Significance and reality, as I ponder on the two concepts I begin to believe that Reality, and it's holdings of instances that are of concrete existences, can not produce “significance” and believed-truths by itself. “Significance” to me means “meanings with value”, rather than significance with the definition that it points to signify a reality. Also truth as I will subscribe for this writing, means “believed truth and logic behind an opinion.” thus, I will shorten “believed truth” to simply “truth.” too. I believe the subjunctive n' subjectives and the counter-factuals is what gives life so much meaning. This is because reality by it self without the irrational, is simply a collection of units and instances related to existence, that also stimulates sensory organs or in-it in its self causes reactions that can not evoke reflections by itself, as in “simply doing”, if we are viewing this in the higher dimensions, we place time into one sold and single edifice, just a blob of reality. it will simply be a stagnated object, cold and lifeless, all possibilities of future events and the past all just crammed into that dot, even the big bang is just part of that dot. in the highest dimensions we can simply have it amalgamated to a single point of existence to represent existence in general and all of it's attributes and occurrences that have and that would of been. What is perceived in our senses by it self is simply meaningless existing realities. Human opinions are what only give values and meaning and motivation for the manipulation of reality.
Then I think to myself, then why do we put so much meaning and import to science and act as if science and techniques a deep and meaningful replacement of philosophy and spirituality? When they are simply muted manipulation of reality with no thoughts or expressions? When one holds this position, Man is then just an irrational being trying to only deploy meaning from reality when reality by itself is meaningless existence without using words to contemplate on it's significance. Math, people have said, is the “language of the gods.” I thought about that phrase and now think that math can only be evidences of god and how god would still need to use words to explain His significance and meaning to His creation. Thus math in my opinion is not the language of god, language is the language of god so He can describe what the math in reality means to Him, to the creations of His. Math may simply be the rawest form of showing what reality is while no meaning is given. If we examine this concept some more illustrate my point on how reality has no meaning until we inject the meaning, we can simply use algebra and basic function theory to demonstrate this. An independent variable(input x), and a dependent variable (output y) are of subjective value only since we use these components as forms of techniques, as in, using as a tool into of a function to attribute them to a subjective purpose.
The fact that we do this shows that these components are abstract markings unless we give attributes to them. “y = x” is yet still just scribbles to a dog, to a non savant toddler, and someone incapable to understand math, these are worthless and shows that these beings are able to denote meaning of life without needing to rely on denoting properties of reality. But the markings are not just scribbles if we agree upon a paradigm of it's effects. The in-parties who understand, then have given it's significance, it's definitions of how it can be useful, only then the value and worth shines in, and even then non objective truths can be applied to it either as a culture or by a individual. “That equal sign really looks nice as a conjunction to those numbers. I'm glad we have this as a way to add.” “I'm glad that I have 5 extra!” can also be applied on top of the objective concept of associating of two numeric values.
We then can use this technique to show that we wish to present relationship of x and how it affects y. but this standard was predetermined because y in-it in itself has yet to have a value unless we arbitrarily choose it as a dependent variable being modified by x. we see that different countries also uses different letters or symbols for different math terminologies too. Techniques using science then is merely only applying non subjective techniques to get to our subjective and required survival materialistic needs. But even when we try to be objective we still must add arbitrary non-reasoned beyond usefulness attributes to give concrete value a form so we can signify to the same party what we wish to explain or express. This shows that reality is simply a tool of wants and needs that themselves can not be explain beyond another layer of labeling with no meaning which I will explain later, I also will focus next on materialistic needs via techniques too because the spiritual and/or philosophical goals may be deemed to the individual as of what is needed to be obtained through reality-manipulation to reach a goal, I.e. by doing a painting with techniques to objective manipulation of reality to get illicit drugs by techniques.
But we must ask, why do we want with reality-focused techniques to manipulate reality to get what we want? What about the philosophical and spiritualistic needs that spurs the yearn of the desire that makes us use techniques like math? What about the needs that can not be found existing in reality also? “Why are we here.” is a category outside of reality then we bring it into our reality by pondering on the question by thinking or uttering “why?” “Why” asks the subjective value of “why we are here?, What purpose?” Science can only answer “how.” but not the why. “Why did I do that?.. Because I want that!” Shows that irrationality in what motivates someone in all things that conducts actions and manipulates facets of reality. Because “I want that.” only shows the how-fuel that ignited action rather the meaning of the irrational yearn for “that” without a reason other than want or need. “why” asks a emotional motive, and brushing off the question as “It's just that we exist and it is the way it is.” only shows that “it is” is unrelated to the “why” because “it is.” “why” and “it is.” too are trying to equate a question being an answer. “? = !” is incorrect as a statement is not a question and vice-versa. Saying “it is” is only intrinsically only denoting observation of existence.
Yet motives can potentially can make the statement be a counter-factual utterance too, embedded if the speaker is implying it is a subjective truth, and while showing the irrationality of man's motivations. Yet, this potentially of irrational proclamation with a subjective motive is still not sufficient because it's trying to equate a reality when it's only a passion. He still wants to believe in only the facts and reality without realizing that he operates his life in the subjective! The why can not be simply be answered by facts-in-reality because the instance of asking the question has traveled from the metaphysical realms into the the physical realms and is merely only presenting it self as a part of reality of “now.” just to pose the question. The Why is still a question that need to be answer because because the utterance of “why.” can be recorded and can be felt in our eardrums if we hear it, and can be sensed by our eyes by reading the question, “why?” so “why” is as valid as “is.” as why can explain the meaning onto the existence.” this goes back to the question of; Why do we care “y = x” if it just is?
To get back into algebraic concepts to further illustrate my opinions, a display of “y = x” can be of value, an useful tool, or a signifier to many things, we denote that “y is affected by x.” as a tool to reach an arbitrary number that we subjectively set as an important goal. As in, “In order to get y to equal to 5, x must be 5 too.” and to make a decision based on what values we have, or we can graph the upward slope hill to see the progression and judge it as in “It seems that when x is added by 1, y is then added by 1 too and If I have numbers 1, 3, and 7, I will get 1, 3, 7 as Y values. If 1 and 3 are too small for me to fill a slot of 7 blocks, to reach to my goal, I will then have to pick 7 and wait till x reaches 7 so y outputs 7 blocks for me if I would like the output of 7 to exist for my goal.” I look around and as I see the average modern popular figures that are given subjective value as idols and mythological beings as attributes in the current modern era, it seems like we are told or implied that one must insert his own meaning to life instead of a unseeable god, these people then also flips the coin of these commandments when one is given the signifier to do so to reveal his sinister emotional back-ends, at the other side of this coin of this commandment one would arrogantly decries that what the person who believes in a god or mysticism believes in, what uplifts him, does not falls into what we can see and evaluate with our senses, and is the threat to “progress” to our materialistic realities and goals. He cries out “this man is that of a irrational man. Manipulated by his god and his cult members. Emotional!” But let's examine this remark.
What is wrong with being irrational? This implies a negative connotation alone too. An subjective opinion, even if he is right someone can disagree too. Which the spiritualist man is provoked by embedded emotions that has no meaning too, I'm not talking about objectivity if the sinister man is objectively right or wrong in reality, the debate is what is rather what is ought to subjunctively to get us to a happier state of existence than just passively existing! I'm talking about the subjectivity in hyper secular man's opinions that resulted from the debate of the value of irrationality which ultimately comes from the objective debate wanting to be lead to an technical answer that allows for a subjective goal that we want to make us irrationally feel good. That question I posed can be debated and ultimately requires us to determine emotional value to irrationality. the proclamation and implying that being irrational is bad if he believes in a mythological being is that of a subjective attachment. Of set values that triggers emotional reaction based on a checklists of signifiers that can be felt in reality but the assessment of reality is irrational when it goes beyond stating x = y., the seen scientific methods of observing concrete existence , existing, as in what is able to be seen. This man of the rational, scoffs at any notion of spirituality and surrealism of higher meanings. But without not realizing he has done a irrational opinion that can not be proven in reality as it does not pertain into reality.
He can only point out the atrocities of religions with his opinions of it with his arbitrary values of set beliefs, and devolve spirituality and value in life to a debate of the modern epidemically of modern ephemeral politics, without bring up that religion being manipulated by political secular techniques dating back to the Germanic holy roman empire can be separated by the subjective picking and choosing of values that ultimately can uplift a person no matter the doctrine. Let's not also forget that our modern era where god was already out of our paradigm even before the sixties or the twenties as even way before the medieval times the secularization of god has happened when priests tried to use secular techniques to control a population to make god equal as humans through images, sculptors, and plays and reducing god as a political figure rather than a significant creator of being and what shows us the light for our life. And let's not forget that we are at the mercy of time, as time goes on we shall see more and more suffering due to human's evils even without a god as time still marches on in a godless society we are in. It's the evils of humans and the politicization of the debate of this topic is merely just trend trekking.
and the millions whom has died in the hand of modern politics, communism, and the negative effects of modern techniques are as valid criticism as the criticism of the past islamic slave trade system, and the slaughter of the European pagans and their destroyed history by the Germanic holy roman empire.. humans evils and ill and unwillingness to reform a corrupt aspect of any doctrine and separate spirituality to techniques of population maintenance is what ultimately corrupts a culture in religion and in humanity. And it's human sins whom commits these acts that drags us to misery not becoming to slave to the vapid trendy science that is devoid of meaning once celebrities have marketed science and critical thinking with flashy lights and memes. Science in it self is not bad but the representation and simplifying of it as a tool to control minds is. Let's not also forget that I am talking about a spiritual/philosophical journey not a political one. Ancient times allows man to leave his tribe to the forests so he can make his own discoveries while it's the political techniques that causes control and conquer. Even during the roman empire, the Romans with not enough technique were unable to stop civilians to leave as nomads into the deep forest to allow himself to make his own life and make up his own meaning that uplifts him. At this point then, we can criticize religion and secular techniques.
As One needs to leave rigorous religion and techniques and it's strict needs that uses it's abuse just to validate it's draconian existence so to one can reach and get uplifting spirituality and/or a sense of community through cultural comradery/camaraderie and the uplifting emotions. In which man then can make his own meaning and life stories and not let the burdens of politics and religion to rule him no matter the belief systems. Why care about reality given to us by society at this point if we don't even have control of the memetic facets that society is ushering out to us? After all spreading facts in reality is costly so it needs to be efficient and robotic to spread it self as much as possible to reach goals, I think about how the media from TV, the internet, to the food packages, and other myriad of things we see try to evoke emotions (yet method is emotionless) through symbolism to keep the system feed with it unsustainable lust for power, yet these images don't convey meaning or value, just impulses, so much projection of false realities, judging by a labeling of a frozen dairy product, I should feel as if I am going to be laying by the side of a relaxed, blissful, cow in prairie pastures as the wind soothes me to sleep but in “reality” I am eating a commercially, heavily processed, and artificially flavored watery “cream”sicle that will give me a higher risks of cavities. The reality I live in through these screens are all trying to make a arbitrary mosaic of facts they want me to believe in, and to believe in the mythology of human dramas so I can more easily believe in their lies, so I can more easily function as a cog in the sociological system, from the frivolous treats to the insidious politicians and celebrities themselves that manipulate the common folks so to gain on their neurotic addiction to material realities.
We don't apply thought and irrational meanings and philosophical meanings and try to make ourselves truly more happier and we act irrational in reality so we can chase that addition. We are a society that scuffs at the concept of thinking about the beauty of life. We come to this as a part of the evolution of techniques of efficiency, as we are invested in obtaining materials but while we never try to find meaning and spiritualistic philosophies, while also just in-taking passive facts that we want for our mindless impulses, we evolved too fast to keep our primitive selves in check. using simplified facts to portray what reality is just for conveniences. For the sake of that hormonal bliss and succumbing to our materialistic impulses. The average folk can be blamed too, indeed average folk along as along with the master of techniques, have succumbed to the problem of overabundance and relying heavily on the materialistic realities for their happiness than of what is uplifting and meaningful. to live in passive reality rather than feeling truths and significance of value within realities, we are all told of this paradigm, shown through TVs, advertisement, video games, online posts, and so much other methods, all stereotypes of existence has brewed reality when reality is so much more multifaceted than what is portrayed as. This shuts down meaning behind life as the mechanism of memetics makes it easier to digest and for the victim to use memetics to spread such symbolism like cancer. Memetics it self almost is autonomous as it try to engender itself more and more. Memes allow people to feel better about their reality, yet memes like a animal through evolution must take strides for less energy to reproduce and must spread itself like a virus and be viral by simplifying itself to be more effective. Thus the memes themselves are more and more meaningless as they evolve more and more.
To further my point on why we must allow mankind to be flexible and irrational in order to find logic in his irrational life to give uplifting meaning to living to himself. I want to ask a question. Why do we want to reproduce? “Because it feels good and it motivate us because it feels good and it allows the species to exist, and that is just the way it is.” Does not negate the ad infinitum, the perpetual strings of “whys” that science can never answer because it never pertain to it self to the irrational “why.” and the (meta/out of)physics. only on the “how it is.” because science is just observation of what “is.” not of the metaphysical “why.” There might be an ad infinitum of discoveries too if one must stay in the confides of reality, like how in quantum physics we can check the position of an atom if we “poke” or “probe.” at it. The fact that these atoms may have quantifiable properties yet are so random shows how our quest for meaning through just finding reality's tiny corner might become more and more seemingly meaningless. Almost almost seemingly infinite amount of possibilities of positioning may exist shows that maybe man may never know all of reality's installation. It may show that life's meaning is from poking for an answer by irrational motivation and pondering into one's self but sadly still for the sake of materialistic gains, Modern Man does not care about the ultimate truth, just the existence of the many hows in existence for the sake of maintaining materialistic goals through techniques.
Who knows, even if the pokes are based on solidified averages of positions of these subatomic objects, the future keeps on revealing more and more theories that may never end, to the point that we may have to resort to irrational notions to keep us sane when the science keeps on getting more abstract! I won't forget when a younger cousin asked me when I was a child too, “why we are here.” even if I made up an wacky answer he would simply reply with an interrogative “why?” that single word foreshadowed and sparked a new perspective in my life onto I forever for the longest time have contemplated on this concept ever since. “a = b because b = c because c = d because d = e because e = f because... etc.” It keeps on going on! Noticed that “a” is by it's self. It never got copied over like c in “b = c” and “c = d” or d overlapping with c and e.
The funny thing about this is that we can use inverse of many things in life. Inverse functions can exist. All you have to do is make sure a function has no repeated x values to a single y value and swap the input/function with the output also known as swapping inverse attributes i.e. a + b = a turns to y = x. as the identity operation is being performed so the doing an operation is an inverse of constants addition. This shows that a mathematical expression can be the opposite of what we want to. “I don't want a + b = y I want x - b = y!” this shows us that one can act on reality's opposite functions or output when the opportunity arises as it does not care what we want but rather is just there to be manipulated by our irrational desires.. All of this is, is just algebra turning to a more concrete concept. We can remove a apple from someone's table so we have an apple on ours. Because that apple has arbitrary value and saying that we can not denote reason from this because this is a irrational motivation is like saying reality = truth but not realizing that truth = reality is equally as valid because it is a possibility, we just changed what is a domain (input) and what is the range (output.) and not realizing yet again this equation is simply just existing and declaring existence and nothing more. This is pretty much the Russian doll logic as wee keep on finding just more stuff in the doll once we got bored with one layer and yet we never comment on it and and truly enjoy it and just gaze on the painted beauty and say that's the meaning to life. The hyper secularized world we live in is where the variables a, b, c, d, etc. can be so easily misinterpreted and manipulated to the point that we have to ask our selves this question, is dogmatic hyper atheism really rational when it keeps on daisy chaining discoveries and never is continent with it's discoveries like a drug addict? When a Christian using the more refined the meaning of life a, can be expressed in a = b logic because b is god and his glory is so magnificent that the comfort comes from his light and just faith and meditation alone can rationalize this concept as the analyzing in this reality of only how god can exists, complicates the matters too much, because god is outside of reality since he has made it outside of reality; while too it, it demoralizes the experience if we limit ourselves to what only exists in our reality.
I am not trying to prove the existence of god, but rather value in the irrational and to show how nihilistic it is to never to seek truth by reading the logic and the words behind a belief system. Christians fall into this trap too by wanting to get materialistic pleasures from corporate church's monetary rewards, flashy music videos and movies.
One only demotes himself to a subhuman status of impulses and hedonistic pleasures with no meaning or value when he only cares of the material. Passive and insipid if he must use what in reality and never think of the significance of things to himself about what he is interacting with. I believe that due to our materialistic driven world, and the fact that technique has enslave science to that of what can be produced, our cultural secular gods demand us only to live in reality.
yet should we really forget that reality in it self does not have meaning? Is it not only possible to describe meaning to something if we counter-factually give our own nonobjective, subjective truths onto reality? We do it all the time when we comment on a person clothes, his facial structure, her facial expressions, the style of jokes, all we can do is make mythologies! the taste of food emotionally moves us, a piece of media conjure up emotions and vibes, We subconsciously follow trends and tell about our impressions to ourselves about them, it just that modernity disincentives the commentary of the experiences and the meditation of it and devalue reflection of life has make it to view as useless noise to express ourselves and to break free from the necessities of what products that makes us feel good, and blocks us from thinking about what uplifts our spirits, thus comments are merely there to denote affinity, conforming to the norms, while debates has only never endless arguments of what has concrete existence in reality that ends up causing both party to feel as if they wasted their time, because they tried to mix subjective motives with objective rhetoric. Because the average person only value what stimulates his pleasure criterias. as What is morally good is simply reduced to slogans and knee jerk impulses and what signifies one to action as it stimulated his primal inclinations. The hyper Secularized culture only pertain to signifiers and impulses of these concrete existence in reality yet demands us to stay quiet when consuming our materials, stay quiet if the techniques destroys the human being sense of self, either be it to silence cries of the sociological phenomenal of work fatigue, to the addiction from technology from over abundance that fries the reward and pleasure systems in our neurology, to the rigidity of the system we are enslaved in due to it sheer complexity commanding us to conform to it, otherwise chaos will happen from this fragile spinning top. Many reviews that are deemed “professional” are merely not reflection of a object but rather a strict scientific checklist of if and if the object meets a collection of criterias and how much it matches the impulses of the consumer's unconscious likings.
"You're not being objective" they say if you like a piece of media that is badly put together but one finds charm and meanings as it uplifts the sense of meaning of existence. That's why it feels that the few-yet-powerful-holders-of-the-paradigm's tastes in society has set standards arbitrarily to label what is "high culture" of modern art. As art forms is becoming more and more technique focused to make art to be more controllable, soulless and calculable, representing aspects of life and trying to convey humanistic meaning is viewed as against reality of our ridged structured mechanized life. The pompous aristocrat would say “Oh nice realistic cottage but! Too bad it's not with the time though you old geeeezard! Enjoy some shoe hats, dirty urinals, and period blood plastered on the wall instead old man! Or to a more level headed example of a common folk not aware of the paradigm holders. “Nice cottage by your tea set, but I'm not interested in drinking tea and talking about art, and life, or spirituality, it's all good and all, but I don't have the time sadly, I rather watch a modern superhero movie and enjoy hours of one minute videos on my phone that don't complicate things for me in my busy, productive life, I need flashy fun things as I have short time on my hand after all.” To close this topic, I want to end it with this. The hyper secularization of society separates groups of people and to maintain order within them, I am saying this because it has to keep order, but as the materialists and objectivist would say, “so what it works? Is reality and existence is all you care about that good or bad is irrelevant? through techniques to obtain wealth by the most efficient method possible, you lose the sight of the question why and never ask what would be the end results. Because we only care about reality and not the underlying truth. We look at a painting and never asks what's it's motivation, it's story, it's vision for the future, it's present feelings, it's contemplation of the past and it's meaning of existing. Thus we leave confused. Turning art and music creation to simply just mathematics and soulless endeavors for the sake of technique because the notes or spaces in the art works “are there, and it works” and causes it to be devoid of meaning because it does not reach to a goal of what is the materialistic. And any meaning added to it would be of malintent just to get that quick intense burst of pleasure as we try to put meaning to a scribbles and vomit.
No more where abstract patterns like what is found in ancient Greek architecture and pottery are simply set in the pieces as eye candy so the back of one's mind can have an uplifting atmosphere while also to help bring the mood to a uplifting state for his surroundings, as to help his mood and well being in general so he can reflect on his life more clearly. Now art must serve a materialistic purpose, no more making art for spiritualistic uplifts, now it must be technical so that a millionaire can feel superior for having outlandish taste and so the modern artist feel “more free.” not having to be intimate with his subject and with personal skills, now he can solely rely on techniques to make vomit colors and half effort splashes because it all has techniques applied onto them. As now techniques is solely is used to add worth to everything so one can quickly make money. No emotional value is added to this robotic endeavor and life. Even the more effort driven art pieces tend to use complex techniques and algorithmic like techniques only to declare realities into a piece simply to be praised as avant-grade. And yet so much effort to make a hideous monstrosity only to support the current systems we live in. Technique used to be subjugated for the fun frivolous fun. Now Technique and technology, and needing to manipulate reality for materialistic gains has enslaved us.
It's now that technical yet gaudy creation are elevated to the highest value when it doesn't hold meaning. All of this is to meet the “glorious” concrete existence of criterias and realities that will be labeled as "avant-grade.” or “productive for society” or “progress to a better tomorrow.” yet holds no meaning because no ponder of meaning is allowed. These soulless concepts are praised because they stimulate the spectacular impulses of the consumerist addict holding a checklist. It shocks them but without allowing him room to think and reflect. Just to accept realities and the paradigm Because “it exists, and existence is good, because existence feels good, why? Because it exists! My godless body said so due to evolution existing only!” and reflection on life and how the surroundings has meaning to him is now only viewed as a waste of “calculable neurotic calorie.”