I've been watching the whole Cyfswatch thing from a bit of a distance.
There's too little information to make sense of all the events going on, but, I think its an interesting idea in that the people who want the goverment thinking changed on this are using quite an effective tool. Well, a potentially effective tool, whether things change or not is yet to be seen.
I think more and more we will see the blog world have extremely imporant role in politics and goverments. Question is, how will it be exploited?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Spirit?
During life, it seems to me that hurt tends to outweigh everything else.
Take a mentally healthy person and within moments you can cause that person a hurt that will adversely change the rest of their life. You can break them.
It's hard to imagine the opposite kind of event, perhaps some would argue finding god would be such an event, or perhaps finding enlightenment / nirvana. But even these things can be cut down by a moment of hurt also. Though, some remain immune.
It seems that the things that provide protection against hurt work by disassociating ourselves from our flesh and blood. We merge into a bigger picture or disappear into nothingness. We find a way to separate our experience of life from who we are, we find our Spirit. Yet, when the going is good, we try to be one with the "moment" we try to let ourselves go, and purely *experience*, we don't want to be disassociated with our experience.
It's interesting that our brain does a similar thing. It (psychologically speaking) also disassociates painful events. It has to or otherwise we'd be overwhelmed (some people are). Our brains automatically try and protect us from our bad experiences and memories. However, it will prod us sharply if it recognises an association with a past hurt. Hence why people have all sorts of fears for unknown reasons.
So, I wonder if spirituality is simply a self defence mechanism?
This reasoning is a bit awkward really. But I have just been reflecting on a number of people and have seen that hurt has been a significant life shaping thing. I have also been reflecting on my own life and what I seem to remember is these moments "clarity", moments where things fell together and made sense. I see these things as massively positive experiences. I feel these things have shaped me as who I am. Defined my spirt. But, when I really really think about it, I actually have very selective memory. My hurt has been hidden in my mind, I dont immediately recall it, or it just dosn't seem so bad. But actually, the hurt has been significant. It shaped what moments of "clarity" I have had. My moments of "clarity" are probablly just coping mechanisims for hurt.
Even if thats what they are, they make the experience of life generally enjoyable.
Take a mentally healthy person and within moments you can cause that person a hurt that will adversely change the rest of their life. You can break them.
It's hard to imagine the opposite kind of event, perhaps some would argue finding god would be such an event, or perhaps finding enlightenment / nirvana. But even these things can be cut down by a moment of hurt also. Though, some remain immune.
It seems that the things that provide protection against hurt work by disassociating ourselves from our flesh and blood. We merge into a bigger picture or disappear into nothingness. We find a way to separate our experience of life from who we are, we find our Spirit. Yet, when the going is good, we try to be one with the "moment" we try to let ourselves go, and purely *experience*, we don't want to be disassociated with our experience.
It's interesting that our brain does a similar thing. It (psychologically speaking) also disassociates painful events. It has to or otherwise we'd be overwhelmed (some people are). Our brains automatically try and protect us from our bad experiences and memories. However, it will prod us sharply if it recognises an association with a past hurt. Hence why people have all sorts of fears for unknown reasons.
So, I wonder if spirituality is simply a self defence mechanism?
This reasoning is a bit awkward really. But I have just been reflecting on a number of people and have seen that hurt has been a significant life shaping thing. I have also been reflecting on my own life and what I seem to remember is these moments "clarity", moments where things fell together and made sense. I see these things as massively positive experiences. I feel these things have shaped me as who I am. Defined my spirt. But, when I really really think about it, I actually have very selective memory. My hurt has been hidden in my mind, I dont immediately recall it, or it just dosn't seem so bad. But actually, the hurt has been significant. It shaped what moments of "clarity" I have had. My moments of "clarity" are probablly just coping mechanisims for hurt.
Even if thats what they are, they make the experience of life generally enjoyable.
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