RE: Why Why?
November 8, 2021 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2021 at 12:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Imagine some insufferable person...and then wonder if all of the insufferable things they do are examples of what they believe to be endearing or redeeming about themselves in light of their beliefs about the meaning of it all, the why of whys.
That they seek endearment, and seek redemption, and even seek a meaningful relationship...just not from anyone that they're interacting with. Just one of the many ways in which our answers to the whys are consequential. When people ask about our whys we're telling them about ourselves and we're very real and very effective actors in mere reality - and that's why..I think...regardless of any answer to the accuracy of those answers....we're compelled to answer those questions for ourselves..and catalogue the answers of those around us.
If you ask somebody why we're here and they say rape and pillage - you make a mental note. So on and so forth all the way down to minor irritants and back up the scale from normal to wonderful people. If you want to exert a little bodily autonomy..or even just hold out the possibility that you could someday - having no intention at present and perhaps even being uncomfortable with the idea...then you don't surround yourself and cram the halls of authority with evangelicals, for example. You know who to avoid the very second they get to their explanation of why all of this exists...which will eventually burst forth from them whether anyone wants to hear it or not.
That they seek endearment, and seek redemption, and even seek a meaningful relationship...just not from anyone that they're interacting with. Just one of the many ways in which our answers to the whys are consequential. When people ask about our whys we're telling them about ourselves and we're very real and very effective actors in mere reality - and that's why..I think...regardless of any answer to the accuracy of those answers....we're compelled to answer those questions for ourselves..and catalogue the answers of those around us.
If you ask somebody why we're here and they say rape and pillage - you make a mental note. So on and so forth all the way down to minor irritants and back up the scale from normal to wonderful people. If you want to exert a little bodily autonomy..or even just hold out the possibility that you could someday - having no intention at present and perhaps even being uncomfortable with the idea...then you don't surround yourself and cram the halls of authority with evangelicals, for example. You know who to avoid the very second they get to their explanation of why all of this exists...which will eventually burst forth from them whether anyone wants to hear it or not.
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