God or whatever the über shit it is, gives you always what you need not what you want. Thus the ultimate pimp, and a funny one.
I really like this. Really really do.
Why don't we add the final ingredient that totally blows up the chemistry set? What if your ambitions and desires are witheld from you by life because what you really NEED is to let them go? What if you need to let them go because whatever internal lack you feel when you don't have what you desire NEEDS to be filled, not with the accomplishment of your desire, but with YOU? What if once you thusly come to terms with your internal lack, you are then in a better position (and mindset) to use your accomplishments for the betterment of humanity, not for the usual cliches like world peace, etc. (which while noble, tend to ring a little hollow), but to simply encourage others to free their minds as you have now done? (What if this eventually could conceivably bring about all these noble cliches that are so elusive in a more natural and therefore more lasting way?) What if at this point, life no longer witholds the desire in question because you are now ready to do what life NEEDS you to do with that desire, as opposed to what you WANT to do?
What if women are not attracted to you when you place your priority on getting them (I know this thread is not about women, but bear with me - there is a method to my madness) because they are unconsciously following a fundamental law of nature that dictates that they cannot successfully feed a WANT, only a NEED, and that we cannot successfuly accomplish our WANTS, only our NEEDS? What if this fundamental law applies both to men and women?
What if this fundamental law permeats ALL facets of life, ALL interactions, ALL successes, ALL failures, etc.? What if all the unhappiness, isolation, violence, and vindictiveness through the entire world today (and indeed throughout all of human history) is because of our pursuing our WANTS rather than our NEEDS?
What if, instead of "God or whatever the über shit it is" (
thanks for that one, Dali) directing all of this, it is our unconcious minds interacting with one another? Like how CG Jung (my latest obsession
) observed that a person who is spoiled by their parents will have nightmares that portray the parents as villians, suggesting that the unconscious mind self-regulates in a way that compensates for what we (consciously) WANT with what we (unconsciously) NEED?
What if our unconscious minds simply function like "God or whatever the über shit it is"? What if they are one and the same?
What if, in this context, the word NEED is a paradox?
Welcome to Hooeyville.
I DO NOT advocate the formation of the Church of the Righteous All-Seeing Pimp. We have enough religions as it is. Count me out....
Thread hijack over, with sincere apologies.
28. The best way to get approval is not to need it.
This is equally true in art and business. And love. And sex. And just about everything else worth having.”
Hugh Macleod
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