We have physical bodies that we use to interact with the physical things around us. Our perspective is limited to the things that physically exist in front of us. Some of us get lost in this perception and come to the false conclusion that only physical things are real since that's all our bodies can understand as input. But if you truly believe this you may as well wear horse blinders and hop around on one foot to give yourself an idea of how this lack of understanding impairs you. Example. Just because the infrared spectrum can't be seen by the naked eye doesn't mean it isn't real. Science has proved it is real and it is now able to be experienced via technology. But if you tried to explain Infrared light to an ancient Roman (assuming you could communicate at all) they would probably cut off your head. Why? Because their perspective was limited. They couldn't accept that something they couldn't see could exist. This kind of thinking is a HINDRANCE to progress of any kind.

Anyway, i said all of that to illustrate a point. The point being we root ourselves in the physical and often ignore everything else. Agreed? Okay. Let's move on. I'm going somewhere with this.

If the defining factor of being a Human is our unique ability to process and believe in our physical experience, then EVERYTHING about the physical experience is part of what makes us human. This includes things like pain, discomfort, being tired... These things should not be feared because they are part of what makes us who we are. To me, pain only serves to prove my humanity and therefore my existence. "I hurt, therefore I am."

Also fear itself has no place in the rational open mind. Not even the fear of fear. I mean, just think about that phrase for a moment. The fear of fear. It makes me want to laugh.
What are things that we as humans commonly fear? The fear of not being comfortable, not being in control. The fear of death is a big one... one that i have already conquered and i hope someday you will too. The fear of the unknown or foreign. Foreign ideas, foreign surroundings, anything we don't recognize and instantly understand holds a fear and a mystery for us. But why is this? BECAUSE WE CRIPPLE OURSELVES THROUGH LIMITED PERCEPTION. If you understand that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreampt of in your philosophies" you will realize that you have nothing to fear of the unknown. It has existed longer than you have, probably longer than humans as a a race have, and it hasn't wiped us out yet so why be afraid of it? Even if something has the ability to kill me, that's the worst it can do. And not fearing death, this is an empty threat.
In conclusion to this current line of thought, Fear is also a part of the Human Experience but it is a part that needs to be controlled, dominated, subjugated, and ultimately conquered. Fear is a hindrance to personal progress.

As humans with limited perceptions, living inside the maze we've built for ourselves with walls made out of our own imaginary impossibilities, we have created systems of government to maintain "Order" inside these mazes. Because weak-minded humans who can't see past their own face can't maintain any kind of order on their own. Governments, given this power of their people, the power of Fear, use it to their advantage to gain more Control. A government is basically a larger human structure that bullies the smaller individual humans under it into submission. Do you fear anarchy? Do you fear chaos? Why? Because you have been TAUGHT to. The human condition IS chaos. We are born into a chaotic world and we will die in an even more chaotic world, if physics have been proven by science to be true than the theory of Entropy is also true and if you would take one single minute to open your eyes and look past your blinders at the world around you, you would see it to be true. Chaos is eternal. Why run from it? Why fear it? Fearing it will accomplish nothing. It will only limit you. Fear is a shackle. Fear is the saw that amputates our limbs, leaving us helpless. I have chosen to accept chaos as a fact of my daily life, and my life has benefited from it. Because if i no longer fear it, i am free to move in, out, and among it peacefully.

Worry is no longer part of my vocabulary. This world is bigger than myself, it contains mysteries that i will never discover, but i am at peace with that. And because of that, i am FREE.

that's all for now. my brain is tired.