I'm coming in blind, but with faith that you're still out there
Posted by SilentScream 4 years, 4 months ago to The Gulch: Introductions
The link I followed said 2015 but especially with what 2020 has been ushering in, I'm sure there's more people now than ever like me who are finally seeing how the game is rigged & asking "Who is John Galt?"
There's SO many people out there desperate for a meaning & purpose that they were never shown how to find, snakes eating their own tails with a wild look in their eyes once all innocence is gone & no value was found or given. Generations have now been raised un-naturally bombarded with entertainment & marketing that knows them better than they know themselves & encourages addiction to effectively gain complacent compliance. By parents & teachers who didn't have enough time or care to show them how to tame & control their animal instincts (to devour everything & plant no seeds, saying "Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die!") who were never taught how to find, activate, and cultivate those demonstrably superior problem solving capabilities that empowered us to eliminate anything that posed a threat to humanity & rise up to the top of the food chain. The affect this has caused is a world full of broken NPCs (non-player characters) bumping into walls for lack of these problem solving capabilities while those who HAVE learned how to cultivate their own skills and value (& how it's even more in our own self-interests to value & build each other up) now seem to be disappearing & harder to find.
I want to learn & find more people like Jordan Peterson who are searching for the most fundamental and far-reaching truths that can be found to add more tools they can use to build more value in themselves and others that can be exchanged more sustainably & symbiotically. Making knowledge live & keeping it alive by reading something worth writing about or writing something worth reading about as well as working on ways to solve specific problems. I want to find more healthy perspectives to consider, find the good things about you that I might be able to absorb without taking them away, & find your flaws to guard myself against any "honest" lies slipping through the gates of my sanctuary. I want to wrestle with you until I win, then help you up and show you where you slipped (but only if/when you're willing/able to find & see your own blinders) to level the playing field and play again, making you more able to beat me so you can turn around and teach me not to slip. Freedom of speech is slipping away and the social media platforms used by family and friends has become a waste-land of largely useless content, so I'm searching for greener pastures.
There's SO many people out there desperate for a meaning & purpose that they were never shown how to find, snakes eating their own tails with a wild look in their eyes once all innocence is gone & no value was found or given. Generations have now been raised un-naturally bombarded with entertainment & marketing that knows them better than they know themselves & encourages addiction to effectively gain complacent compliance. By parents & teachers who didn't have enough time or care to show them how to tame & control their animal instincts (to devour everything & plant no seeds, saying "Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die!") who were never taught how to find, activate, and cultivate those demonstrably superior problem solving capabilities that empowered us to eliminate anything that posed a threat to humanity & rise up to the top of the food chain. The affect this has caused is a world full of broken NPCs (non-player characters) bumping into walls for lack of these problem solving capabilities while those who HAVE learned how to cultivate their own skills and value (& how it's even more in our own self-interests to value & build each other up) now seem to be disappearing & harder to find.
I want to learn & find more people like Jordan Peterson who are searching for the most fundamental and far-reaching truths that can be found to add more tools they can use to build more value in themselves and others that can be exchanged more sustainably & symbiotically. Making knowledge live & keeping it alive by reading something worth writing about or writing something worth reading about as well as working on ways to solve specific problems. I want to find more healthy perspectives to consider, find the good things about you that I might be able to absorb without taking them away, & find your flaws to guard myself against any "honest" lies slipping through the gates of my sanctuary. I want to wrestle with you until I win, then help you up and show you where you slipped (but only if/when you're willing/able to find & see your own blinders) to level the playing field and play again, making you more able to beat me so you can turn around and teach me not to slip. Freedom of speech is slipping away and the social media platforms used by family and friends has become a waste-land of largely useless content, so I'm searching for greener pastures.
I doubt JBP will be well accepted by Randians.
I eagerly await his next book.
For those not grounded in Randian ethics / morals, the Bible - and JBP - works for me. When asked if he believes in God, JBP replies that he “tr[ies] to act as if there is a God.”
There are many things about it's teachings that I do still agree with (like "Do unto others..." & such) but none of those things are only found in that book or religion & all can be found without it. I've only recently been able to put my finger on where exactly my problem with it lies: It's the dogma! "Evil" is just a word used to describe our residual animal instincts. Learning how to be even MORE selfish by helping others so they can better help you is how we rose above the beasts & made all these amazing things (like thinking machines, the ability to fly over the oceans & even out into space). It's always baffled me how people like my dad and other Christian friends could be very intelligent & rational in every other area but still believe in all the crazier things in religion like a talking snake & that all of our problems came from the woman eating an apple. I've gone through JBP's explanation of the biblical stories only from a psychological/archetypal perspective (with no dogma attached) and got a lot more out of it than I ever did in any Church's interpretations of those same stories. I don't think they were meant to be taken quite so literally & they make a lot more sense when treated like analogies, but the dogma is more about the dollars than sense & Churches like money too so they'll let anyone in as long as they agree to obey, think what they're told to think, & not ask the questions that don't have answers. Like JBP, I've also really found Jung's theories really interesting.
Thanks for the welcome! I'm glad to have found this place and to have already found good food for thought (that would almost certainly get swept out of the "feed" on other platforms) in just a couple days of browsing here.
https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Nature-U...
I recall also Fr. John Polkinghorne’s works.
Commander, if you are reading this: You are the first and only one here who sent me a DIRECT message and now it's time to bounce it back. Check them out. They're about on your level.