The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe INDEED Berger,INDEED! December 4, 2008

It isn`t very often that i remember of this place, but there is something that i wanted to add up to my post “Smog Cutter” and that`s a passage from a book i`ve read in the summer, after i`ve wrote that post.

 

“The individual`s images are moulded also by three ideas or beliefs which are fixed deep in the unconscious mind of each person and that can rarely be completely eliminated. These beliefs maintain the immortality of his being,the irresistibly of his charms, the omnipotence of his thoughts and feelings. Complementing these ideas are their conscious opposites,which develop later – the threat of the eternal presence of death, the sense of being flawed, and the impotence in relation to the world and the people around him.”

Eric Berne. A Layman`s Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

 

I know the title of the book sound a bit scary,but this is actually a very well written book that makes the information build up inside you like a story, and the information you gather you automatically apply to yourself and to the ones close to you,which will bring a better understanding of …humans!

 

i`ll be back soon!

ta!

things gone past are never to be found again July 14, 2008

on duty! July 9, 2008

One of the things that bothered me even before having this blog was that
writing would become a duty.  Everything that I do and think had to be
acknowledged and the banality of my life had to be twisted and
transformed into meaningful experience and more – that I will purposely
find things to do in order to have something to write about, because as
a blogger you need to post things constantly…or do you?!  I think it`s
an assumed rule of blogging anyway.

Yesterday was the first day and I visited several other blogs and found
that actually blogging is not what i imagined it to be – that a blogger
isn`t a person who, after lengthy study upon his subject, reaches his
conclusions and presents them in a philosophical manner.

So what is a blogger?  A so called thinker with a PC!

Smog cutter July 8, 2008

I DON`T BELIEVE IN GOD OR ANY OTHER SPIRITUAL ENTITY.  I ONLY BELIEVE IN LIFE.

I DON`T BELIEVE IN AN “AFTER LIFE” OR A “BEFORE LIFE”.  I ONLY BELIEVE IN THE NEVER-ENDING RECYCLING PROCESS OF THE LIVING IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN LIFE.

    The only influence through our lives is death, the fear of it, or more accurately, the fear of non-existence.  People seek refuge in the belief of heaven and hell and to most even the possibilty of going to hell itself is more palatable than simply ceasing to exist.

    We spurn the thoughts that one day our bodies will rot – whilst in fact that process began the instant it was conceived -  and that “we” are simply passing through existence endlessly.  Why is it so hard to accept that we are just another link in the food chain necessary to maintain life, just as the apple we had for pudding?!

    There are 3 natural urges that I know of: to eat, to sleep and to fuck/procreate.  I think this is the first thing advertising people are being taught – almost like a well known secret, but one which needs to be kept out of our conscience.  They take these urges individually or in combination and they exploit them in order to distract you and you know it because you are still paying for that new flatscreen television, the mortgage on your house, the kids school fees….
I would say that actually advertising people are here to preserve “sanity” and “order” as is the church, selling you a ticket to heaven in exchange for your obedience to some rules, of which most are common sense.  But then they spoil it for me with “believe and don`t research!”,”happy is the ignorant” and the notion that some mysteries are there for you to discover only after you’re dead!  Yeah, cheers!

    There are two sacred objects people think will bring them immortality – money and celebrity – and their lives are largely spent in a quest to obtain them.
(Par example: how many times do you look at some band in a magazine and want to be just like them?  You want to be like them because they are presented as beautiful, young, sexy, cool, rich…. almost like some deity – ever young and ever alive!)

Hello.  My name is Veronica.  I`m twenty-three years old and I`m afraid of dying.  Why am I writing?  Because just like every one of you I must preserve myself.  I simply don`t want to “live” without a trace…