OT: does it all sometimes seem pointless

[briansd1]

[quote=CognitiveDissonance]Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”[/quote]

Yeah, but it’s a measure of survival and thriving within that society, however sick it may be. It’s the only one that we know and the only that really matters.

Krishnamurti calls for a revolution of the individual psyche. That’s possible, but one individual won’t change society. And it’s unlikely that everybody will experience that same revolution at the same time.

As humans, we are bound to repeat our past mistakes over and over again. The best we can hope for is incremental improvements (mostly driven by technology) to our conditions.

Maintaining that society is ultimately the product of the interactions of individuals, he held that fundamental change in society can emerge only through freely undertaken radical change in the individual. Krishnamurti stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and posited that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti

[Oxford]

LIFE IS

Street version:
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

PIGG version:
Life is 12.865% a causation factor involving random events occurring in an existential fulcrum and intersected by continual rises and falls of attitudinal energy and 83.125% how ones presynaptic neurons react to a chemical called a neurotransmitter that binds to receptors located in the postsynaptic cell, usually embedded in the plasma membrane. Binding of the neurotransmitter to a receptor can affect the postsynaptic cell in a wide variety of ways. The remaining percent? We have no fucking idea.

OX
…swami

[Oxford]

LIFE IS

Street version:
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

PIGG version:
Life is 12.865% a causation factor involving random events occurring in an existential fulcrum and intersected by continual rises and falls of attitudinal energy and 83.125% how ones presynaptic neurons react to a chemical called a neurotransmitter that binds to receptors located in the postsynaptic cell, usually embedded in the plasma membrane. Binding of the neurotransmitter to a receptor can affect the postsynaptic cell in a wide variety of ways. The remaining percent? We have no fucking idea.

OX
…swami

[Oxford]

LIFE IS

Street version:
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

PIGG version:
Life is 12.865% a causation factor involving random events occurring in an existential fulcrum and intersected by continual rises and falls of attitudinal energy and 83.125% how ones presynaptic neurons react to a chemical called a neurotransmitter that binds to receptors located in the postsynaptic cell, usually embedded in the plasma membrane. Binding of the neurotransmitter to a receptor can affect the postsynaptic cell in a wide variety of ways. The remaining percent? We have no fucking idea.

OX
…swami

[Oxford]

LIFE IS

Street version:
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

PIGG version:
Life is 12.865% a causation factor involving random events occurring in an existential fulcrum and intersected by continual rises and falls of attitudinal energy and 83.125% how ones presynaptic neurons react to a chemical called a neurotransmitter that binds to receptors located in the postsynaptic cell, usually embedded in the plasma membrane. Binding of the neurotransmitter to a receptor can affect the postsynaptic cell in a wide variety of ways. The remaining percent? We have no fucking idea.

OX
…swami

[Oxford]

LIFE IS

Street version:
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

PIGG version:
Life is 12.865% a causation factor involving random events occurring in an existential fulcrum and intersected by continual rises and falls of attitudinal energy and 83.125% how ones presynaptic neurons react to a chemical called a neurotransmitter that binds to receptors located in the postsynaptic cell, usually embedded in the plasma membrane. Binding of the neurotransmitter to a receptor can affect the postsynaptic cell in a wide variety of ways. The remaining percent? We have no fucking idea.

OX
…swami

[edna_mode]

Boredom and pointlessness. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, only the human mind could have invented these concepts because if we were constantly plugged into the miracle of everyday life, we would be paralyzed with amazement, a stupid grin permanently tattooed on our faces.

I drive in a car that took the collective efforts of hundreds if not thousands of people I’ll never meet, and trust my life in it EVERY DAY hurtling at freeway speeds on roads more strangers build and maintain. I drink tap water and buy groceries with the same blaze attitude. Oh, even if I think I’m being aware about those things, it’s because I’m using the opinions and input from even more people that I believe to be like-minded who have my best interests at heart — drinking from BPA-free bottles and eating organic vegan food.

All are perception.

But since this is a data blog, a bonus data visualization: what is consciousness?

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/

[edna_mode]

Boredom and pointlessness. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, only the human mind could have invented these concepts because if we were constantly plugged into the miracle of everyday life, we would be paralyzed with amazement, a stupid grin permanently tattooed on our faces.

I drive in a car that took the collective efforts of hundreds if not thousands of people I’ll never meet, and trust my life in it EVERY DAY hurtling at freeway speeds on roads more strangers build and maintain. I drink tap water and buy groceries with the same blaze attitude. Oh, even if I think I’m being aware about those things, it’s because I’m using the opinions and input from even more people that I believe to be like-minded who have my best interests at heart — drinking from BPA-free bottles and eating organic vegan food.

All are perception.

But since this is a data blog, a bonus data visualization: what is consciousness?

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/

[edna_mode]

Boredom and pointlessness. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, only the human mind could have invented these concepts because if we were constantly plugged into the miracle of everyday life, we would be paralyzed with amazement, a stupid grin permanently tattooed on our faces.

I drive in a car that took the collective efforts of hundreds if not thousands of people I’ll never meet, and trust my life in it EVERY DAY hurtling at freeway speeds on roads more strangers build and maintain. I drink tap water and buy groceries with the same blaze attitude. Oh, even if I think I’m being aware about those things, it’s because I’m using the opinions and input from even more people that I believe to be like-minded who have my best interests at heart — drinking from BPA-free bottles and eating organic vegan food.

All are perception.

But since this is a data blog, a bonus data visualization: what is consciousness?

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/

[edna_mode]

Boredom and pointlessness. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, only the human mind could have invented these concepts because if we were constantly plugged into the miracle of everyday life, we would be paralyzed with amazement, a stupid grin permanently tattooed on our faces.

I drive in a car that took the collective efforts of hundreds if not thousands of people I’ll never meet, and trust my life in it EVERY DAY hurtling at freeway speeds on roads more strangers build and maintain. I drink tap water and buy groceries with the same blaze attitude. Oh, even if I think I’m being aware about those things, it’s because I’m using the opinions and input from even more people that I believe to be like-minded who have my best interests at heart — drinking from BPA-free bottles and eating organic vegan food.

All are perception.

But since this is a data blog, a bonus data visualization: what is consciousness?

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/

[edna_mode]

Boredom and pointlessness. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, only the human mind could have invented these concepts because if we were constantly plugged into the miracle of everyday life, we would be paralyzed with amazement, a stupid grin permanently tattooed on our faces.

I drive in a car that took the collective efforts of hundreds if not thousands of people I’ll never meet, and trust my life in it EVERY DAY hurtling at freeway speeds on roads more strangers build and maintain. I drink tap water and buy groceries with the same blaze attitude. Oh, even if I think I’m being aware about those things, it’s because I’m using the opinions and input from even more people that I believe to be like-minded who have my best interests at heart — drinking from BPA-free bottles and eating organic vegan food.

All are perception.

But since this is a data blog, a bonus data visualization: what is consciousness?

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/

[scaredyclassic]

Just because there is a lot going on doesn’t mean all of it isn’t pointless

[scaredyclassic]

Just because there is a lot going on doesn’t mean all of it isn’t pointless

[scaredyclassic]

Just because there is a lot going on doesn’t mean all of it isn’t pointless

[scaredyclassic]

Just because there is a lot going on doesn’t mean all of it isn’t pointless

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