To put it really on a macro perspective... aren't the things we do, all that we have just a bunch of rules? The rules of the system which we govern the people, the rules of physics, the rules of your house, and the rule of surviving. Maybe in another language they separate the word rule accordingly, so that the rule of the household doesn't sound as high-up on the same pedestal as laws of physics. Ah.. There it is.. "Law." But then there are laws in politics. Human made laws compared to rules that already exist within the universe that we can't really change, yet only observe and calculate, are quite different. I was just thinking, everything we do is a set of rules, if you work at a cafe you must do this, wash that, say this.... If you go to uni, you must reach a certain mark of this... Ofcourse there are instructions as well, which are more like guidelines for previous inventors/curators or more than a recommendation, a solid fact sheet of the image of finished product that they assume you are trying to complete.
It's just so weird... A world with a bunch of rules.
Really, among the basic rules of time and survival, everything else seems to sound a bit far-fetched and completely made up. And yet, we follow them.
I think, I might become a little more greedy from now on. I might do things that only benefit my time and survival on a whole. Of course, I won't even follow these rules efficiently, because it is necessary to pass time, decisions come into play that do not benefit survival. For example alcohol/drugs in large quantity/ friends with bad decisions (none of you guys). I guess, I have to make a new set of rules for myself, rather than relying on self instinct in certain situations. But then, how long does it take for a set of rules to turn a human into mere robotic coding? We will never be as direct, and quick as a computer, it's just not what humans were made to do...
It's just annoying how the psyche of a human brain limits us so. We are all so damn greedy and needy, if we just broke our luxury routines we could accomplish so much more.. Yet we continue to, for example, order a coffee from the corner shop. That coffee had to be produced in masses by some poorer country... That paper will most likely be thrown in the garbage to be buried underground for thousands of years, and that machine will have to be cleaned on the hour, and repaired on the weekly. (That was the biggest first world problem ever lol).
Who are we to judge, and be judged? Is judging just looking back on what rules you have ascertained to make the order of things most just in the system?
As humans are we really all equal?
In theory sure, if one new born child was given to a foreign country, from every country, they should act and behave according to how they're taught right?
So are we not a blank slot of brains until we get our heads filled with information brought from previous generations..? If that's so, for me to be questioning things like this, does that not hint that I've been exposed to something to trigger that response?
Systems, rules, and laws. Guidelines, recommendations, and instructions. Procedures, order of things, methods, stages and gradations.
How are we supposed to have any fun in a world like that
Sunday, May 17, 2015
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by making the rules up as we go along
...is what I would say if I was some teenaged philosopher saying things that don't make sense, leaping at the first lexical activation parsed by my brain
... ... legit tho making the rules is gr8,, thats why i love programming shit it's just giving a computer a bunch of super specific rules. in so doing I'm shaping the universe
bro. the important point of life, stupid as it is.. is to have fun.
fun is happiness and in the end, isnt that all what we're trying to achieve? positive emotions? positive emotions for everyone?
rules are implemented for structure and control. in nature, these rules that have been coincidenced and carved over millions of years and optimized by equilibrium allow us to benefit the most from their processes (oxygen, rain, gravity)
however, in the human world, alot of rules are not developed, optimized and adapted over a long time. they are slapped in our face as a means of the higher power to control. its easy to obey laws when you understand why some of them have been put in place. knowing that some rules are good deceives/eases you into thinking that less obvious rules may also serve a positive purpose.
and the construct of rules and living under rules may generate the feeling of uniformity and comfort (belonging), as in when a group of individuals live under a rule (in a club etc). like you know those games where you lose if you break a rule. (games also provide opportunity to formulate your own tempoarary rules)
but the biggest rule club is religion. where they present their 'suggested practices' as laws. spiritual practices set boundaries for life (like muslim women having acid poured on them because they refuse to marry). religion should not be a law. humans should not have the power to decide fate like that. but they do.
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