23 Aug 2005
Back to school
Well i'm going to University in a week's time. My summer holidays passed by pretty fast. Despite all the things man makes to save time, make things more convenient, we seem to be having less and less time to spare. The days just fly by now, in the end we may be just using too much time up trying to save it.
18 Aug 2005
Self and the "Self" We Present to the World
"Be Yourself"
I find that incredibly difficult. If I want to impress someone, I certainly wont be myself, I'll just be all the 'good' things in me around them. Of course when i'm with someone i'm comfortable with I would probably be a lot more me and a lot less what I would want them to think I am. But I dont think I ever give anyone the whole picture. In fact, I dont really know the whole myself. I feel quite a lot of us barely scratch the surface of self awareness.
I wonder if I will ever know myself, and have the courage to let others see that 'self'. I feel much too self concious most of the time to show the world anything but what I'd like to be. If I ever find out who I really am, I wonder if i'll like him.
I find that incredibly difficult. If I want to impress someone, I certainly wont be myself, I'll just be all the 'good' things in me around them. Of course when i'm with someone i'm comfortable with I would probably be a lot more me and a lot less what I would want them to think I am. But I dont think I ever give anyone the whole picture. In fact, I dont really know the whole myself. I feel quite a lot of us barely scratch the surface of self awareness.
I wonder if I will ever know myself, and have the courage to let others see that 'self'. I feel much too self concious most of the time to show the world anything but what I'd like to be. If I ever find out who I really am, I wonder if i'll like him.
13 Aug 2005
Population Control and Natural Selection
Overpopulation is such a problem today, and yet we continue to allow ourselves to spead to every corner of the planet. And we continue to strive to keep as many people alive as we can, seeing life as sacred isnt wrong, but seeing how people are spreading uncontrollably, and destroying so many other species as we go, the sanctity of life seems to be the last thing on our minds.
Modern medicine is supposed to let us all live longer and healthier, but does it? Diseases continue to mutate and we get more and more deadly viruses and bacterium. Which we counter with more and more of our own medicines. THe cycle continues. Some time in the future I feel there must be a limit, where either the diseases win, wiping out most of the human race in one mighty epidemic, or humans manage to find the answer to preventing disease and spread out over the planet and most likely to other planets too. Seeing as they are always one step ahead of us, with humans struggling to find cures to new diseases, i cant help feel a little pessimistic.
And pharmaceutical companies are more interested in making money then curing people (well thats the impression i get). The drugs they produce stop the symptoms from showing up, but are they really curing us?
Getting back to overpopulation and natural selection (yes that is the title of this post!) medicine has completely screwed up nature's way of removing those who are not fit to survive. Ok that sounds really terrible of me, but its true, and i'm not saying we should just let those we are not fit/get sick die or anything, but I see disease as nature's attempt to stabilize the population of living things. The effects of our messing with nature and evolution (if you believe in it) will certainly be seen one day, but not in our lifetimes.
Modern medicine is supposed to let us all live longer and healthier, but does it? Diseases continue to mutate and we get more and more deadly viruses and bacterium. Which we counter with more and more of our own medicines. THe cycle continues. Some time in the future I feel there must be a limit, where either the diseases win, wiping out most of the human race in one mighty epidemic, or humans manage to find the answer to preventing disease and spread out over the planet and most likely to other planets too. Seeing as they are always one step ahead of us, with humans struggling to find cures to new diseases, i cant help feel a little pessimistic.
And pharmaceutical companies are more interested in making money then curing people (well thats the impression i get). The drugs they produce stop the symptoms from showing up, but are they really curing us?
Getting back to overpopulation and natural selection (yes that is the title of this post!) medicine has completely screwed up nature's way of removing those who are not fit to survive. Ok that sounds really terrible of me, but its true, and i'm not saying we should just let those we are not fit/get sick die or anything, but I see disease as nature's attempt to stabilize the population of living things. The effects of our messing with nature and evolution (if you believe in it) will certainly be seen one day, but not in our lifetimes.
What's the Truth?
I once believed there would always be an underlying truth in everything. Well that was a long time ago...Now days I think there is only what we make of the world. I mean no matter what, we just cant escape subjectivity. There are no unbiased, objective viewers of a matter. Everyone is human, and thats not a bad thing, but it is definitely not something that is impartial. People make the truth for themselves; people see what they want to see.
Personally i think this is what allows some people to over come extreme situations, they just dont see it as something hopeless like a 'normal' person would. Our outlooks on life determine how we act. they say the greatest illusion of all is 'free will'. To a certain extent, i believe it is true, there are so many things in our past which mold us to what we are now, that our responses to situations 'force' us into the paths we 'choose'. So even if we do have a choice, the way we have lived our lives make us lose our free will, makes us slaves to ourselves. We do what we would always do, preferences and favourites make us lose much of our unpredictibility. which is where i think the line is drawn, because in the end if we do something unpredictable perhaps that is a sign we still retain some of our freedom after all.
Personally i think this is what allows some people to over come extreme situations, they just dont see it as something hopeless like a 'normal' person would. Our outlooks on life determine how we act. they say the greatest illusion of all is 'free will'. To a certain extent, i believe it is true, there are so many things in our past which mold us to what we are now, that our responses to situations 'force' us into the paths we 'choose'. So even if we do have a choice, the way we have lived our lives make us lose our free will, makes us slaves to ourselves. We do what we would always do, preferences and favourites make us lose much of our unpredictibility. which is where i think the line is drawn, because in the end if we do something unpredictable perhaps that is a sign we still retain some of our freedom after all.
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