Thursday, May 31, 2007

.: The ball has been thrown :.

It has been a week already since the last post, and the eventless week, has rather unsurprisingly provided me with no inspiration whatsoever on what to write. The motivation has somewhat diminished as well, as recently whenever I searched and scoured my heart and mind for something of substance to write all I can find is sadness. Contemplating on how to express the sadness in a creative and original way, however, always seems to lead to me being overwhelmed by the emotion and becoming totally devoid of hope, thus putting a premature end to my attempts to produce some content.

Ascetics would dearly like everyone to believe that when the physical body is occupied in a certain activity, then surely so must be the mind. Thus, being hardworking would definitely seem to advance the state of the mind. Yet, what the ascetics fail to realize is that while each bodily action must necessarily be accompanied by a command from the head, the level with which the mind operates differs. Working on something allows our mind to progress in a certain fashion, but at which direction does it develop, and at what velocity? Working might allow us to work out our earthly problems at a faster speed, yet the cost should not be ignored, for being engrossed in the improvement of the speed of the mind for certain tasks only mean the ability to transcend to a higher level is compromised. Mortals are limited in their bodily energies, and this includes the effort their brain can possibly exert. As a man would be unable to climb up stairs after he diverts his energies to running on the horizontal planes, hardworking people would have a hard time becoming enlightened.

On the contrary, it is when one is at a state of relaxation, when the physical body is doing nothing at all, that our minds can truly soar. The greatest of my realizations are mostly made on the bed, in a state of half slumber. Laziness often brings along it a greater level of enlightenment, which ascetics are quick to dismiss.

The battle raged is one sided for one major reason. With a greater level of enlightenment, hedonists often realize how futile it is to attempt to argue with those who are obsessed with experiencing pain and hardship, for they are merely another form of hedonists with skewed perceptions and senses. Thus hedonists often leave the ascetics to their own demise, allowing them to spew whatever lies they would desire to. Furthermore, enlightenment is as related to logic as good food is related to rotten pizzas. Logic might have been, and might still be equivalent to a sort of enlightenment to some people, but the association stops there, for logic can at most be a mere subset of enlightenment, and nothing more. Ascetics obsessed with using logic to prove everything are just like houseflies viewing a rotten pizza as their preferred form of good food, odious vermin believing that rotten pizza is the one and ultimate epitome of good food. Why, one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and let us remember how the wine we enjoy so much does nothing for maggots other than drowning and killing them.

Yes, I am saying all forms of pain or hard work are lowly form of enjoyment. Why, I don’t expect everyone, or anyone at all, to agree with me. Not as if whether or not anyone accepts my viewpoint affects me anyway, for it is sufficient as long as I have faith in my own beliefs.

It is really such a comforting thought to remind myself that no matter how lazy or hardworking I might be, it would be most likely inconsequential if the modern science holds. From the perspective of infinite time and infinite space, my personal actions have no consequence whatsoever on the end outcome. Humanity combined is a mere speck of dust in a desert, with no hope at all to leave any mark on the appearance of the sandy expanse. Of course, our ground assumption is that science holds, right? What if it does not hold?

If science, the most popular faith on this planet does not really give an accurate representation of truth, then perhaps it is good time humanity give up its hopeless attempt at acquiring knowledge it is not supposed to have. There might be no absolute knowledge at all. If that is so, does it not, all the more, give us every right to believe in whatever we want to, be it hedonism or the belief of the great teapot orbiting the earth? Why, since no belief is any different from another, then why not let us choose our faiths as we desire or as is fashionable. (Oh I forget, we are already choosing our faiths as is fashionable. All right its time we change our fashion a bit) It is like a pokemon world where all the pokemon have different looks, appearances, but the same stats and attacks. Why if that is so I’ll definitely just go with the one that looks nicest.

Hedonism, I choose you!

Rejected instrumentality at 7:56 PM