October 3, 2008

• Furthermore: Thinking, Language

  Minds are separated from each other in the first instance because only we can think our thoughts, and we cannot know what the next person is thinking unless they decide to tell us.  But even further, it seems that we still do not know what they are thinking even after they tell us.  For it is not only so that sentences, which is what they would use when explaining their thought, are not equivalent to thoughts, but that often times the sentences we translate our thoughts into do not cause the same thought to happen in the mind of the person listening.  Life is happening to us in the first place in our thoughts, and our descriptions of those thoughts is merely a game summary, an indication of the “something” going on somewhere else, but is still completely divorced from it.  You can see your thoughts, and you alone.  That is the essence of being an individual with a mind, and a unique way of seeing the world, which is why unless there is a nonphysical being we can know in this realm of our mind, it is a very lonely thing to be a thinking being. 

  Because all our descriptions fail to cause our thoughts in the minds of others, sooner or later we ought to give up the quest of trying, so long as in trying it is stalling us from furthering our thoughts.  For each mind is a prodigious construction project, where the end of life sees all the ideas and their relationships spun in a mind that started at nothing, and one must get on with building it in what they hope to be as close to the likeness of truth as they can.  Another person may be a critic, but of what?  Do they see your thoughts?  If you honestly desire truth, and know this as the deepest part of you, let that be your guide and leave the critics in their darkness. 

  It does no good to desire to know the truth if once known one does not desire to obey it.

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