Long Live Stupidity

All life is made from two rules: survive and have kids. Actions that promote survival and offspring like friendship, love, sex, pride and self-realization is rewarded with happiness, whereas unhealthy actions promote physical or psychic pain, like guilt. All thoughts, feelings and consciousness are illusions made by natural selection.

From young age we learn that family and friendship and love is important. This knowledge gives life a meaning and most people won't even question their own existence. In reality humanity is just as egoistic as every other organism. We take care of ours at the expense of our surroundings. But with our analytic skill humans may be the only organism with the possibility to realize how egoistic natural selection is and how meaningless life is.

Ironically natural selection has made sure people with this knowledge die out or live in silence. If you talk about it people will be offended because they believe they are valuable, and probably think you are depressed and send you to a mental hospital. Suicide is not an easy solution either because people close to you will suffer and they don't know suffering is an illusion. The best course of action is to bury the truth. Long live stupidity.

Puddle Thinking

. . . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

Freedom

If one were to say, freedom can never be achieved with attachments (whether they be physical, mental, emotional, etc.) then must we rid ourselves of memory for ultimate freedom? It seems like a necessary step.

Words of Wisdom

An Interesting Portrayal

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell—mouths mercy, and invented hell—mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

- Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, 1916