New Proposal for the Secret of Life

[LHX]

So after years of whatever, this is the best I can come up with at this point:


The 'Secret' of 'Life' (or however you want to refer to this experience) is this:

There is a 'flow of nature'
You can temporarily disrupt this 'flow of nature' and send it in a different direction (other than how it was moving before).
When you do this, it gives you a temporary illusion of control.
Eventually the pressure builds and pops whatever it is that was causing the disruption and the flow of nature is restored.

This can be repeated or not depending on how you feel.



Ill prolly refine this later.

Enjoy.


Please feel free to bash or dismantle.

[B_M_W]

So after years of whatever, this is the best I can come up with at this point:


The 'Secret' of 'Life' (or however you want to refer to this experience) is this:

There is a 'flow of nature'
You can temporarily disrupt this 'flow of nature' and send it in a different direction (other than how it was moving before).
When you do this, it gives you a temporary illusion of control.
Eventually the pressure builds and pops whatever it is that was causing the disruption and the flow of nature is restored.

This can be repeated or not depending on how you feel.



Ill prolly refine this later.

Enjoy.


Please feel free to bash or dismantle.

Furthermore, when that bubble pops, you may be fucked.

Just sayin.

[LHX]

Furthermore, when that bubble pops, you may be fucked.

Just sayin.

no doubt

thats the implication

it works on the personal scale AND the social scale



how to proceed on this? im not 100% sure

when you realize that you may have become the type of person that is setting yourself up to get fucked later on
it might be wise to start popping yourself



humility FTW

[P3nT4gR4m]

So after years of whatever, this is the best I can come up with at this point:


The 'Secret' of 'Life' (or however you want to refer to this experience) is this:

There is a 'flow of nature'
You can temporarily disrupt this 'flow of nature' and send it in a different direction (other than how it was moving before).
When you do this, it gives you a temporary illusion of control.
Eventually the pressure builds and pops whatever it is that was causing the disruption and the flow of nature is restored.

This can be repeated or not depending on how you feel.

I like it!

Ill prolly refine this later.

Leave it alone it's fine like it is.

[Cain]

Shih.

Its a good word.  You can find it in the Art of War, and implied in alot of Taoist works.

[LHX]

Shih.

Its a good word.  You can find it in the Art of War, and implied in alot of Taoist works.

100% troof

it has no english translation


good eye

[P3nT4gR4m]

Shih.

Its a good word.  You can find it in the Art of War, and implied in alot of Taoist works.

100% troof

it has no english translation


good eye

Link me now goddamnit! All I can find are pictures of stupid little fluffy dogs

[Cain]

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/suntzu/content.cmhtml?chapter=05

This chapter introduces the term shih, one of the key terms of the Art of War. Most simply said, shih is the ever-changing configuration of power in one's environment. The skilled general knows shih so well that he/she can use it to achieve effortless victories. For example,

      One who uses shih sets people to battle as if rolling trees and rocks.
      As for the nature of trees and rocks --
      When still, they are at rest.
      When agitated, they move.
      When square, they stop.
      When round, they go.

Thus the shih of one skilled at setting people to battle is like rolling round rocks from a mountain one thousand jen high.

Chapter 5 also contains the famous pair "orthodox and extraordinary." The former is battle-by-the-book, what the enemy expects. The latter is always unpredictable. Thus:

      In sum, when in battle,
      Use the orthodox to engage.
      Use the extraordinary to attain victory.

[LMNO]

So after years of whatever, this is the best I can come up with at this point:


The 'Secret' of 'Life' (or however you want to refer to this experience) is this:

There is a 'flow of nature'
You can temporarily disrupt this 'flow of nature' and send it in a different direction (other than how it was moving before).
When you do this, it gives you a temporary illusion of control.
Eventually the pressure builds and pops whatever it is that was causing the disruption and the flow of nature is restored.

This can be repeated or not depending on how you feel.



Ill prolly refine this later.

Enjoy.


Please feel free to bash or dismantle.

How does one recognize this "flow"?

And what if the "disruption" resembles the "flow" so closely that it is imperceptable?

[LHX]

How does one recognize this "flow"?

thats the question right there - for lack of anything that can be pointed at or demonstrated - that seems to be where something like this would break down

And what if the "disruption" resembles the "flow" so closely that it is imperceptable?

im not sure if perception has much to do with this scenario

the disruption can resemble the flow all it wants - but if it tries to go in a different direction, it is pretty much fucked

something small that is part of (and depends on) something bigger cant successfully go against that bigger thing (except in apparently small, temporary bursts)

[LMNO]

The question being, if the disruption resebles the flow, how do you know you aren't going with the flow, but are instead going with the disruption?

[LHX]

The question being, if the disruption resebles the flow, how do you know you aren't going with the flow, but are instead going with the disruption?

you stick with it until you have reason to believe otherwise

you know because you factor that uncertainty in

Occam's Razor + Maybe Logic FTW


if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck - you assume its a duck until you open it up and find machine parts in it

[AFK]

Mecha-Quackers!!!

I really like the dam metaphor in the OP.

It's appropriate.

Mankind thinks a dam allows it to control nature.  And, perhaps, it does in the short term.  Short term being relative of course.  For a being with a lifespan of 80 or so years it probably feels long term, and thus, reinforces the delusional idea of control.

But, the reality is, that a human lifespan is very short term in the grand scheme of the planet and the universe.  A river being damned for 150 years seems like history to us. 

To the planet, all it is is a temporary artery blockage.

There is no control anywhere.

[B_M_W]

And again, when that blockage is released, when the flow is returned, we may be fucked.

Hell, we may be fucked right now. If not, we are well onto our way to being fucked.

Humans have no priority.
Humans have no athority.
Any bowing that you see the mountains and oceans doing,
Thats only until our back is turned;
And we will be swept a way in a tide of sand and detrius...

[LHX]

humility and versatility FTW