psychoceramics: Don't ask why, thank you.

[Alan Olsen <alan @ ctrl-alt-del.com>]

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>Why?
>
>Date: 20th October 1996.
>        The purpose of life,... is not to be found. I have been pursuing
>this
>thought and question to many of the people I have met in the past few
>weeks.
>Sad enough to report that I have found no answers or clues that if anyone
>ever
>know what it is or could be. One thing for sure is material and physical
>objects are close to replacing the purpose, the real purpose if there is
>one.
>I am still quizzed on how there is a purpose in which we all strive to
>attain.
>There must an objective somewhere which clearly states,"You, whatname
>whatage,
>will have to do this, do that."
>        Somehow, in the pursuit for the answer I have strained my physical
>and emotional self. I have realised what I am doing and that I am actually
>directionless, like all the people I know. Doing things for the sake of
>doing.
>Clearly, I think television or rather, the mass media in general has caused
>the gradual eradication of purpose in life for many people. What do you
>want?
>What do I want? Sure enough, we do not ask ourselves that question once too
>often, but spending more time pondering about it, it really makes no sense
>in what we do having corellation to what we want. What is it actually that
>we
>seek in life?
>        Which brings us back to the time when we thought we had a purpose.
>Could you recall the times when you really wanted something? Or someone?
>Why?
>Simply because we didn't have it. It's a mass media driven, pointless race
>to
>own something, which actually doesn't make much sense. I am not sure why
>all
>of us are acting the way we are. In trying to understand it, I began to
>question why I would want to know. Why do I want to know? So that I could
>talk
>about it? Write a book? Be famous and rich? Be respected? Now, take a
>minute
>off and think of what you just read. It's from the media to the people. The
>people made the media. People are driving people nuts. Is this what we
>want?
>Once you shrink the big picture, you realise that nothing makes any sense
>anyway. And what is "making sense"?
>        What do we gain from realising all this which makes us act and live
>the way we are? We get to past our time. Since we were born, we had nothing
>except time. Shitloads of it, excuse me. So we start doing things. Things
>that
>actually do not mean much to us but, "heck, I've got all the time in my
>life"
>So, it starts to generate a sort of hype, "hey, he's doing something, maybe
>I
>should too." Then another fella comes in, "Well I've got nothing to do,
>maybe
>I should tell others what these two guys are doing" So the snowball gets
>rolling. The moment it stops, if it ever stops, I guess we go crazy. Now
>what
>is crazy? Understanding why we actually have no reason of being here? I'm
>not
>going to start on religion, if you're getting my rift here.
>        So here we are, pretending that we love this and like doing that.
>Okay, I admit somethings are fun but 90% of the time you realise, "gee,
>what
>is it that I want?" If everyone were to ask the same question at the same
>time,
>then we'd all be crazy or something, whatever. The problem is, there's five
>billion people and each one not voicing what they think would hold
>themselves
>back by saying "Now, if I say that, these guys would think I'm nuts, and
>my..."
>Some do get to express, and once they express it, they are lost in the
>world
>of understanding, they realise that we all have no reasons, logical or
>whatsoever, to be where we are doing what we think we need to do. Now these
>guys are labeled "nuts" and grouped together. See how happy they are in
>"Cuckoo's Nest". Okay, so the interns are a little pain in the ass. But
>look
>at yourself! We are basically doing things of no relevance. Question what
>you
>do with "So?" You are bound to realise what you have probably tried to hide
>all your life. That we are all alone. That we are all meaningless. That we
>are
>all trying to hide from each other what we fear.
>        No, this is not a scam. And sorry, I don't have the solution.
>
>        I guess we are the same.
>        In the dark we are alone, in the bright we skin and hide.
>
>
>r--@t--.net.my
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>
>"I have seen little angels turn bad
>But that's just because they have grown
>Likewise the problems I currently access
>They are small matters full blown"  
>
>
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