i understand what it is you tried to do professor… simple people are often too quick to judge and attack before spending time to maybe read the statement more than once as their minds require that reinforcement of its meaning without the filters they have attained over their years.
i think the professor was bringing to light a statement that may or may not resonate with some others other there providing them with the motivation to continue to move forward and the message of awareness is a pre-requisite for transcendence.
some on the other hand will not receive that message, they are on a different ‘bandwidth’ if you will… its not bad… its just that those people should respect a statement even if they don’t understand it.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
So what?
If you are constantly changing things and progressing as you wish, in any area of life, why are you even taking time to talk about it / worry about it / “try” to live by the motto of not “growing up”
You are possibly stuck in the rut of trying to stay out of a rut, and you don’t even realise it.
What you said about marriage is not true for all people and all marriages. It is a generalisation, and all generalisations are wrong. (including that one). It is not constant work, no more than breathing is “constant work”. It CAN be constant work if two people get married and aren’t well suited … and then, anything can be considered “constant work” if you look on life as a constant battle to overcome being in a rut, changing, progressing, trying to not end up middle aged with some kind of mid-life crisis - that kind of thinking is going to go with you into your mid-life and beyond, and it is pointless.
And just so my post doesn’t come across as pointless I will try and rephrase it …
Looking to prevent / avoid / defeat the abstract idea of “growing up” is NOT as good as focusing your efforts and attention on enjoying, learning, playing LIKE A CHILD.
Don’t you see the irony? You’re attacking the whole “problem” in the way an un-childlike grown-up would.
Exactly the opposite behaviour that you are trying to have.
Don’t think I am having a dig at you, I am not, from your posts it is clear that you are quite intelligent and thinking (sometimes that is a rare combination) but also I detect - and I might be wrong - a frequent undertone of frustration and anger.
Anyway, back on your original post regarding the childlike-adult, you might want to look at this book
Awakening the Heroes Within : Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
by Carol S. Pearson
Ignore the new-agish title, it is a good work based on Jung and is a hierachy of archetypes from the most infantile to the most mature, and the 12th one, the Fool, is probably what you are trying to describe and aspire to, and it is what people should be trying to aspire to.
I believe if you read that book then the concepts you are trying to describe, will be completely nailed. You can get it for $6 on amazon.
What the living fuck was all of this written for? To show that you read a couple of books? You wrote all of this to prove in some way that by discussing the act of avoiding becoming complacent somehow means I am in a rut? That makes zero sense regardless of how you philosophically massage it. The majority of the people on this planet become complacent in several aspects of their lives. It isn’t until they get awoken from some near death experience that most realize it. Why would anyone try to stop the discussion of it?
One thing is evident, I can learn something from anyone, even if that something is that your opinion means about as much to me as the mating habits of the south african dung beetle.
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