Hello-Goodbye

 

Hello-Goodbye

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. 

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The fairy tale of the “thinker” and its thoughts, a master and a slave

The fairy tale of the “thinker” and its thoughts, a master and a slave

“OUT THERE” and “IN HERE”

The human species adapted to a “thinker” and “knower” inner universe, so to speak, as the living universe “out there” is translated into a mental mini-universe in an “in here” illusory world of things and ideas in the tiny corner of the head,

The development of the human species into the modern age is complex. Eons of slow evolution by natural selection and also by human thinking bypassing natural selection. The capability to think takes the human brain beyond the 5 sense organs territory into a world of imagination and imagemaking that radically transform natural environments.

Things refer to what is material and ideas refer to what is imagined. Things and ideas being seemingly separate, naming and names are bridges to connect one to the other, as both things and ideas share the same body and brain, the same language, the same symbolic thinking, so on. Which may explain ongoing question on which came first, things or ideas. Or when “mind” (the word is not the thing) appeared.

The world of “in here” is private to an individual body, and as such, perceptions, understanding, communications, etc, are also private to that individual. So life as a human can be full of potential intricasies, but also potential anomalies. Especially because the human species development is different from other species as it takes much longer, with different stages, from the unborn to new born infant to adulthood.

Despite modern technology providing the opportunity for people to be “in touch” with one another, seemingly or obviously the opposite is also true. That the same technology can at the same time also promote opportunity for conflict in a world divided – naturally and not – by individualities; by the grip of pleasurable experiences; by aspirations, especially for the more and the better; by competition between human nature and the bag of morality; by languages, environment, races, ethnicities, beliefs, economy, politics, education, wealth, so on and on. As such, the state of the world is also greatly one of separation in the same species, for its adapting thinking to thinking “in here” is what life is. As such, transforming “in here” into a separate universe, rather than the mini-universe being a private tool for navigating life.

In a large, divided world, there is the urgent need to see it without separation because, as the contextual saying goes, “no man is an island” (again, the word is not the thing).

Below (A-D) is an “in here” example of a mini-universe as a tool of dominance. Maybe this example is an extreme example but maybe also a very common thinking anomaly in the human species. Clearly seeing an anomaly in oneself, the self-revelation might free an individual from a corruption of thinking.

THINGS AND IDEAS

Before the human species developed thinking, the evolution of the brain and the material ruled what is living. As the sense organs and perceptions evolved, these dominated the evolution of “reality”. The conception of things and ideas must have waited for thinking to evolve, else there is also no sense of separation as there nothing to separate, no sense of past, present, future, no idea of an individual, group, culture, categories, etc. Maybe images and inklings of imagination that is materialistic led to the evolution of “intelligence” into the process of thinking, the use of memory, languages, communications, ideas, so on, opening doors to complex evolutions, and expansive world of “in here”.

As the evolution of languages led to the radical progress of social communications, information are shared widely in its different forms, especially words. Perception of words can create problems however in the private worlds of “in here” because of the distinction between things and ideas.. “Understanding” things are quite simple but interpretating ideas can be complicated. So perception of a word referring to something material is a lot simpler than when it is referring to an idea.
One can easily grab, own and talk about a thing.

A caveat about words is “the word is not the thing”. This however is commonly unknowingly overlooked as it is quite obvious so even the brain is not adapted to give warnings when a word is perceived as a thing rather than what it represents – when a word talking is a word walking, so to speak. Maybe a good test of reality is to ask oneself what is it like to experience a word, especially esteemed words like “Self”, “consciousness”, “mind”,”me”, “I”, category words from the bag of morality, etc. As it is a fact that human experience can be strongly biased by what is pleasurable, by what is the more and the better, by what one likes to hear, etc. As such communication, inner or external, can be deceptive unknowingly. Not a simple “reality” problem because as the world turns, words are also used as tools of persuasion.

A – “I AM.” Indeed? An eye-closer?

Crudely, an idea of the existence of an I by an I. To the question “where is the I?” begging for an answer: in the where is a place: “in here”, in the what is a thing, and in the who is the naming by I of itself : Self. The materialization of a human in the paradox of thinking to think itself into “existence”, the idea as a separate thing in the illusory world of “in here”.

Thus also, in the materialization of the “Self” is an adaptation by humans to be the center of the “in here” mini-universe and as such, the ghost is born in the machinery of thinking, so to speak.

B – “I AM GOOD, I AM RIGHT”…a concrete conclusion?

Values are not “out there” but are “in here” as idealistic measurements. When “I AM!” is onto the-more-and-the-better, a catch with precious value for the identity of the Self, hardly nothing better than from the bag of morality: “I am good, I am right”.

The assertion by the self-centerred I is concrete, and as such is presumptous. It can not come as a living conclusion but from a materialization from ignorance and arrogance. Is “I know” not far behind in such knowing, especially when also cognizant of names and naming?

C – “I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. JUST DO WHAT I TELL YOU”….a promise?, with intent of total control?

The human species social order is a ladder – upper and lower, top and bottom. young and old, so on. Unfortunately, what may be natural ladder – when one’s climb upper is as normal as a descent lower, being the sky is the sky as the ground is the ground – to the Self the position or responsibilities in the ladder is pyschologically and factually of “importance”, especially in the valuing of “success”. But be it what it may be……

In human social orders, an ordinary commitment between individuals is common: between parents and children; the rich and the poor; employer and employees; politicians and whoever; businesses, governments, royalties, tribal leaders, authoritarians, and their followers, their “own” people, so on. As it is, any intent to dominate may be unknowingly not obvious, like master/slave human relationship, And may be, surprisingly, by “I am good, I am right”.

D – “I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOU HERE!. DON’T EVER COME HERE.”…an articulation or outburst?

On to an extreme of “the word is the thing”: the master asserting its total ownership of the usefulness of the slave. The assertion self-protected by grabbing and owning “I am good, I am right” from the bag of morality as a thing. Asking for the meaning of the words is meaningless as the master wears “I am good, I am right” with authority, as a license or badge, so to speak.

In this case, the situation is one of total control of a master over a thing, its slave, which is not a matter of “understanding” what morality is. So in its rigid situation, the slave is asking for trouble in saying anything the master does not want to hear as it is a threat to its control. And when a bad situation becomes worse the response to anything it does not want to hear is the same: “I don’t want to see you here, don’t ever come here.” Such an outburst to get rid of the slave because the slave’s presence has become unbearable.

The reaction is to deny the slave its name and presence at the least. A direct and simple reaction, not because of contradictions in a mindset. So it is also not hypocrisy. Rather it is normal and natural as it follows the state of mind that is in delusion, and indeed it is self-delusional. In a natural state of a sickness of being self-trapped, the master is a slave to itself. As such, self-slavery and the master is one – nowhere to go, the self-slave state of the master is in control .

As such to see oneself in this state is an eye-opener, a waking up to one’s reality – though not quite simple when in a grip of a strong conditioning.

E- ALL THERE IS – a living “out there” universe?, or a static “in here” mini-universe?

The paradox of the nature of thinking: the living presence of “out there” into the “living” identities and recognitions of “in here”, “out there” universe into “in here” mini-universe, all-there-is into the Self. And so on. In short: the living presence into a dead thing. The nature of thinking transforming the living universe “out there” into the imagination of an “in here”,

Yet all is well, as it appears it is all mind. There is science doing its thing, and to know it all. There is spirituality, a god doing it all and knowing it all.

Yet still, what is missing is what is always is – the untouchable and unknowable, not of things and not of ideas. for it is not of the mind, not “in here”, just “out there”, wordless. Unreachable by the senses what, who, how,where, when, and by something from the blue, the why of imagination. It does not matter, never mind – such “reality”.

A look outside is a path to nowhere. It is the price to be wordless.

The energy of the Self is the energy of experiencing the Self. The Self can live its everyday life as a knower, as an owner, a master, a giver, a lover, a seeker of knowledge, a seeker of eternity, a success, or whatever. But still as always, the Self being a slave to itself, the thinker and its thoughts in the illusion of the Self, into a delusion by the Self.