Do you agree with me that everything has two or more points of view?
e.g. If your house burns down, it is bad because you have lost your homestead but it is good because you have a chance to start fresh.
Okay I know it is not the best example but I hope it gets my point across.
Can you think of anything that only has one way of looking at it?
I do agree that virtually anything can have two or more interpretations. And our society fails to acknowledge the fact that more than one interpretation can be correct.
Too simplistic. Although anything can have multiple interpretations, you can only act on one. This isn't just a perspective issue; it's one of practicality. After all, if you just kept looking at every possible point of view, you wouldn't be able to act on any of them.
HM
I agree. I think anything has two points of view, but sometimes they become muddled in each other.
You know, they say there are two sides to every coin. Yep. That much is true - but actually, there are more sides than two! Look at the rim of the coin, quarters are ridged. How many sides is that?
Yes, you can't keep trying to decide which side to act on, you have to eventually act. But keeping a possitive perspective in every situation is definately worthy of applause!
Kudos to the original poster for trying.
2+2=?
Mathematics might be one thing that there is only one (correct) way of looking at.
2+2=100. Or is it 11? For what it's worth...
HM
| HereticMonkey wrote: |
2+2=100. Or is it 11? For what it's worth...
HM |
1+1 is a window.. 1+1 = 2.... 1+1=3 (added value).... so many points of views... Simple maths is made complicated :SHeh; I was justing playing with Base-2 and Base-3. Just making things interesting...
HM
In a way, life is like a game. But nobody gave us a manual on what are the goals of life, so then we have a problem. How we play this game depends on what are our goals, and we get to choose what those are.
Yet, it seems to me we are so ambitious about things related to ourselves that we tend to forget the value of spending time with family, to forget the value of others, to forget the value of the environment we play in, and even to forget the value of knowing ourselves. We adopt the predominant set of goals we are educated and trained to like, and thus we become slaves of the things we crave.
Imagine you were given the opportunity to roam around the universe as you please on the condition that you do not change the places you visit as if they were yours. Let's say you decide to try it out. After verifying the Apollo landers are really on the Moon, after taking a stroll on Mars, after skimming the atmosphere of Jupiter, after diving under the ice crust of Europa, after seeing the rings of Saturn and throwing pebbles across it with your own hands like you do in the lakes, rivers and seas of Earth, and after examining the rest of the solar system to your heart's content, it would become time to visit other places. Some that come to mind... the pleiads, the Orion nebula, Sagitarius A*, the numerous worlds in the galaxy you were born in, which eventually you will look at from the outside as you go for your first visit to Andromeda.
From this perspective, look at some of the people that live on Earth now. How valuable would you say having a checking account balance with 12, 20 or even 30 figures is worth? Perhaps you imagine this poor soul in his best business suit, his eyes almost closed because of incurable fears, trying to cover a pile of this metal called gold with his own body so others can't have it. Doesn't the whole proposition look pitiful now? Because you know that in the time it takes you to travel to the next star, the next anonymous person will relieve the guard of the previous one.
Well, that is more or less how truly insignificant we are. Just because you have more or less you are not more nor less, not even different. You are just another of these most humble beings that try to live here.
So... can we please get along and stop giving ourselves undue importance during the time we have to spend in this place? Can we stop assuming we have the moral rectitude to decide which of us should live? Or pretending our beliefs are better than anybody else's just because somebody wrote "it is so" on a piece of paper?
Ah, but you say, why not doing it anyway since we are stuck on Earth in the first place? Nobody will come to judge us in any case, so why care? Well that is great as long as we are ignorant. But at this point we no longer have the excuse of not knowing what the consequences of our acts are. And yet, we are behaving like the spoiled children our societies spend so much time and effort to "educate" so to speak in the image of our rulers --- spoiled in the sense that they become addicted to satisfying their selfish needs, with less and less tolerance to frustration, with more and more willingness to do whatever it takes to get another high.
It is time for us to grow up once and for all. We better hurry, or I think we will not even have a chance.
What I like about any situation is the fact that someone else will see something totally different that what I might see. There are always more than one way to look at anything. It's just what your mindset is. But all we can really do is act on the choice that is best for us at that point in time in our life.
