A happening is when the wind blows and leaves flutter or when the doc hits the funny spot in your knee and your leg jolts. Or even more simple, when the wind just blows.
It seems that we are prone to believe everything outside of us are happenings and that we are somehow exempt from being happenings ourselves. That when we act and think and talk we are moving by ourselves, by our will. That thoughts and feelings are ours and that we are those thoughts and feelings.
However, there are moments that shatter this illusion. Say, when we are angry for example.
Has this happened to you? In a fit of anger words just came out of your mouth and they didn't feel like they were truly yours? As if a thought bypassed your control and was set free into the world. It seemingly came out of nowhere, it happened. A kneejerk reaction, just like a reflex.
And it dawns that maybe you weren't in control after all. That maybe all thoughts, just like the wind and the leaves, are happenings and for all this time you were merely pretending of being in control. That perhaps this byproduct of the brain started to believe that it is the controller and not the observer.
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Humans (not necessarily exclusively) have will, and it's intuitive to think wills are free, but it isn't and i think postulating the will being free is just a matter of not just trying to analyze or examine the proposition, for me it's like those kind of thoughts that we "acquire" rather than believing, and i say that because i think language and culture influence this belief significantly
I agree that intuitively there seems to be free will but I don't know if that's true
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for some reason this post made me really think #if theres a god #2 whos our true god
bc the way that your post makes it seem, we do have a god thats under control of us and that god is mother nature/the universe.
but then theres the christian god, whats their expirences with what your talking abt, do they think that mother nature is their god like i feel like this is so off topic and its going to start a whole thing its these comments XD
>bc the way that your post makes it seem, we do have a god thats under control of us and that god is mother nature/the universe.
Sort of. Although the manifestation of this god is through us and the entire cosmos. So this god is us and everything else in our world. It's hard to say if the cosmos is moving us or if we are the cosmos moving itself because it's probably the same thing.
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yk i think your a very smart person, i feel like we'll never get the answer to any of our questions until death bc theres so much stuff on this earth including death that theres no answer to what it is how it became whats the studies on it etc, whats your opinion abt that?
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We'll probably not get any answers in death either. I find that both theists and atheists grasp at too many straws. On one side they assume no god is possible, when this entire world exists somehow, and in the theist camp they take too many leaps and make too many assumptions about God. I'm more interested in the immediate reality and to me it seems we are more like a whirlwind or something - an act of nature, something with many causes and no immediate agents. How that came to be - God or no God - I can't know
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hmmmm thats a really good perspective i think everyone should shot worrying abt the future and focus on whats going on in the present moment but at the same time i think thats why weve became less creative like for a example when all tech was like "fruitigo aero) it was so coloful and expressive and websites where so inlove with personal customization now everythings flat and "modern" idk i could be completely wrong on that but ig what i wanna know is why did everything seem so depressing when the world "locked in"?
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