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I'm reading book reviews right now about marriage basically being a raw deal for men, failing to come up with what I want to write... So this may be a little.... incoherent.... my bad.
QUICK EDIT: though if you want to skip past the crazy talk down below to my recap, that'll probably help to find my basic questions. Though I want to keep the crazy talk because I find it interesting to theorize about weird stuff like this. END EDIT
The basic question is; what is wisdom? How do you obtain it? How should you use it?
A Google search or two seems to be synonymous with religion and Christianity. While I, personally, believe that wisdom can come from anywhere I've noticed my personal bias against even clicking on most of these links.... really need to get over that.
But I want to understand. I want to understand how the world works, not just what my own growing discontent and bitterness is leading me to. I'm sure a lot of it is correct, otherwise I wouldn't believe it. But the other part of me believes there has to be something greater. Something greater than simply adapting to the world and living on your terms as best you can, because it's lonely at the top. That doesn't sound fulfilling, but neither does what I'm about to go into sound like it would bring personal happiness either.
One of my greater [maybe] goals in life, that I keep swinging back and forth from even going after, is to basically dismantle the education system as it is now and build something greater. Something that will actually serve people well into their lives.
Part of me says 'Do it for society! Be a hero!'. But the other part of me basically just says 'let the world burn'.
The benefits of this would be to create and spread more useful knowledge out into the world, which is something that genuinely excites me. But I wouldn't stop there. I would basically use this school to find the people that have in interest in politics. Then use them to basically take over different political arenas and place someone in the presidency to change everything unopposed, in a way that I envision. I see this fictional dream as a great boon to humanity. But is that real wisdom or a childish selfishness to make the world into something I believe it should be? Does it even matter? Or if it's good or bad decided only by success or failure in the eyes of history?
My cousin said that this idea was something very similar to Hitler... I see it as different but I can certainly understand the argument there.
Another of my beliefs is that politicians are disgusting liars who only serve themselves and would poison the public as soon as it benefited them. But they're the only ones with any real power to change anything. But they have helped corral citizens into a state of learned helplessness that has lead to a fairly stable peace. Would it really be right or wrong to try and change that? Forget the fact that being able to do something like that is likely only a fantasy; say that I could, is it right? Changing a system that has been put into place like that would likely destroy this peace we all enjoy now and cause lots of death and widespread destruction. But if it succeeded, I think it would benefit humanity in the long run. So does that belief alone justify even attempting this challenge? I want to understand how to do something like this and what would be the outcome. That's what I'm after, I suppose. Is just a higher level of understanding.
Psychological Egoism leads me to believe that I have no obligation to the world, only to myself. But that will only lead to more anger at how life is and a growing discontent with how I want life to be. As a powerful man, couldn't I change how life is?
Things like this is what makes me think, what is wisdom? How do I know what to do in life, how to understand what will happen through time as it flows by? Chase talks a lot about history and learning that as time flows on, it goes in the form of a pendulum, simply swinging from side to side for all of eternity. If I were to learn more about that pendulum, wouldn't it be possible to see a way to change it? Where should I start in learning about history? To learn how the world works beyond my own bias' and interpret it as it is rather than simply seeing what I believe to be there, or want to be.
Where do I start, what path should I take? How do I understand how the world works? How human beings work?
I've spent a great deal of energy and hours into learning about how the individual works, and even learned a little bit in how to manipulate that for my benefit. But I can't help but see myself as evil because of it and this possible goal of mine.
I believe in Psychological Egoism because human beings are nothing more than incredibly intelligent animals. An animals first priority is in survival of its genes, therefore reproduction. But is that all there is to it? There has to be more...
I've become adept at getting sex, and therefore serving my base biological need of reproduction. But I'm only content with that, not really happy. Would this delusion of changing the world make me happy? Would something else? How do I find out? I need to understand...
For anyone that follows Psychological Typing, it would help to know that I'm an:
ENTP type 5w4, 3w2, 9w8
Though I'm sure the type 5 and 3 comes out very strong in my little delusion of grandeur I wrote about up top.
So to recap my questions after re-reading it and finally being able to put it into short little sentences and questions:
1) What is wisdom and how do I get it?
2) How do I achieve a higher level of understanding in how the world works?
3) What makes a person happy, rather than just partially content?
4) When studying history, where should you start?
5) What makes for a fulfilling life?
QUICK EDIT: though if you want to skip past the crazy talk down below to my recap, that'll probably help to find my basic questions. Though I want to keep the crazy talk because I find it interesting to theorize about weird stuff like this. END EDIT
The basic question is; what is wisdom? How do you obtain it? How should you use it?
A Google search or two seems to be synonymous with religion and Christianity. While I, personally, believe that wisdom can come from anywhere I've noticed my personal bias against even clicking on most of these links.... really need to get over that.
But I want to understand. I want to understand how the world works, not just what my own growing discontent and bitterness is leading me to. I'm sure a lot of it is correct, otherwise I wouldn't believe it. But the other part of me believes there has to be something greater. Something greater than simply adapting to the world and living on your terms as best you can, because it's lonely at the top. That doesn't sound fulfilling, but neither does what I'm about to go into sound like it would bring personal happiness either.
One of my greater [maybe] goals in life, that I keep swinging back and forth from even going after, is to basically dismantle the education system as it is now and build something greater. Something that will actually serve people well into their lives.
Part of me says 'Do it for society! Be a hero!'. But the other part of me basically just says 'let the world burn'.
The benefits of this would be to create and spread more useful knowledge out into the world, which is something that genuinely excites me. But I wouldn't stop there. I would basically use this school to find the people that have in interest in politics. Then use them to basically take over different political arenas and place someone in the presidency to change everything unopposed, in a way that I envision. I see this fictional dream as a great boon to humanity. But is that real wisdom or a childish selfishness to make the world into something I believe it should be? Does it even matter? Or if it's good or bad decided only by success or failure in the eyes of history?
My cousin said that this idea was something very similar to Hitler... I see it as different but I can certainly understand the argument there.
Another of my beliefs is that politicians are disgusting liars who only serve themselves and would poison the public as soon as it benefited them. But they're the only ones with any real power to change anything. But they have helped corral citizens into a state of learned helplessness that has lead to a fairly stable peace. Would it really be right or wrong to try and change that? Forget the fact that being able to do something like that is likely only a fantasy; say that I could, is it right? Changing a system that has been put into place like that would likely destroy this peace we all enjoy now and cause lots of death and widespread destruction. But if it succeeded, I think it would benefit humanity in the long run. So does that belief alone justify even attempting this challenge? I want to understand how to do something like this and what would be the outcome. That's what I'm after, I suppose. Is just a higher level of understanding.
Psychological Egoism leads me to believe that I have no obligation to the world, only to myself. But that will only lead to more anger at how life is and a growing discontent with how I want life to be. As a powerful man, couldn't I change how life is?
Things like this is what makes me think, what is wisdom? How do I know what to do in life, how to understand what will happen through time as it flows by? Chase talks a lot about history and learning that as time flows on, it goes in the form of a pendulum, simply swinging from side to side for all of eternity. If I were to learn more about that pendulum, wouldn't it be possible to see a way to change it? Where should I start in learning about history? To learn how the world works beyond my own bias' and interpret it as it is rather than simply seeing what I believe to be there, or want to be.
Where do I start, what path should I take? How do I understand how the world works? How human beings work?
I've spent a great deal of energy and hours into learning about how the individual works, and even learned a little bit in how to manipulate that for my benefit. But I can't help but see myself as evil because of it and this possible goal of mine.
I believe in Psychological Egoism because human beings are nothing more than incredibly intelligent animals. An animals first priority is in survival of its genes, therefore reproduction. But is that all there is to it? There has to be more...
I've become adept at getting sex, and therefore serving my base biological need of reproduction. But I'm only content with that, not really happy. Would this delusion of changing the world make me happy? Would something else? How do I find out? I need to understand...
For anyone that follows Psychological Typing, it would help to know that I'm an:
ENTP type 5w4, 3w2, 9w8
Though I'm sure the type 5 and 3 comes out very strong in my little delusion of grandeur I wrote about up top.
So to recap my questions after re-reading it and finally being able to put it into short little sentences and questions:
1) What is wisdom and how do I get it?
2) How do I achieve a higher level of understanding in how the world works?
3) What makes a person happy, rather than just partially content?
4) When studying history, where should you start?
5) What makes for a fulfilling life?