A Proverb of my own.

[---Beany---]

To "think" is to latch onto thoughts.

Thoughts are singular. A thought latched onto and stretched over a period of time is the act of "Thinking".

To think positively, is to not think at all; because to think anything is to satisfy your doubts.

Take any thought that you have and everytime it's source will be born from a doubt.



Every thought is to satify your doubts that tell you "Yes you are good looking", "Yes, this is how to act to gain acceptance "Yes you are eating the right kinds of food"; if you have no doubts, you wouldn't be thinking. You'd just be looking good, gaining acceptance and eating food".

So if I see a beautiful girl, and I think "She's beautiful", it's to satisfy my doubts that tell me "Your attraction towards this female is acceptable", but if I see a girl and I look and admire her, it's because I'm not thinking at all.

If I'm too scared to go and talk to the girl and think "She won't even like me", it's to satisfy the doubts that tell me "I have a reason to not talk to her", but if I don't think at all I'd be ignoring my doubts and reacting perfectly to the situation.

Look at the title of my thread. To call the title "A proverb of my own", is to satisfy my doubts that tell me "You have something profound to say".

Thinking is to satisfy your doubts. This is true with every thought (from what I've examined so far), so cut back on the thinking.



[This message has been edited by ---Beany--- (edited 10-16-2004).]

I might just go think for a while now. Thanks mate.

I think everyone does that because it's wired into one's success in society. Many autistic people have trouble distinguishing what you describe.

[Fuck]

You always seem to come around right when I lost my way to remind me of things I already learned but ignored...

thanks.

[I_Like_Traffic_Lights]

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive"(Joseph Cambell)

From a book I picked up recommended from a discussion about my "same story different accent" idea. seems fitting here.

You the man beany.

feces flies across the room on powered propellers powered by propane.

thanks

The greatest pains are those which we inflict on ourselves.

[Social Junker]

quote:Originally posted by ---Beany---:

To "think" is to latch onto thoughts.

quote:Originally posted by NurotiK_SykotiK:



The greatest pains are those which we inflict on ourselves.

Ah, very Buddhist in thinking.

[---Beany---]

To take this one step further (Providing the theory is correct).

To think is to doubt.

When in doubt, people are more influenced by others who appear to be sure of themselves.

Therefore "Not thinking" is the only way to truly be yourself.

This in turn is the only way to get to know yourself and who you are.

[bkc]

quote:Originally posted by ---Beany---:



To think positively, is to not think at all; because to think anything is to satisfy your doubts.

This seems related to the idea that in the unconscious there are no negative "thoughts", only positive ones. So it follows from your ideas here, that the unconscious could be characterized as your nonthinking existence, or your positive existence, and your thinking existence would therefore seem to be more of a negative existence.

Or your thinking self takes only positives and abstracts them into positive and negative thoughts, and then we delude ourselves into believing in what our thinker has created.

[bkc]

quote:Originally posted by ---Beany---:



To think is to doubt.

"And to not think is only to believe in the One."

But we can have, and communicate this belief roughly, with our thinkers, or I should say "In spite of our thinkers", as you are admirably attempting to do here.

[evolove]

I think your empassising the wrong pionts, the mind is a very varried thing. Take the Freudian view that everything a person does is with the aim of placing itself in the best place to obtain the best mate, nutshell.. which might be a nice illustration in itself. But, as some have noted, did Frued come up with this because of his own psychological make up?

"Oedipal complex... Frued right? Came up with this idea that all men want to sleep with they're mothers!

"Now!, I thought that was bullshit....

'Til one day...

"I saw a picture of Freud's mom... OH MY GOD! In a second! WOAH! in-a-second.. lol"

"All I'm saying is he didn't come up with that theory in my house!"

(Thanks Billbo)

But of course the sexual and reproductive drive has a huge effect on the way a person behaves, but it's like empassising lines in a sketch, taking one part and clouring it black, which is kind of interesting because, when you do this, your colouring that part in your own mind, like preforming auto-suggesting on yourself, creating like a feedback loop, which is then colouring everything else you see, colouring other parts of the picture to bring some balance back, or not doing so, creating a focal piont... so on and so on.

If you look at the myth of Oedipus, it is one myth in a sea of them from the Greeks, I would look at this and it's relevance in the human mind in a much similar way. email meeee, mother, damn Oedipus