What’s your all-time favorite album?
Aenima by Tool
The answer to this question has not changed since the first time I listened to this album when I was 15.
Tag: #bekind
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Responding to Weekly Prompts – Weekend Challenge
Weekly Prompts – Weekend Challenge – Wrong
Anyone who knows me knows that I am big on the meaning of words and their relationship to one another. Wrong is an interesting word. If you check out the dictionary definition, you will see that most of the definitions are saying that wrong is something that is not something else. Something that is not moral, not just, not successful, not accurate. The list goes on.
I think that “wrong” in many cases is actually a subjective term. Now, if you say 2+2 = 7, that is wrong. It is not a factual statement at all. In any given non-arithmetic situation, you could say, “That person was wrong for doing what they did.” Were they? Perhaps. But the idea of wrongness invokes and necessitates a certain amount of emotion, and therefore, subjectivity.
Something can feel wrong but not be wrong. And, at the same time, something can be wrong and not feel wrong. Allow me to explain. A child who deals with abuse at home will perhaps grow up to be a person who does not stand up for themselves. Doing so feels wrong to them because it is not familiar, but most people will agree that standing up for yourself is right, and it is important. On the flip side, you squish a mosquito or a spider. It doesn’t feel wrong because of the consensus that these creatures are pests, but in a way, it is wrong because you are ending a life.
And that’s the thing, isn’t it? In so many cases, the idea of “wrong” has to do with the societal consensus, with the overall judgements of the culture and the era. Where is it that we can find objective evaluations of what wrong is? I don’t know that we can. I don’t believe that life or the universe or perhaps even god in whatever form, is concerned with right vs wrong. It is concerned with balance. In any system, micro or macro, the net-net of any transaction or interaction is zero – you see this in finance, in physics, in math, in many personal relationships. The system is attempting to maintain homeostasis, to balance both sides of the equation for a net gain of zero so that things continue the way that they were designed to.
“Wrong” is largely a subjective judgement placed on things in a broad way to keep society in line. Perhaps we are on the right track with those judgements, but we have no way of knowing for sure because of our physiological and mental limitations.
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Modern society really has caused a detachment of humanity from an exploration of the deeper things in life. This saddens me.
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Why do people wait till the absolute last minute to show up to catch a train or plane, knowing that if they miss it, it will ruin their plans? Seriously. I will never understand that.
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The first dog I had as an adult was Patch. She was a mutt, but definite pit bull and boxer in the mix.
This dog was my freaking world, and I know for a fact that she would have done anything to protect me. I love the dogs I have now, but definitely felt safest when I had Patch around.
Patch was multi-faceted, and very smart. She would oversee any home improvement projects, with a required test sniff/lick of any tools or materials being used. She would run behind the tv to catch perpetrators who ran off screen, and she absolutely loved fries from Five Guys. She would lick the peanut butter away, then spit out the medicine hidden inside it. She patrolled the yard relentlessly, and even protected us from two “assault” skunks.
We spread her ashes around the perimeter of the yard to commemorate her devotion to protecting her domain and her humans.
It’s been years, but I still miss her terribly.
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Two things. 1 – it really is interesting how differently the male and female brains function, and how that is largely driven by evolution. 2 – I hate when people put a song in my head and then remind me of it just to start the replay loop over after I had just gotten rid of it!
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A huge part of how you experience reality has to do with your frame of reference.
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Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.
Well, this is a bit of a loaded question since hindsight is 20/20 and I don’t think I know a single person who would not want the opportunity to be better prepared for things. Having said that….
I wish I knew earlier in life that not everyone is going to work, play, and/or love as hard or as much as you do, and that it is unfair to expect yourself from other people. Had I known that from the get go, I could have saved myself a lot of stress, pain, and frustration.
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Life can be so retarded sometimes.
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I read somewhere that the sense of smell is tied more strongly to memory than any other sense. I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, why? And for me, I think it might be hearing (as in music) rather than smell. Just sayin.
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 