Comments on: Sixty-Seventh Post http://christian.herwitz.com/2010/06/27/sixty-seventh-post/ Some thoughts from some guy named Christian Alexander Carlson Herwitz. His mother gave him a very long name. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jamie http://christian.herwitz.com/2010/06/27/sixty-seventh-post/comment-page-1/#comment-539 Jamie Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:32:15 +0000 http://christian.herwitz.com/?p=178#comment-539 "just a bunch of valueless processes"... I was just thinking about exactly that a few hours ago before I discovered your site! Systems are not inherently good or bad, but if they contain any internal flaws it's a direct result of the culmination of those who uphold it, and the source often seems to be the illusion of self. Rather I take it a step further and say that the reason for the illusion is a deep abiding fear of the unknown. I could keep going, but... Anyway, the way I look at it is if everything is changing temporally, physically, psychologically, and whatever else, then it's as though what we immediately perceive is just an asterisk leading to a footnote, and its continuum as an asterisk of an asterisk of an asterisk... a whole lotta asterisks. And you said something elsewhere about why we always feel like we need to be somewhere else. I don't know that to "explode" the self means escaping that constant pursuit, only a change of direction from outward to inward (if that makes sense). “just a bunch of valueless processes”… I was just thinking about exactly that a few hours ago before I discovered your site! Systems are not inherently good or bad, but if they contain any internal flaws it’s a direct result of the culmination of those who uphold it, and the source often seems to be the illusion of self. Rather I take it a step further and say that the reason for the illusion is a deep abiding fear of the unknown. I could keep going, but…

Anyway, the way I look at it is if everything is changing temporally, physically, psychologically, and whatever else, then it’s as though what we immediately perceive is just an asterisk leading to a footnote, and its continuum as an asterisk of an asterisk of an asterisk… a whole lotta asterisks. And you said something elsewhere about why we always feel like we need to be somewhere else. I don’t know that to “explode” the self means escaping that constant pursuit, only a change of direction from outward to inward (if that makes sense).

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