Time

[train07]

At the moment of "accomplishment" their brain waves went totally blank. The brain waves were all over the place the instant before they initiated their move, but once they did: stillness. That's the suspended animation thing, the time-slowdown I guess. It was neat.


Sprite

AHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............


wait a minute... what were you saying?

[Rasputin]

anyhoo, there is no universal constant to happiness and there should NOT be a universal constant. I would hate to think that people would want to stay in some blissful oblivion that allows no personal growth, that allows no sorrow or anger or fear or accomplishment. Mind you there are people who attempt to maintain such a feat, staying in the high is a perfect example, or the flow or whatever lame attempt to quantify good feelings. The bottom line is that without suffering, without indignation, without hitting bottom you have no room for expansion in the upper ends of your life. If everything that you work for is to maintain some mental state, you ignore the 1000000 other capacities that your life could offer

Hitting bottom is usually predicated by the sort of emotional derivation and avoidance you describe, rather than a neccessary mode of expanding one's amplitude. While I do agree that personal growth is a byproduct of acceptance of emotional volitility, it does not require suffering, the suffering is due to lack of acceptance for, and hence resistance to, the process of evolving. Such resistance can cause the experience of the passage of time to slow down to a hellish stagnation.

[Odin]

I would hesitantly agree with that although it does appear that humans (making generalizations) tend to learn from thei mistakes and revel in their success. Those who can learn from both have a better capacity for growth, however unforunately I happen to think that most people lack the will to self analyze and grow until absolutly necessary, and will choose any method of avoidence possible before leaving their precious rut.

[iceman]

I would hesitantly agree with that although it does appear that humans (making generalizations) tend to learn from thei mistakes and revel in their success. Those who can learn from both have a better capacity for growth, however unforunately I happen to think that most people lack the will to self analyze and grow until absolutly necessary, and will choose any method of avoidence possible before leaving their precious rut.

Quit talking about me, man.

[Tippster]

...the suffering is due to lack of acceptance for, and hence resistance to, the process of evolving...

Truism, Hypothesis, or blather? Methinks the latter, sirrah!

[Rasputin]

Truism, Hypothesis, or blather? Methinks the latter, sirrah!

You think? Oh come now, uniform denial requires no thought. While the way I express such things may not be suited to your mind's vocabulary, I have not blathered at all in my offering.

[Yossarian]

Before he became all famous and shit, Brian Greene was my professor for honors Physics 101, Newtonian Mechanics and General Relativity.













Needless to say, that class rocked.
















Man, I'm such a nerd.














Schrodinger's Cat, excellent read.














I have some other books to recommend when I get home from this trip.

[Rasputin]

I would hesitantly agree with that although it does appear that humans (making generalizations) tend to learn from thei mistakes and revel in their success. Those who can learn from both have a better capacity for growth, however unforunately I happen to think that most people lack the will to self analyze and grow until absolutly necessary, and will choose any method of avoidence possible before leaving their precious rut.

Sadly the generalizations you submit here are not without merit, but the belief in the patterns you have observed is a great reinforcement of them.

I think you are quite right about most lacking the will to self analyze, and perhaps that lack of will is tied to the despair that accompanies the belief that only suffering can come from peeking outside the cave. I expect such folks need to see others, who have the will, increase, before they can see the path to growth as something other than an unnecessary hardship.

[snow_slider]

I believe in the Force. We are all connected.











Now I'm going to go play with my lightsaber........