Beyond Existentialism?

[James_S_Saint]

@Joe Schmoe

You’re good at this.

Well, thank you. I try to not mislead. {“try” being the key word… nothing can die until it fails to try}

@Joe Schmoe

I think alternatives is my dilemma.

That is everyone’s dilemma and freedom to choose. From which they have formed the dense cloud called “society”. But as you already know, it gets resolved by having that highest goal with which to guide decisions and clear your skies of other people’s clouds/confusions/dilemmas.

@Joe Schmoe

To be or not to be. To accept my nature, and live accordingly. Or escape it.

How can one escape what one is?
If he wants to, isn’t he already divided and misguided. “If you think that you want to change what you are, first change your mind.”
The trick is to know what one is, not merely what one isn’t or doesn’t have, after which there is no more wanting to be anything else.

What you are, is your Self-Harmony, the most fundamental cohesive effort within, that effort that has kept you alive since before your birth despite your confusions and trials. The purpose of the mind is to help that inner effort to overcome that which is beyond itself and it cannot clearly see;

Clarify
Verify
Remember
the Hopes and Threats
that Optimize the Momentum
of that Self-Harmony
{just in case you didn’t read my signature }

The task of trying to clarify the clouds within and stemming from others is enormous and questionably futile and fruitless. To merely take a glance at the measure of such a task beyond the obvious confusions you see throughout the history of homosapian;

[size=150]The Mountain of Thought[/size]

The entire mountain of thought-response from zero to the very top;
0) affectance response

1. physical response
2. physiological response
3. emotive response
4. cognitive response
5. congressional response
6. union of congressional response
7. ultimate response
   Each level is separated merely by the scope of information involved. Additional congresses of union of congressional responses can be added infinitely if life were to spread throughout the universe. Each level utilizes a logic process. Each level “interprets” the significance of the level below it such as to decide or logically conclude its own response.

Belief is a conclusion based upon the logical processing of the information passed up from the lower levels. Believe it or not, the emotions are the result of a logic process involving merely a smaller scope of information. The cognitive process “senses” a set of emotive responses (similar to the Senate receiving bills, a request to act, from the House or the House hearing the lobbyists, activists, or representatives) and draws a conclusion (a logical process) based upon what has been passed to it.

One can take on trying to get all of those harmonized in everyone else, but I suspect you’d be better off merely aiming at getting them straight within yourself, starting with immutable cognitive foundations which lead to deep emotional foundations which in combination allow for a momentum of growth and further clarification, verification, and memory of your true hopes and threats that guide the whole into harmony - “Self-Harmony”.

Just as a fundamental analogy for how to begin;
“Does an infinite line have an end?”
“How do you know?”
“By definition of course.”
“How do you know that your definition is right?”
“It is MY definition. How can it be wrong for me?”
“But what if someone else has a different definition?”
“That sounds like their problem, not mine.”