littlebee wrote:
I did not see any cat pictures by you at the time I wrote this, though in my comment in the edit (which is not in your quote), one of the pictures I was referring to was your cats playing cards picture and also the picture of two wild cats fighting and maybe the picture of the cat with the glasses, all of which I did not see at the time I wrote the original message. Those pictures my message would not really apply to as they suggest more idea content and not just a kind of totem. Like I said, there has been a shift in terms of idea content, as more individual meaning is attributed in these particular pictures, which makes sense, as that is natural to happen as people eventual would need more variety.
True . . . although cat totems are satisfying.
Yes, a cat totem can be satisfying on some level--definitely agreed. In the beginning the original little string of cat pictures did kind of make a totem, and that was a thing in itself, but you can only add so many carved inmages to a totem. After that it kind of topples over and the prinmitive society reverts back to the kind of disintegration the totem was trying to protect against...or whatever...but in these societies that make actual totems, they know how to do....it is structured into the functioning of the society, so orgabnized and integrated...Quote:
Imo I am expressing some very important concepts in my messages which if understood can bring happiness and freedom from suffering to a great many people.
Do tell . . .
I am thinking of presenting a theory of autism that makes actual sense, rather than just saying people were born this way...I have it all figured out....but also am also rethinking my participation on WP and wondering if I even though I am surely as autistic as the next person....this has nothing to do with any kind of drama that occurred around my sincere participation, ...Quote:
Of course everyone wants to feel warm and cozy and experience lack of conflict and natural affection, myself included....that is a good aim, but in terms of enquiry into ideas I do not believe it is particularly beneficial to avoid looking at material that comes up as part of an enquiry and instead tries to deflect from it. Yes, it can be possible way to diffuse tension, but that pattern, especially if resorted to a lot, can be harmful. Imo putting ones head into the sand is not the way to be free from suffering, though sometimes it may be necessary to do so for a certain person in a certain context. An ideal for me would be to strive to process material on a conscious rather than an unconscious level (not to imply that I think the placement of every single cat picture was not conscious, as I think the set of various pictures posted by one person indicates a lot of insight and deliberate altruistic intent toward ALL the people participating here..
Never underestimate the interlude.
It's deligfhtful comments such as this that may keep me around:-)Quote:
As far as putting ones head in the sand, you are talking to a person over seventy and seem to be implying I have never experienced the various aspects of having my own head under the sand and so know little about it, but I do know a whole big lot lot about it. It is not good to live ones life with ones head under the sand and only leads to horrible suffering, though it may feel good in a given moment. It is better to see the light and live ones life with great mental clarity, with a sharpness and acuity of brain function (and the compassion that seems to spontaneously occur with mental clarity), not that I have done that most of my life or am doing it all of the time even now, but basically my head is out of the sand, for which I feel profound gratitude.
You're over 70!?! Wow. My Mom is 71. I'm 43. Still have a long way to go I guess
Most of my development and understanding came in the last two or three years, especially the last year. Now I am beginning to think/feel that in some sense I may know just about everything that it is possible to know......this is not to imply that all people at a certain age get to know "everything," and I did spend my entire life working diligently to lay the foundation for what I finally did get to understand, and of course there is always more to learn about choo choo trains or learn span-ish or whatever, and also a person can always learn how to communicate more effectively...I still have more to learn about that, obviously....
p.s. To anybody who wants to read something really fascinating--a fictional account of a 'modern' version of a primitive society, read this. It does contain a spoiler, but imo this is a movie a person would not want to see anyway....also, though it talks about honey-making and an older person who is the head of this society, this person and this kind of 'honey' making is not me, even though my name is littlebee...that part is just a coincidence... I am more akin to the character played by Nicholas Cage (who thinks he is so smart, though in reality he is really not because he thought he had it all figured out:-) this does in some way sound like me,, though I am a lot smarter that he was...