Often people speak of things they devote themselves to; almost as if the readings of modern devotees towards certain subjects can allow the individual to develop an understanding of what they study. An understanding of words in a language is only one small part of the underlying thought; for how can you define a subject by words when unsuitable definitions are sparingly compiled for that definition to occur? People are taught definitions of certain words; which are compounded upon each other to form a greater definition, but what if the root definition of one small word was incorrect? If we were to take a basic definition of life, to say that the biological construct shields the mind and structure of what it contains in such a fashion that it exists until its chemical unison degrades and its physical structure fails. We would, too many people; in simpler terms, be agreed upon; yet what if we spun the definition of life back through the ages to simpler times, it would still be agreed upon in those days. Most people of today frown upon the ideas of our past, at least where science or progression appears; they dwell on some certain small aspects which exist in our history, from relics of the past. However in most cases they feel that our definitive existence pinnacles anything of any time of our human history; even more naturally inclined people feel that in some way they are ahead of the game in certain ways.
We cannot afford to allow the ideas of our modern education to influence our lives in such ways which disregard the teachings of our past lives. It is only the methods we learn, and how we live in our society which has bound our minds from seeing truth beyond instruction. Reading to this point may seem as if I am against advancement and education; yet truthfully I seek to only allow us to see the faults in learning from people who know nothing of what they teach, so that we can base only what we know on what we learn for ourselves. People would say that redefining all that we know, and relearning it all is impossible; for we have spend so many years learning it, how about the idea that we never learned it; and that the only time we learn a thing is when no guide or substitute can be found for the ocean of learning which we can tap if we so require it. Deep down within us all is a programming of knowledge, from our very youngest age our body knows how to grow and to prolong its life; before science says we have the capacity to learn or truly know consciousness; our body knows what to do. Without instruction of course we would not advance as quick, yet after our basic instructions have been given; we must grow beyond the shell and beyond the limited ideas of what is written.
At a certain level of advanced awakening we set forth upon what we wish to know and we know it as we need it; there needs to be no writing of it, no teaching of it to another; for they know it too. The world does not acknowledge this idea because it is fearful of losing control of what it believes it has. When we let go however, we begin to realize the structure of true thought; and the power to control it. In our modern age people are beginning to once again believe in the power of the mind, the idea that we can overcome things and bring forth certain influences into our lives by focusing our thoughts towards certain ends. Even in the aspect of a small event or idea we are utilizing our thoughts to focus on what we wish, if we truly want to focus on drinking a coffee, we will purchase one and drink it, a simple event.
The power of our thoughts is limited only by the existence of the ways we learn…
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I would add that thoughts don’t create our reality, but they surely DO open doors to the infinite possibilities in life that were there waiting for us the entire time.
99.9% of what society does is impose punitive scorn on peoples dreams. “YOU can’t sing” or “YOU can’t write a novel” or “YOU’LL never be any good at baseball” are the sort of things we say to one another. All of these rebukes only work if we believe in them– and billions of us do. We all think we’re too fat, too thin, too tall, too short; our list of self-imposed rebukes is endless… and growing every day! Conforming with society is not in anyone’s personal interests!
When I think of humanity I’m more worried about the 99.9% of people who are treading cautiously and compliantly through life, than I am worried about the 0.01% who are running amok through the world. (The ones on T.V. who make millions of dollars but they can’t sing or act either, but they didn’t listen to their critics) The 99.9% pay the salaries of the 0.01% willingly, and eagerly, because they glimpse something there that they admire and wish for in their own lives.
jpd- (my rambling thoughts create my rambling reality? Probably do!)
But what if the root definition of one small word was incorrect?
I know for a fact the reason good is good is because someone has decided that they would call this ‘act’ good. But if we go back in time to call ‘bad’ the act of what goodness is…then today when we say bad…we’ll smiled and say thank you…
That has always been a question in my mind. I truly believe in despite our 20% or 30% nature, everything else in us is nurture. I always say you only know what you been taught until you experience or learn otherwise.
An example can be women young as 13 getting married in other parts of the world. In their culture they see nothing wrong with it, because it’s the only thing they know; it’s what they been taught their whole life. I came from parts like that. It wasn’t until I came to North America that I realized how wrong and nasty it was. I know people who still believe it is okay because it’s the only thing they know and accept this concept despite my indifference and influence I try to enlighten them with.
Even now what you are writing is exposing new information that I might either find accurate or wrong base on everything I have been taught beforehand.
This is the case of everything in the world. Everyone have their own sets of definition regarding ‘level’. What is good or evil because there’s no set definition? It has levels, which causes people to disagree on rather something are bad ‘enough’ or good ‘enough’. Our definition of words are based on what we been taught.
It is true that the power of our mind is limited to what we learn because once again there are only certain natural capabilities that we are born with and everything else is moulded into us. A baby can only do so much until it grows and starts seeing and catching the things around him.
If we are left to our own devices, like the girl (forgot her name) that was locked up by her uncle. What did she learn? She had no outside influence, but was able to do the necessities like being able to identify her needs. She didn’t have wants for want is something I believe we are taught. What about the feral kids…who were away from humans but ended up with animal instinct and behaviours; regardless of whether we like or not our environment will always play a big part in us. It’s in our DNA; it’s what makes us who we are.
There’s no longer any ‘free’ thought for every thought we have or idea came from somewhere. We know too much today to find an original idea or concept. Everything has its root and to go back to that root…well how old is the earth and human again? Think about the age and how much information you would have to erase to change things. I don’t think one human life or few hundred could do it.
Even now, what you’re speaking about is ‘teaching’ us something. I think we need modern education because compare to the way things were in the past…well things can’t stay in the past…we have to keep moving forward; it is only human nature to want to move and grow; whether for the best or worse depends on what we been taught. How do you explain serial killers who have had two good sets of parents and moral?
Plus back in the days I think people were easy to mould and shape because they didn’t know much, things were being discovered. If you go back to change the ‘root’ of things…it’ll still be like it is today…the time will past the concept of having a word and its definition will be the same. Plus think about all the words with meaning that changed over time…
How about before an actual language when people communicate with sign and expression. Why was this one expression: a narrow eye decided as a angry glare or a grumbling noise describe as anger? Because one person did that, another saw and follow, it evolved. Just like trends and fads today…why do some last and some don’t is the question?
I don’t think you can take that away. It’s sunk into our very essence.
What you are informing us about is what you been taught. There are almost no longer any original ideas because we have evolved so much so that what is left to discover except question what we already learned? Which is what you are doing right now?
I think it would be very hard to have our own thought when even the thoughts right now we are having has been moulded and taught to us…. the level on it, the gut of it, is that trust we have in us. The explanation to abstracts ideas we have is what allows us to grow one idea into two or more.
OH MY GOSH…this is the longest comment on earth or what?
Interesting topic…makes interesting comments..lol
Oh for sure the ideas outweigh the words, I wouldn’t want to live in a world which would truly believe that to forget what we have learned over the years (as a culture) would be a good thing. I think though, that if a person was never exposed to certain things in life (if for instance, those things never existed) that either they would replace those ideas with others eventually, or never be tainted by the decline of such a harsh reality. In a sense though, reality is only shaped in our modern day by people who depict themselves as ‘teachers’, yet truly hold no sense of anything natural to a human course of evolution.
The things I work with are the attempts to show people the idea that what once may have occured in their mind as an idea, has been given to the world by thinking it. Sure my ideas may not be original in every way, but where else is written an idea of taking who we are and not fearing the world which shapes itself in front of our eyes? People are afraid of everything, because the more they know, the worse the world becomes. Yet that world, is simply their world; for that is simply their mind and the accountance of what they know in relation to the reality of their lives.
I believe that people make their own reality, that a proven fact in relation to two different minds can be in actuality two completely different things if seen from the different patterns of development. With this in mind, simple things like the colour red, or the formation of a letter could in fact be two different things entirely in relation to how a persons view of that thing is procured. It is the sense of how they are taught (the pattern) of how they learned a thing, which recognizes within their own scope of reality, the way a thing truly is.
How can we truly accept anything for what it is, if every view is captured from a different perspective?
That is true…but what happens with knowledge is that the more answer you have the more questions you get…
Do you want to spend your whole life questioning everything around you or accepting certain things just because?
I mean when you think about God…the idea of it is an opinion not sound proven fact like in scientific terms (after all there is more fact in proving that god is not real then he is) but we have that ‘faith’ in us that allows us to accept ‘God’ for what he/she is; to accept a higher being… I always say anything is possible because if we are here today, what’s the limit to other people or things in other planets? Just because we don’t know it for a ‘fact’ doesn’t mean it is not there…
Yes, I agree that we are afraid and I think our fears come from the unknown; the uncertainty life sometimes bring. It’s something that’s hard to get rid of. I think fear is a nature part in us… How does a baby know to cry when a new face comes into its face?
I am afraid of death; I have accepted it for what it is…but still does not take my fear away when I think about how I will no longer be. It’s the physical aspect of it that frightens me sometimes.
It’s hard to get rid of it. Can we? I don’t know but at the same time fear helps us deal and understand things if we open our mind (sadly to say not a lot of people open their minds).
Like again with the baby…Soon as the stranger smiles the fear in the baby either is gone or grows…
It’s true we make our own reality…
I take religion for an example of how the concept of an idea like the root of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have the same fundamental concepts of a monotheist god but somehow because people perceive things different it became something bigger than what it was. The rules, meaning, and practice have change.
Personally I like to think that God started with Judaism, but we didn’t learn, so he sent Jesus, again we didn’t learn so he sent Islam, again same thing…Am I right? Of course not but base on everything I know (been taught and picked up) this is what I think.
Over time, people add things, meaning, and the other idea changes. It’s still there but it changes, that sometimes you wonder what the heck is going on.
I have seen it from time to time, like how I told one person something but by the time it was told to three other people and came back to me, the meaning changed because everyone understood it differently.
How do we change that? Can we change that?
That’s something I would like to see, but it is that something which is the uniqueness and individuality that separates A from B, that causes this. What would have if that is gone? Can the world really be better? Can we be better as human or are we losing that little sense of individuality that we have?
I have learnt that things are not always black and white. There are lots of personal situation that I could use to example how sometimes what you been taught will not always shaped you. And what about the goodness you been taught, where do that goes?
We process so much information everyday without even knowing it…. how do we stop it? And if we come aware of it, can we still stop it? I mean it’s something I know but am still doing it?
A good example is about appearance. I read an interesting article about how you have about 60 seconds to impress your interviewer at a job interview.
It was interesting to know that because the way our minds conjunct (by grouping things into similar senses and concepts in our mind) is why we judge people so quickly. It doesn’t mean we will follow through or treat them the way we think they are but because of what we been taught… we automatically think terrorist when we see an Arab with a turban or something along that line. Or if we see a child with a bruise “abuse’…for all we know the child could have fallen but it’s what we been taught.
We all do it, and if you think you’re different in that you’re not…because it’s the function of our mind.
I don’t know too much about the study of the brain to know rather things such that could be change or now….nature things…not things we learn like rather we learn better by seeing or reading or listening “method”…but the actual program…
Am I going off topic? LOL
I have so much to say that I’m catching the JPD rambling fever …lol…
See what I mean about more questions??? I just learn some interesting ideas and all have is more questions….lol
But you know what…I am happy you posted this because these are things I think about and it’s good to know that “some” of your ideas are on the same page as mind…
First, I’m glad for the whole discussion, and there is lots mentioned above that I could comment upon. But I’ll try to be a good monkey and organize by bananas by their size.
I would say that we do not create reality with our thinking but that we CAN change our own perception of reality, and change it in the minds of others. There ARE truths in the world and they exist whether we perceive them or not. Example:
It is always true that a heavy rock can be used to break-apart a mellon or a gourd to reveal the fruit inside. That is physics. But it wasn’t until monkeys consistently started using rocks as tools to get at food that they collectively “learned” something. Using tools is a nurtured behavior, not instinct.
That seems to be a fact so self-evident, that we stop thinking about. But we SHOULD think about it.
There are many physical facts in the world that cannot be changed by our opinions, and there are also rules in place which determine that one outcome is better than another…. so how is that any different than believing in god?
What I mean is this:
The world of physics is crazy– the closer you look at matter the less there is to actually see. Matter is basically empty space which follows a set of prescribed rules and only appears to be solid if the rules call for that.
If the physical rock that breaks open the gourd is just a set of concepts and rules, and if the intellegent monkey that uses the rock is just responding to a set of outcomes that will either work, or not work, then isn’t everying we peceive in the universe basically just following a hidden structure of rules and outcomes that have no physical presence at all?
There is no particle in physics that you can point to which proclaims one outcome over another.
The is where the word “good” comes into play. It is clearly obvious to us that eating is better than starving. It is clearly good that an arch-bridge over a river is better than a jumbled pile of rocks that serves no purpose. It is better to send an email electonically that it is to send a paper manuscript via pony-express.
MY BELIEF is that goodness is an inherent part of the structure of our entire universe. If that is any different than believing in God, I’d be interested in hearing your opinions!
Nobody else has commented today, so I’ll keep on going! (It’s what I do…)
Sugar said: “I know for a fact the reason good is good is because someone has decided that they would call this ‘act’ good.”
I will disagree with your statement for the rest of my fruitful days! THIS was the problem I was trying to describe in my posts, and perhaps you’ve heard the story before, but…
…if a billion people think it’s a “good idea” to jump off a cliff, would you also jump too? Everyone else is doing it!
Calling something “good” doesn’t make it so. GOODNESS doesn’t care what we name it. It happens without any influence or through the use of words.
But calling something good which isn’t– unsettles us. It makes us feel uncomfortable.
Modern society leaves most of us feeling uncomfortable, I think.
Why would you disagree with my statement?
I believe you misread what I actually wrote because it’s pretty much what your saying…
We are talking about the actual word for ‘act of kindness’ not the actual act….
What I said is fact…someone back in the day decided to call the act of kindness ‘good’ in English….
My point was that it doesn’t matter what you call any sort of ‘act’ because that essence of the action will always be there….
If someone decided to call the act of kindness ‘bad’ then the word bad would not be associated with evil or malicious deed….
I’ am I clear now?
Not sure what you are going on about because that is the point I was making…
It doesn’t matter what you call ‘good’ or ‘bad’ regardless of its name the action is what gives us that sense of rightness or wrongness.
Which is my point that sometimes to change the way of teaching…because really not everything is nurture some things are nature…like that gut feeling you get when you do something wrong or right…
I mean take for an example…a person who grew up in an abusive home and neighbour… ended up committed crime…
Most people always says oh we’ll excuse him because of his childhood or the way he was brought up… but deep inside of us…There’s always that nagging feeling that this is not right but we do it anyway….
There are people who listen to their instinct then others which help making them a better person.
“I would say that we do not create reality with our thinking but that we CAN change our own perception of reality, and change it in the minds of others. There ARE truths in the world and they exist whether we perceive them or not.”
This is true and I do agree. Good example with the monkey and tools…
I have a question before I move forward….
Some people believe that our mind control us…that by thinking ‘good’ thoughts, good things will happen to us. Because every message comes from our brain, if we teach our brain to think joy, when the first surprise hint of pain is shown we can control it.
Is this regarding ‘everything’ not just some stuff but everything in life.
Who do you think of this believe?
Well that’s one of the main points I was trying to make originally with this article.. was that peoples view of a word can be completely opposite to its meaning based off their own personal accountance of what the word means.. or how that person originally was ‘taught’ that word, based off their ‘teachers’ own understanding of it. It’s like taking a beautiful thing and tainting it over hundreds of years to mean a completely different thing. While it’s rooted definitely was originally something else entirely.
The simple act of redefining a word from its root meaning could make for a world of difference, for that word.. leads to another word, and eventually we find that people are actually expressing themselves for how they feel and explaining who they are on terms which others can honestly understand. Instead of getting frustrated and deterred based off common misconceptions of communication.
In response to Sugar’s question “Some people believe that our mind control us…that by thinking ‘good’ thoughts, good things will happen to us”….
I can personally vouch for this as a fact 99% of the time. In 2007 I took a hard look at my life and realized it wasn’t working, and that complaining about 90% of events that are beyond my control was only making ME feel worse along the way. (Complaining to people doesn’t affect anything, it just annoys the people around you, while the act of complaining is devastating and demoralizing the person doing it.)
I began to realize that most information is neutral– and unless you’re getting hit by a train every day of your life, then there are probably goods in there too that you were just overlooking. I didn’t do it by “thinking positive thoughts” I did it by questioning and challenging my negative ones.
It’s a topic too long to really address in a comment-trail, and I thank ABlue111 for letting me prattle-on here.
If Heavenskyy has a category for “letter writing” I might post a copy of an email I sent to a friend that I got to know in 2007. I had already known her for 7 years before that but when my attitude changed in 2007 she suddenly sought me out and started to engage me in the most amazing conversations about life, and I am a better human being for knowing her today.
There’s way more to my story than this, but my short answer is this: how your think of yourself GREATLY affects how other people think of you, and DOES change outcomes and very real world for yourself and everyone around you.
(that was my short answer, BTW)
How would one know the ‘root’ definition of word when we have like what you said…..many people and many concepts and definition of that word…
Where would you get the truth from?
With what you just mentioned, do you think you have the correct definition?
I mean your statement made me realize that you might have perceived things differently as well.
I’m sure you can probaby put it in the ‘other’ category…