Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Why do we live the conventional lifestyle [Re: willie] #16995 - 06/02/02 06:20 AM Edit Reply Quote

Willie has a wrong understanding of time. If old is bad, then he should forget about his parent(age)? The question is whether he can forget who he was in relation to who he is. he must b quoting his past more than he even realizes. Does he understand how and why he's quoting? Does he condemn his past whenever he realizes that? If Willie thinks that the past should be denied, and that the present is the reality without that past, he's caught in a looping, repetitive, eternal present, like he's stuck in the Groundhog Day phenomenon. That might look fantastic in the beginning, but will be boring in due time. Willie has a very linear opinion about the time, it seems, am I right? Almost Darwinistic: from simplicity towards complexity towards better and better. It looks as if Willie thinks that now that we have better means and tools, we are better "equipped" to understand and solve, in relation to the past people and their achievements and works. But do we? Is time really that linear? Are we the only ones now, who have achieved these levels? What about so many satisfactory unanswered questions relating to past civilizations, which are simply denied by the traditional linear thinking schools, without giving proper explanations themselves? Another mistake Willie makes is that he looks too much to the quantitative package without understanding the intrinsical qualitative meaning of past works. What is so different from past and present dialectical developments, from past and present polemics and polarities, etc, besides the simplicity and complexity levels? What counts is not what's past or what's present, but what's a balance of practically functioning now with proper understanding of time mechanisms in relation to timelessness!