Tuesday, May 01, 2007

.: The truth about yourself :.

Time and again, I see mortals plagued with what they call “failure”, and I believe as an enlightened one it is essential and necessary that I at least try to spread my understanding and illuminate the lives of others as well. Read the words following; take them in your heart, follow my advices, and you shall be rewarded with the sweetness of success, the liberation from human mediocrity and be transcended into unfathomable greatness.

The first step to the true knowledge comes from the understanding that all knowledge comes from yourself and yourself only. Whether you are a proponent of empiricism or a firm supporter of rationalism, or somewhere in-between, the undeniable fact (or the closest we can ever get to an undeniable fact) remains that the only verifiable source of knowledge is our very selves, be it our senses or our reasoning.

Next, it is important to realize that the existence of the universe as we understand it hinges upon the very existence of our thoughts. Our thoughts are the only verifiable sources from which we can derive understanding of the universe. Someone else might claim to have knowledge of the universe, but until I believe in that knowledge it remains an unverifiable thought which might not even exist, a mere observation on my part that some creature claiming to be a human, claiming to have sentience and consciousness, claiming a certain kind of understanding of the universe which might entirely be fictitious all I know. In other words, whatever knowledge from others can be said to come from me myself in the form of sensory perceptions, since it is impossible to know whether anything beyond my own consciousness even exists in the first place. Obviously this argument can be replicated for each person in the world who has a consciousness, since he won’t be able to know whether other people exist. You won’t be able to tell whether this post you are reading right now is really written by a person called Wentao, or written by a illusion which looks like a human, calls himself Wentao and likes to post weird things on something called a blog. Life can be compared to a well-designed computer game, in which you won’t be able to tell whether you are meeting other players, playing with NPCs, or not even playing the game, but in fact watching a replay and having the illusion drilled into you that you have free will and are making the decisions when actually everything has been predestined. In summary, the conclusion is obvious; that the only understanding which you can ever proof to exist is your own one. Everything you experience is but parts that might or might not contribute to your understanding. Since my own understanding is the sole verifiable understanding of the universe, then it follows that it is the most important one as well, since if I were to cease to exist all of a sudden, then the universe as I understand it would most definitely be destroyed as well. Similarly for the person reading the post who might have a consciousness, the only understanding of the universe that you know exists is your own, and if it should disappear, the universe can be said to vanish as well.

What follows this is the fact that I am indeed the center of the universe, and if everything happens for a reason, the reason must be me, since I am the only reason that can exist. With nothing else from which I can verify the existence of the universe, I am the one and only, and I am everything.

And how does this link to “success” or “failure”? It is important to realize that success is a defined quality, not an objective truth. I have already proven above that my own existence is the only one I can ever verify, and therefore the most important, so whose definition can ever be more important than my very own? Hence, whether or not I am successful or not would depend entirely on how I define success. I can decide to think that I am successful, or decide to think that I am an utter failure. Because I am the reason for everything, everything depends on me. Hence since I have defined success to be my very self, then each and every other person who differs from me in anyway would never ever be more successful than I am. (Yes, this is almost the same thing that I said on 2klever blog to cheer shida up, another case of multiple reasoning reaching the same eventual conclusion, and more evidence that the conclusion is correct) If you are reading this and do have a consciousness, then this applies to you as well as it does to me. The next important thing is to believe in your own success. So each of those reading this blog right now who has lost yourselves to vicious attempts to destroy your ego, repeat this after me:

I am the one.
I am the only.
I am everything.
I am the center of the universe.
I define success as myself.
There is no failure possible for me.

Of course, this argument leads to the justification of extreme “selfishness” and “self-absorption” which “society” likes to shun so quickly. Yet look through my arguments and you will realize that the logic is impeccably flawless. This is the closest you can get to the truth, and if the truth justifies me being self-absorbed, then so shall it be.

I don’t really care if you worship what I just wrote, or spit on your computer screen when you read this with disgust, since all that really matters is that I myself know the truth. (Of course it’s also because if you spit on your computer screen you are the one who is going to have to clean it up later anyway, not me)

Rejected instrumentality at 3:26 PM