A layman’s one-time blog, article, essay, whatever
Re literacy: Not a writer, little college and English is 2nd language although preferred from native language. This posting duly apologizes for the lack of clarity caused by inadequate vocabulary, etc….from a clearly aging brain indeed
As an aging human, it is time for a sort of Hello-Goodbye for what may be last posting. As a last notice also, nothing here is imposed on others. It is a given that it is up to others to find out for themselves, an urgent responsibility of the “thinking” human species.
The human species given reality in the human brain is illusion of reality, particularly from qualia. Such as human experience is an interpretation by the brain of the perceptions of the 5 basic (and more) human senses and are private to each human brain. As such, the brain in Hello-Goodbye is taking the exception of a look outside (so to speak for lack of words) of an “OUT THERE” that is unknowable and not subject to brain interpretation.
About “IN HERE” and “OUT THERE”. The “IN HERE” is where a human does its “thinking”, in the brain in the tiny corner of the human head. The “OUT THERE” is the unknowable: a look outside without a touch of knowledge, without any knowing in the human brain. OUT THERE is translated or transformed into the IN HERE illusory world of things and ideas, the artifacts of “thinking” in the brain. Things refer to what is material while ideas refer to what is imagined. In a world of matter and imagination, a language is a powerful thinking tool and the evolution of language is an important factor in the dominance of the human species.
Words from a language can indeed dominate thinking and communication. The 2 main focuses here will be the becoming of a Self and when the “thinking” “mind” touches “the word is not the thing”.
The expression “the word is not the thing” emphasizes the distinction in what is a thing and what is an idea. But the expression may only be masking problems in human thinking because importantly, it appears that “things” and “ideas” share the same brain. As such it also appears that the same brain always work at the same time deciding what is a thing and on what is an idea although the “mind” may only be working on what is already thought as being a thing, or being an idea. But the separation of brain lobes gives the control to the brain although the “mind” may not be aware that what is a thing and what is an idea is both an open process in the brain although in separate brain lobes. As such, “the word is not a thing” is subject to being meaningless if the open process result is a deluded “mind” thinking about the values of word. Thus the anomaly in thinking can also then get the mind to decide how to value the word as a thing and how to value it as a word. As such, intermixed results exist in thinking that may be very chaotic or biased in a “mind” caught in a severe thinking anomaly. As such, much nothing to do with hypocritical thinking but rather more as possible causes of serious human mental disorders.
It is under such conditions that the intermixed results are from an interplay that has evolved in the brain structured to have 2 open parts on the same word at the same time and as such puts the “mind” to resolve what is a thing and what is an idea.
Indeed is an interplay with intermixed results to resolve problems in terms of material values and of meanings on what is a thing and what is an idea or words. In an interplay the state of “mind” – whether of a Self or not – is crucial because of the diversity of cultures, education, evolution, etc in the human species. For instance, it is difficult to imagine what can come from a “mind” – whether purposely or incedentally – in an intermix of things and a words, such as whether to take the “meaning” of words as less important when the focus has become more in the material “material values” of the words. A serious life-changing situation if any indeed, and chaotic thinking from the diversities. A very simple and plain example is the common word “love”. Projecting how each private mind in the human species will consider the word “love” in terms of its ideal meaning and its material value will be very disparate indeed in a world of Self, ownership, feeling. emotions, pain and pleasures, identities and recognitions, for the-more-and-the-better concepts, etc. A common disparate intermix of ideal meanings and material values is parental “love”, which can range from true concerns with raising their children. And range to narcisistic motives to control their children, for material reasons or whatever. The intermixings practically nothing to do with hypocrisy.
Another plain example also is to contrast the 3r’s of “reading, (a)rithmetic, (w)riting” in a child formal education to the 3r’s of “recite,repeat, remember” in a child growing-up conditioning.
It can indeed be revealing to see the extent a word can do to condition human private minds into different life-changing conditions. To see how human societies can be so divided in their “thinking” by whatever is the objects or motives. The effect to the Self can be horrific, so to speak, for a disorder can be severe or unpredictable, not just in trauma or psychology.
“The word is not a thing” can be a true representation indeed. Unless it is valued as a thing, more or less. More or less, such as pointed out in the simple examples to the complications in what state the mind, thinking as the Self, is being in control in an interplay of what is thing and what is an idea, A word treated as a thing can have serious repercussions but maybe the common one is a human in a delusion of “wearing” it as a thing, commonly to be authoritative. For example to wear it as a badge to control others – a reality in a delusion when the meaning of words is truly meaningless,
Reliance in the lie and delusion from words is very common to the human species from its being a “thinking” species, especially when trapped in the illusion of a Self. An extreme example of the illusions and delusions of human thinking and thoughts may strongly point to this fact. The following is a short personal story of delusional “thinking” to the point of being ridiculous.. It is also to demonstrate a Self self-identifying to be the center, or the master, unable to recognize that as such, it is being a slave to itself.
This short story is an extreme example, and real as it is about my experiences not long ago with someone who is named here Bob.
Bob used to help me with his pickup. I soon discovered soon that Bob has a mantra, so to speak, to manipulate me: “I am helping”. The meaning of the words does not matter as “I am helping” serves only as a license or a badge to control me, whether Bob is being compensated when helping me or directly getting whatever he wants from me. Something I tolerated, was generous in how much I compensated him, even raising what I give him to hardly I can afford when he said I should help pay his house mortgage.(Why?… from “I am helping” of course). But “I am helping” soon got ridiculous. One morning Bob called me about garbage dumped in my lot, said idiots did it and as usual would help me. But I noticed the garbage was dumped neatly, so I knew right away he was the idiot who did it with the help of someone who drove by. They did it to collect good money from me when they clean up the garbage. There is a lot more in the story but enough.
The significance of being “ridiculous” is only to point out that “the word is not a thing” be taken mindfully. Specially to the Self being a product of itself, it is the “mind” caught in false distinctions by the paradox of thinking. Human thinking, or the Self (good question to oneself if the Self is a thing or an idea?) is normally – creative or conditioned – from the diversity of what is a thing and what is an idea as both work the brain in common areas in the tiny corner of the head. As such “thinking” thinks a “thinker” (usually the becoming of the Self) into existence – from conditioned evolution or as something inevitable in the paradox of thinking to be self-referential.
As it appears that the brain can control how the mind behave, it may be that interplays commonly occur in other forms. It may be a quirk of evolution that the brain is also structured to cause serious mental and body disorders in human health. But then again maybe just one “reality” of survival by natural selection…maybe such is also the “reality” of anomalies in thinking, of the Self, of the-more-and-the-better, etc. As such, Hello life-Goodbye life indeed.
THE BECOMING OF THE SELF
The illusion of a Self can easily be from an anomaly in the paradox of thinking. Such as a thinker, the Self, is the becoming of self-reference when thinking think itself into existence. Probably a “natural” paradox situation because thinking itself is easily naturally self-referential to the idea of what or who is doing the thinking. Specially if the brain is already accustomed to the concepts of identity and recognition that the self-reference itself may easily extend also to the idea of existence, as such an evolved revolutionary quality of a thinking “mind”. Hence easily also the illusory ghost, the “mind” self-identifying itself as the center of thinking. And as such, sooner than later, a seeker of the-more-and-the-better.
The becoming of the Self is also not a remote probability if the “thinking” mind is already psychologically familiar with the qualia state of feelings and of emotions.
ORDER AND DISORDER
There is the complexities in the trappings of rigorous logic and rules. The “mind”, or the Self, trapped in its collection of things and ideas and the intermixes, even in the bags of cultures and moralities. So much ownership that may be freed of, not to think and be stressful about – especially in the trappings of the Self : owner and owned, master and slave,past-present-future,this-or-that, trappings of the-more-and-the-better, so on. Such rigorous thinking is characteristic, more or less, of science, spirituality, philosophy, authoritarianism, business institutions, so on. A lack of openness in the rigorous logic and rules,etc can be confining traps, the pressures to control, conform or belong duly causing “limitations”.
What has been notable is that the ideas in Hello-Goodbye are mostly observations of disorders in the anomalies of thinking. Life is simple and does not require the complications of stressful thinking required by a rigorous order. But yet again, to see for oneself.
“OUT THERE” ????
Crudely put in words here, as something to find out for oneself because all-there-is, so to speak, is outside the think-think-think of the human species thinking, especially the me-me-me thinking
Such is human reality, that it is very common to be trapped in the becoming of an illusory Self, competing for itself in the world, Such stressful human condition falling to the power of words from the evolution of languages, the false realities from the brain, the effects and after effects from the working of the human senses, so on.
To live by the illusions and delusions of the Self is to be confined to the illusory world of the Self and as such, OUT THERE can not be seen, glimpsed, whatever, as there is only the illusory existence and world of the Self. But life is simple and to be in the living presence of unknowability is simplicity as there is freedom from the known,and freedom from contradictions. As such OUT THERE is the living presence that no conditioning, no Self, no mind, no existence can penetrate. So indeed to be OUT THERE is to be wordless, is to be nothing, is to be nowhere.
Where To? 