we have people like Schopenhauer who thought the universe
was not “rational” and thus not understandable and we have
people like Plato who believed that the universe was rational
and thus understandable…but both are wrong…
the universe is or isn’t rational because the universe just is…
we human place values, terms on things like the universe…
the universe just does its thing and then we call that some value or
term… good and evil… just terms to describe the universe… while
the universe is… just is…
Think of a tree… any tree will do…
and think of all the connections that tree has… connections to the ground,
connections to the air and animals and to us…but from the tree or the earth’s
prespective, the tree just is… and while it is connected to the whole… that isn’t
the point of the tree… the tree just lives and does it thing and it is we humans
that create the names and functions of those connections that tree has…
the tree doesn’t know or care about its name or its functions, the tree just
does its thing… the rest is irrelevant…it is humans who classify and name
and creates graphs about the tree but all the while, what does the tree do?
we can follow a drop of water as it flows from one enviroment to another,
from one event to another and we can see the connections that the one drop
of water becomes and we see the inner connections that fill our world…
but from that one drop of water prespective, it doesn’t matter… that
one drop of water is just doing its thing… the rest is irrelevant…
the water lives without ism’s or ideologies or without prejudice or myths or
superstitions… because those are all human creations… with nothing to do
with that drop of water or that tree…
does an external reality exists? yes, of course it does…but outside of
human beings, that reality just is and has no values or terms attached to it…
no values or terms like good or evil or just or loving or honest or misguided…
life just is… and then we humans spend our time declaring that “is” as being
something… no, it just “is”…and we need to just “be”… but what does that mean?
what does this “is” or “being”… exactly mean?..
the question of human existence isn’t about the “is” or the “being” of human existence…
the question of human existence is the ever changing, the becoming of humans…
for human beings, there might not even be an “is”, a “being” present for us…
for everything in human existence is about becoming… we know that cells in
a human body die off and get replaced, some cells last only days and others last
for a human lifetime… my body and your body is in a constant state of
of cells dying off and being replaced at a rapid pace throughout our lives…
the “is” that is us, changes quite often over a lifetime……. we continue to
become…the “is” that wrote the first sentence of the post has already changed…
so tell me, with so many changes going on, how do I know when I am “being” or “is”?
for that “is” “being” can only last for a split second and then cells die and are replaced…
every single second is another second hurtling us toward death… we have only so
many seconds of existence and then existence is over for us… the only real being we ever
have is the final state of being, death…that is the only time in our life that
we stop becoming………and even then we still are in a state of becoming…
our bodies and cells and muscles all begin to decay and that is just another state
of becoming…
so tell me… what are you in a state of “is” or a state of “being”?
Kropotkin