You Can't Always Get What You Want...

The question (from Yahoo Answers Philosophy):

Why is it so? 

We do not get what we like and do not like what we get sometimes.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140530104208AAcl52L

My Answer:
Picture a pizza pie. Take away two slices. What do you have left? Three quarters of a pizza? Not enough? An incomplete puzzle? An annoying asymmetry? 

Every atom and molecule in the universe is susceptible to change. DNA and Nebulae live to diversify and produce new things. Every aspect of the universe is poised to grow and change and pass away. It is never complete. 

Animals hunger, and seek those things they are geared to find. Cats play with yarn. Humans seek patterns in everything. We want that finished product, that whole pie in the sky that life can never be. It is our gift to seek it, and it is the universe's gift not to give it to us, so that we are always and forever seeking those missing pieces. 

We don't always get what we want or accept what we get because that would kill us.

What was the most touching thing anyone has done for you?

The Question from Yahoo Answer:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140521072907AAijS7O

My Answer: When I was eighteen I was still wetting the bed. My family never told me my much older siblings had the same problem. Parents shamed me and ignored me, siblings mocked and blackmailed me. It was a horrible secret.

I told my best friend. He could have laughed, he could have judged me. What he did was CRY. He felt so bad for everything I was going through.

From that day on, I stopped wetting the bed.

Where did we come from

The question from YA!:

Philosophical discussion ...? 

(Just in your personal opinion) 

- Where did we come from? and where we will go?

I want you to try this thought experiment. 

Imagine infinite non-existence. If a ruler is infinitely long, every number possible (like 4527) and impossible (like minus minus beeblblatz) will eventually appear on that ruler. 

So, an infinite non-existence has every kind of non-existence possible in it, AND something impossible - existence! 

Now turn it around, and you have a little spot of reality (not little from OUR perspective but little compared to the infinity of infinities) that has x, y and z in it. Everything that is in that reality is determined by the invisible hand of the infinite sea of nothing. The infinite sea of nothing is so omnipresent and so multifaceted that it is an integral part of every atom (see superpositioning of electrons) and yet at every level it is invisible (because non-existent) except for effect. 

Now have this non-existence observe the world, as a colorless, formless, rootless consciousness attached unexplainably to the body of H, an animal roaming around this reality. 

Why is consciousness so ethereal, detatched and formless? Because it is the nothing observing itself in the one place where nothing can be something - reality. 

Thus God created the world, is unchanging, infinite omniscient and we are formed in his image, as shapeless unchanging observer. 

That is how we got here - creation.

On Dualism

Duality is a false god. It appeals to us because our minds filter ideas through continua (hot-warm-cool-cold; light-dull-dim-dark) and dualistic thinking 90% simplifies the universe. It allows for black and white thinking which is deeply satisfying and it allows the ineffable universe to feel within our grasp. 

But separating things creates TWO continua (heaven-purgatory-hell; sacred ground-ordinary ground-profane ground) and adds more and more theological complications until it resembles a man-made version of the ineffable universe, the ineffable theology so to speak. 

That then (the fact that dual logic is confusing) becomes a DEFENSE of dualism (life is a mystery.) 

Yes life is a mystery, but building a mystery cult around it is not an answer - it is parroting the question. 

Dualism does not work.

The question from Yahoo Answers:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140515023109AAJ76pB

The Donkey and the Hooch

The question from Yahoo Answers:

Is an addiction really broken if you just remove it?

If you have a donkey that drinks all your bourbon and you separate the two, you now have your bourbon and a thirsty donkey.

Teaching the donkey to stop wanting the bourbon is fine, but he can't ever have any again or he'll go right back to being a bourbon drinking donkey. You cannot unmake a drinking donkey unless you keep it away from your hooch.

The kicker, is of course that donkey's have a bad memory and forget that they have been trained not to drink.

But yes, you can teach an old donkey new tricks, so long as he avoids his old ones.

Goofy

The Boy Who Wanted To Fly

I was fascinated as a child with the belief that human unaided flight should be possible just by willing it, and that to the degree that it was not, we were buying a bill of goods called reality. I asked myself why I wanted reality more than I wanted to fly. I doubted I wanted reality more than I wanted to fly. 

But the will to crazy, the will to do anything I wanted if I wanted badly enough was not there. So I continued to puzzle over my fixation with sanity and limitation, eventually coming to see limitations as what make me me, and not just cosmic noise. I wanted to be me (live in a universe I recognized) more than I wanted to fly.