EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Wed 06 Jan 2021 5:45 pm
erol wrote: ↑Wed 06 Jan 2021 5:24 pm
You may only be able to see the world in terms of a 'game' of between two polar binary camps with nothing in between.
No I don't use the word binary but then I only read the sport in the Guardian. I've noticed you've only started over using it recently so I'm interested was it word of the day a month or two back or there is a new writer on there who uses it a lot?
Forget lions and sheep it's like Pavlov's dog really. I could flick through a few Guardians and pretty much know what you are going to shoehorn in to a thread or start one on.
It is the result of a dawning realisation that is the accumulation of my 54 years of existence to date. It is an expression of my identity of who I am or at least who I currently think I am.
We are finite beings struggling to understand the infinite universe we live in. We have to use short cuts. There is no other option. Dividing the universe in to simplified binary camps is what we have to do. This is not the 'problem'. The problem is when we take something that is only a shortcut, can only ever be a shortcut and start believing and behaving as if the short cut is the actual underlying reality of the universe. I am increasingly coming to the view / belief that it is this that is actually both the root off the vast majority of human conflict and our inability to overcome that and not the issue itself that prompted the simplification in the first place
This is a theory that it has taken my whole life to date to come too and not some buzz word I read in the guardian. It however did 'solidify' in my head and move from feeling to expressible idea fairly recently and with a speed that was frightening as well as it was exhilarating. This solidification was so fast and so profound that for a while people who had know and loved me for decades were forced to wonder if I was going through some kind of breakdown. For almost six weeks I found myself unable to add 'at some level and to some degree' to any statement made to or by me. The trigger for this solidification was in fact two specific posts here on this forum, one from kibris solar and another from Sophie. I remember them vividly now still and can search and find them should anyone actually be interested.
For the record ETS in real life I find you a 'smart cookie' and one of the funniest and most entertaining people I know. I consider you a friend. To me in real life you are 'good people'. That is one shortcut I use as a finite being in an infinite world but I do this never forgetting that it is just a shortcut and not a reflection of the reality of the universe. However here in this place, you appear to have an entirely different identity to me, not in what you say but in how you say it. It is mystifying to me. Nor can I say I consider this identity, your forum one, that seems to me so different and distinct from the real life one I have of you, as being that of 'good people'.