Feyokien wrote:
It makes me happy I guess to know that like your spider that putting forth the best effort we can to survive is usually good enough.
i see no meaning in it other than that i identified with both the fly and the spider. the spider waited a long time in suspense, and the fly was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
people may see themselves as so much more rich of mind and superior of thought than both those beings, that they conceive only as an impartial spectator to their lives, their realities.
if i was born a fly, then it would be very sad for me. i do not believe in reincarnation, and so i think the fly and the spider are living their only shot at life, and when it is over they will never exist again.
what a short and uncomfortable experience of existence they have.
how can god only give them such a brief and hardship stricken experience of life for such a short time before they cease to exist? what did they do to be born so short of luck? nothing, because they never lived before i believe, and so they are totally innocent and i feel sorry for their plights. there must be an answer though because if there was not, it would not happen that way. i will never be able to determine the answer to that.
Feyokien wrote:
Because we're the spider in your story, not the fly.
i am not anthropomorphizing either the fly or the spider, because to do so would impair my clarity of view of what i think about them in an essential sense.
there is no allegory or parable in what i said. just simple sterile observation laced with my opinion about it.
Feyokien wrote:
To be actually happy is another story entirely and I begin to doubt my ability to ever feel it.
if it feels good it may as well be called happy even if no other witness would describe it as such. feeling good is all that matters really, and if one can feel that for no serious reason, then they are well off.
Feyokien wrote:
The ease of survival makes me content though and who knows, maybe one day I wont just be surviving.
i do feel sorry for those who struggle to survive, but it is a big world, and my purpose for being born is non existent. i was not born to "even out the score" and feel guilty for having less hassles than those who were born to less comfortable lives.
there is such a thing as "the luck of the draw", and it is simply that that consigns you to live whatever life you lead with whatever attitude you have. i am lucky to like how my days are spent and have the attitude i have about them, and some are not, but that is the luck of the draw and i am not responsible for luck.
money is the source of most displacement for humans.
if there was no money (in any form), then there would be almost no crime and almost no feelings of insecurity.
if you have all the money you will ever need (the same result as not needing money), then you are free to think and live as you please. free to suffer the crushing boredom of non engagement, or free to enjoy looking at all the tiny things you would never otherwise have time to inspect.
it is important to make enough money quickly so that one can live how one wants, but money seems to be very hard to come by for younger people starting out.
i would hate to be one of them.
i am finished with this topic by the way.
16 Sep 2015, 3:32 pm
