Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "Pursuit of Wonder"
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I didn't listen to the video, because I have "no 'real' respect" for nihilists, and before you ask me to define "real", please have a look at the title.
Nihilism is nothing but a more sophisticated mental defense mechanism, shielding various anxiety prone personality types, typically passive-aggressive and generally cowardly. But don't take my word for it, test it.
What's the most immediate question to ask a nihilist? Well, ask it and be sure to make it personal, you'll see most of them flare up with significant gusto, offense and anger — demonstrating suppressed feelings they for personal reasons deem utterly reprehensible.
Just ask them this: "Well, if you have no real reason to live, why are you hanging around here, taking up space?"
Maybe they'll introduce you to a few (real) reasons you shouldn't be so rude and ought not ask such direct and personal questions, who knows...
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1. We know a lot about why we sleep. Fx.: The brain has a slightly higher metabolic rate, but is relieved of reactive thoughts and complicated motor-calculations. It's also free from selecting among sensory input and reprieved from the necessity of suppressing those deemed less important.
2. Instead it's free to dream, and much of this revolves around resolving loose ends of the day by running different scenarios.
Dreams also organize new learnings into the hierarchy of personal experiences.
It's very easy to discern what dreams do by skipping sleep a few days. Lacking the restoration of the calmer mental states, an increasing mental alertness sets in. Perception becomes less selective. Most people become hypervocal and hyperactive. Gradually learned inhibitions weaken and the person starts appearing slightly manic. Muscle tone increases and so does metabolic rate, albeit gradually.
The lack of integration of new learning eventually shows up as deteriorating judgement and the more basic, animal instincts become more prevalent at the cost of social skills.
3. Consciousness is not a "what", though. It is much, much more essential.
Consciousness is the only absolute no-thing in the universe and uses no time – is in effect "eternal".
It's not a product of anything or any thing. It is entangled with all matter, whether in the organized form in organisms or less organized forms of "pure matter" – which is of course never really pure.
4. Yes, we most certainly do have free will, but we also have fate. There are absolutely no restrictions on our free will whatsoever! Some even willfully choose to live most of their existence without ever exercising it. But truly free will necessitates awareness of consciousness...
5. Things all have their distinctive reality on different levels of existence, but no reality on any level can be said to be objective, as all objectivity is irretrievably entangled with the innumerable and slightly different perceptions by subjects.
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I completely disagree. It most certainly matters "what Life is all about"!
It has also been answered many times by many different men, Alan Watts is quoted herein, but I would prefer Jesus for depth and Eckhart Tolle for contemporaneous clarity. To begin to understand, one needs embrace the concept of the eternal Now:
At Julian times, the measurements and consensus about time began to be explored and we eventually began to take this useful method of measuring changes for real – as something more than a mere method of measurement...
All the scientific advances which flowed off this method, highly useful for coordination and prediction of season, gradually lead us to forget the essential, basic truth of the Eternal Now – until Einstein laid the groundwork for quantum physics!
With its apparent paradox of entanglement came as a stark reminder of phenomena incompatible with the concept of time as a concrete physical manifestation like onto mass/energy.
When challenged on his guidance by the learned priesthood of his time with the question "who are you to contradict the teachings of Abraham?" Jesus answered "I am, before Abraham was!"
It is quite clear from almost all Jesu parables that he did not identify with his mind or his body.
He knew himself to be the offspring of The One Consciousness. He was, and knew himself to be, conscious awareness. He knew what Buddha had realized, that everyone and everything were offsprings of The Eternal Creator.
It follows that the will of the Father of All Things might be good to know and adhere to.
And what did Jesus teach? Awareness, what else?
What Eckhart Tolle has to say about Life's purpose with its eternal changing of forms, you can find out for yourself. He has a channel on YouTube.
Oh, and btw.: The illusion of linear time is what keeps scientists as fine as Feynman fixated on the glaring illusion of The One Big Bang.
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