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Coming up with your perception on what life is or why it is creates a reflection that is necessary. I believe this meditation is healthy and keeps anyone who completes this exercise grounded. When I was in school, I was asked to share my 'View on Life.' This is what I shared:
I have been blessed to live in a time when the view of life has been opened more than ever before. By this, I mean we know more about life as a whole than any other time in the history of this world. I am excited when I hear that we’ve found better ways to help babies who are born at 20 weeks, and possibly sooner, to survive. Our parents work so hard to make sure we
- Come into this world healthy,
- Survive to adulthood, and
- Are self-sustaining so we can continue the trend.
I am saddened when I hear of the teenage suicide rate. It proves we have much more to teach the upcoming generation and how to cope with the ups and downs of life.
I believe that before I was born, I had a purpose in coming to this earth. This also means I was not here, but needed to come. I feel I was an intelligence clothed with a spiritual body and that the spiritual body was clothed with a physical body through conception and birth. The time we have here on this earth is meant for us to become the best we can and try to be perfected. This also implies a moral right and wrong. I feel as we try to do more right than wrong, we can become perfected. In this way, my opinion is that even if we do something wrong, we can become perfect. It takes finding the wrongs we do, flipping them on their 'head' and changing internally how we react in similar situations so that real change is made. This is a growing process. I don’t think of myself as a thousand versions of me, based on dates in time and how I was at this age or that, but rather an accumulation of all my experiences and how I react to the stimuli in my life. The culmination of what I've become is what determines my perfection or lack thereof. I also see death as a vital part of life, just as crucial as birth.
What's your view on life?
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19 commentsFor anyone who may wonder, I upvote my own work because I feel it has value for the Hive community...Thanks for coming and reading my work!
'We' (50yrs +) seem to have been the last of the 'lucky ones' - imo.
Young 'uns are victims of a decadent society that seems intent on lowering every standard possible, until everyone is wallowing in shite.
Postmodernist education + living off the profits of a previously a successful society + taking wealth from future generations (debt based monetary system) = civilizations in decay (for the 99%).
I still have hope, but I understand your sentiment. It's not without merit.
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Any replies i give - that delve into ‘this project’ going forwards - from either a philosophical, intellectual, or spiritual one, in nature – will be posted on this account as a way of reply.
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Thanks for any support that you can give on this account, going forwards.
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Great post sir and really like your view on life indeed 🙏
Life is full of mysteries no one knows what will be in the next page we should always feel excited for the next day who knows what is has for us
You sir, are absolutely correct! Thank you
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ENGAGEtokens.That meets what I think of it, too. Death is too much feared, if you ask me. ... Or maybe, it's not death but dying.
Without death, we could not value life. Too many people seem to have forgotten this.
... I thought that, too. For a long time. Now I am not certain. I think we think that we know much, but as I began to see it, it's not much different from, let's say, four hundred years ago. Back then we certainly praised what one calls "science" in the same way we do now. We may have ingrained more superstitious tendencies than we like to admit. We like to believe in the almightiness of our own species, yet our human perspective makes it hard to leave it. To know thyself, it takes wisdom and is more of a philosophical or spiritual approach, one, we can attain when we experience ourselves as creators of our culture on a small and intimate scale. Building a shelter, repairing what is necessary, taking care of living beings, giving company to the small, old, sick and dying. Sing, celebrate and dance when we feel joy. Things like that.
The whole understanding of germs and viruses has definitely expanded since 400 years ago :) Artificial hearts and other organs as well as other devices that can be controlled by the brain are definitely breakthroughs regarding life we have enjoyed only in the last century, but I understand what you're saying. Thanks!
You probably know the saying "the devil is in the detail"? If you take the trouble to go into the details of virus theory or organ transplantation medicine, you will get a detailed view of things that probably opens up another side besides the beneficial one that I assume from your words.
Do you believe that this whole wonderful world of medical miracles has been researched, financed and implemented for a few? Do you believe that illness could be the exception to the rule (health)?
You seem to be familiar with economics, which follows its own logic, namely that medical research and innovation is only worthwhile if it can expect a mass consumer market. no?
Healthy people must become as many sick people as possible, isn't that obvious to you? What research costs and who all wants to be paid by and through it for "new scientific breakthroughs" - no one will make the effort for a minority because the effort would simply be too high with all the requirements and conditions that, at least until today, one is obliged to comply with for pharmaceutical and medical products.
Have you noticed, for example, how few testimonials and stories there are from former patients in organ transplant medicine? After the happy ending of an organ operation, for example, what kind of life do you think these people lead? Do you know the stories of parents whose children, lying in intensive care, are pressured by transplant teams in hospitals to donate the organs of their child who has not yet died?
You have now named a topic that I have dealt with in great detail. I wrote a very long and in-depth article on this and I'm a little sorry that I'm confronting you with these questions, but after what I researched, I developed a special relationship with this issue that is not a very happy one.
Greetings to you.
Regardless of the economics involved in medicine, I feel you're still proving my point that we have a much greater understanding of life than ever before. I grant you that medicine and its economics are not and probably will never be pretty. I do believe we're on a good trajectory, but that could also be chalked up to a life of really good health and a healthy ahem dose of naivete.
The point is that I prove your point? HaHa, that's kind of funny. :D
I felt invited to tell you my view.
Precisely what do you mean? That my and your knowledge of the unpalatable principles of economics combined with medicine will save us from a majority of superstitious beliefs?
How much do you have to do in practice with people who have undergone the impressive medical-technical possibilities and were independent ever after?
The problem is that it is always those who have to have the medical inventions tried out on them who have no way of resisting: The old, children and the poor. It seems to me that it is not without reason that you attach importance to being educated and wealthy, because there is an inherent awareness that there is a nasty side to it. From that point of view, I don't see any naivety in it.
Countless prepare the way to maintain a theoretical admiration of human knowledge that likes to admire such. However, if you yourself believe that medicine is at an unimagined level of knowledge, then yes, it is not without a certain naivety.
The privilege of healthy people who have not yet undergone continuous medical treatment is to feel invincible and strong for as long as it takes them to be strong. However, those who begin to take precautionary measures to protect themselves against illness simply because the suggestion is promoted that prevention will save them from the fate of becoming ill, overestimate human understanding and knowledge because they ultimately believe they will find answers that reveal the key to life.
In fact, I don't believe that people believe that. But they feel that they are being forced to believe such things and that they basically seem to have no choice.
What is happening in the world at the moment reminds me of myths where a fearful king first tries the shaman's medicine on his subjects to see if they don't drop dead. And even if they don't exactly die, but the medicine weakens them and causes distressful discomfort, this king will be careful not to drink such potion. For he is not concerned with the health of his subjects, but with their numbers, their usefulness and their obedience. To this end, he makes use of the shaman, today's scientist, to impress the crowds who gaze in awe at the holy grail of his art.
I do not deny, however, that impressive medicine seems to exist, though I must say that I have never personally encountered it or that it has not always had its price. What I have experienced is that severe physical pain cannot be relieved by any pharmaceutical product, but requires a humanly devoted body and mind therapy to alleviate pain and eventually be pain-free. Exceptions prove the rule, as you won't find devotion anywhere in modern medicine, just devices, pills, diagnostics and so on. Where there is such a thing as devotion, you have a groundbreaking medical icon.
Coming back to your initial statement that "we have a much greater understanding of life than ever before" I like to throw in that this understanding - at least on the philosophical side - was already there thousands of years ago.
In terms of philosophy, you may be right. I am glad you shared your view. I feel edified for having read it.
Maybe related, maybe not...I injured my foot. I asked the doctor for advice. Before I did so, I did a search online to see where exactly the pain was based on where I felt it so that I could tell the doctor with near pinpoint accuracy where I felt pain. I got the treatment I expected...I say, "my foot hurts." The doctor says, "your foot is injured." I say, "I've taken ibuprofen to cut down the swelling so it can heal and I've elevated it, along with not using it too much." The doctor says, " taking the anti-inflammatory will help it reduce swelling so it can heal. If you do use it, use a brace to support it."
I wasn't surprised to hear the recommendations. I had done the research myself. The cool thing is...I was able to do the research. I know we give medical professionals more credit than I believe they deserve quite often. They've done the research and try to make logical conclusions. There's no magic in that. I also think it's funny when someone takes a personality test which then concludes what personality they have and the person taking the test is shocked at how well the test knows them...it's so dumb! Even then, I do feel our understanding of the medical side of life is advanced greatly. The philosophical...that will always be in debate :)
Thank you for the compliment. I appreciate it very much.
Thank you also for your example.
However, I'd like to add my two cents. The health system is corrupt to the core. A large proportion of doctors have a business and not a practice. The practice consists of the very things you just mentioned and doctors are increasingly forgetting to see the whole person, to examine without relying on a thousand technical diagnostic devices. I would say that the expectation of what medicine can do for you today has risen proportionally with films that always show the ideal case, not without a truly compassionate and infinitely devoted nursing staff. They like to show such images and the people at the screens then believe that this is how it would be.
I did public relations for medical devices and doctors and I can tell you that it was all about prestige, about recouping the investment costs for the expensive and modern devices and the excessive vanity of the doctors. I was appalled by this callous and condescending manner and learned a lot about doctors there.
In terms of their art, I can't see much of it and probably only those who pay them exceedingly well for it get to enjoy this care, which expresses itself mostly in time. The majority is simply a billing factor in daily business.
Skulls ten-thousands of years old have been found and examined in caves, and they found holes drilled in the bones of the skull that indicated medical surgery. I think long before the modern age, people had a lot of knowledge of how to remedy ailments and developed a high art of treating and administering medicine. Operations, for example, can be carried out entirely without anaesthesia by means of hypnosis. But nobody cares because a.) no anaesthetics are used and pharma objects b.) it would reduce costs and profits c.) it would reduce the status of the patient's dependence completely on the medical staff and d.) it would tarnish the god-like image of the surgeons.
I would therefore want to contradict your thesis in parts, because I don't think that we are dealing with a linear increase in knowledge, but that our ancestors already knew a lot and, according to their local and cultural circumstances, were probably even better positioned than we are today. In my view, it is rather something cyclical or characterised by small or even large feedback loops of knowledge and ignorance. Which can also extend over a period of several hundred years or even longer. The other part that agrees with you is that knowledge is more widely distributed and more ordinary people can get hold of information that makes deeper self-study possible.
P.S. say hello to your foot and wish it well :)