Asmodeus
03-17-2002, 05:34 PM
What is the nature of thought? Is it just to think of interesting things to tell your friends so they will look up to you in awe and wonder? Or is thought the beginnings to ideas that better ourselves and our situations? A way of expressing doubts, assurances, and conflicts so as we can learn from them? Or is it a past-time for us to whittle away the dark hours of the night to keep our minds off of Keat’s “Lions, Tigers, and Bears”?
Nope and yes.
Thought is the evincing of dreams and making them reality. Thought is what drives us to the place where we want to go and who we want to be when we get there.
Thought originally is an idea. Then the idea expands and becomes a reality, or an institution. And that is my question: has the thought that has gone into this place become an institution? Cold, brittle, and humorless?
Just as thought is also a means to an end. A way to keep ourselves growing as individuals instead of stagnating into a reactionary fool- fearing change because in change, the fool knows that the simple life will change because the fool will have to think for itself. Being comfortable with the status quo, in this stance, is a terrible thing. A thing to be avoided.
Just as thought was given to this place, the Tribe. In the beginning, a thought was written down and then discussed by all- the good points along with the bad- to the betterment of the idea itself; where to take from the original point into new echelons of reasoning.
I hope I am not the only one here to say that I have learned alot about other people’s ideas and thoughts and how to understand them better.
Yet, I have found of late, more flaming than thinking going on. I do not hold myself above this recrimination, it is just an observation. Skalie and I have had our disagreements, that I freely admit. I wish it had not of happened, but it did. And just because he is a squid eating, swabbie, sailor boy, I don’t hold that against him. :D Just kidding.
What happened to the Tribe in general discussing ideas as per se equals? What happened when Kol would write something about the nature of reality and the Esther-Swartzchild terminus that surrounds us all, while the rest of us would scratch our heads and nod? What happened to MAC’s subtle allusions to a meaning greater than the mere words he used to express them? Or RW’s lack of respect for the government, with correlating points for reference, instead of just a tirade and everyone’s bashing of him thereof? Or my own little introspective ditties of nonsense for others to ponder the true meaning of?
Just as I can name but a few, there are many other examples of this of late. As I am sure each and everyone of you can attest.
Is this the evolution of thought as has been originally discussed by Aristotle and Zarathustra? A thought begins and goes through the critical thinking stage and changes, based upon the person’s own mind and experiences. The thought itself goes through evolution to better attune itself to the life or reality at hand.
Or is it that the idea evolves to suit their own fancy, be it for good or ill? I leave that to each of you to answer in your own ways and minds.
Are we no better then the masses to whom most of us hold at a distance?
Or is it the age old adage called a “pecking order” trying to re-assert itself? As Keat’s said to his brother, “...aggression and the energy they personify are fine.” Yet, he was unsure if the direction of those energies were pointed to the right medium.
Are our energies pointing in the right medium?
Nope and yes.
Thought is the evincing of dreams and making them reality. Thought is what drives us to the place where we want to go and who we want to be when we get there.
Thought originally is an idea. Then the idea expands and becomes a reality, or an institution. And that is my question: has the thought that has gone into this place become an institution? Cold, brittle, and humorless?
Just as thought is also a means to an end. A way to keep ourselves growing as individuals instead of stagnating into a reactionary fool- fearing change because in change, the fool knows that the simple life will change because the fool will have to think for itself. Being comfortable with the status quo, in this stance, is a terrible thing. A thing to be avoided.
Just as thought was given to this place, the Tribe. In the beginning, a thought was written down and then discussed by all- the good points along with the bad- to the betterment of the idea itself; where to take from the original point into new echelons of reasoning.
I hope I am not the only one here to say that I have learned alot about other people’s ideas and thoughts and how to understand them better.
Yet, I have found of late, more flaming than thinking going on. I do not hold myself above this recrimination, it is just an observation. Skalie and I have had our disagreements, that I freely admit. I wish it had not of happened, but it did. And just because he is a squid eating, swabbie, sailor boy, I don’t hold that against him. :D Just kidding.
What happened to the Tribe in general discussing ideas as per se equals? What happened when Kol would write something about the nature of reality and the Esther-Swartzchild terminus that surrounds us all, while the rest of us would scratch our heads and nod? What happened to MAC’s subtle allusions to a meaning greater than the mere words he used to express them? Or RW’s lack of respect for the government, with correlating points for reference, instead of just a tirade and everyone’s bashing of him thereof? Or my own little introspective ditties of nonsense for others to ponder the true meaning of?
Just as I can name but a few, there are many other examples of this of late. As I am sure each and everyone of you can attest.
Is this the evolution of thought as has been originally discussed by Aristotle and Zarathustra? A thought begins and goes through the critical thinking stage and changes, based upon the person’s own mind and experiences. The thought itself goes through evolution to better attune itself to the life or reality at hand.
Or is it that the idea evolves to suit their own fancy, be it for good or ill? I leave that to each of you to answer in your own ways and minds.
Are we no better then the masses to whom most of us hold at a distance?
Or is it the age old adage called a “pecking order” trying to re-assert itself? As Keat’s said to his brother, “...aggression and the energy they personify are fine.” Yet, he was unsure if the direction of those energies were pointed to the right medium.
Are our energies pointing in the right medium?