Alas that is what has happened to me, with this thread. I confess that my mind has become mush reading it, its contents pablum. Does it contain anything of importance? I cannot say. Obviously nothing I cannot live without. Does it contain reason? I cannot say. I can say it contains exceeding dryness and length. It contains prodigious seriousness and pomp. It has been a huge and fastidious undertaking, a tea ceremony of sorts, at the least. How long will it continue? Possibly until the end of the earthly lives of Jehu and Iolaus.Jehu wrote:The brain, like any other organ, can suffer exhaustion if it is forced to restructure too quickly. Just as we must build new muscle slowly so as to avoid undo discomfort, so too must we restructure the neural networks of our brains slowly. In fact, this is why many turn away from the path of reason, for the “mental gymnastic” that are required to follow it simply exhausts their mental capacity.
For the longevity of it, and keeping it as sacrosanct as they have these many months, they are to be commended. It is a church. It is a circular mantra. It is one stone unmovable in the midst of an ever changing world. It is the modern equivalent of the tablet of Moses. It is a book of exchanges, an entire volume which should be published. It is sacred whether or not it is understandable, whether or not it actually contains wisdom. It is more important than Osama Bin Laden or Barack Obama. It is proof of something. I don't know what, but something.
This, for instance, sounds weighty, but does it actually mean anything? All of it has ceased to mean anything to me, so I cannot say. So many words, said with such gravity. It is endless, isn't it. There is no end to the words. Time ceases to exist and Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn smile from their graves.Ignorance comes about in much the same way as when we sentient beings laps into a dream state, and in doing so, forget all the details of our waking lives. Our sentient awareness, having become cut off from the normal mode of accessing the faculty of memory, simply gets confused, and then imagines an entirely new identity within the context of their dream world.