Wikkidpissah - Life Manual Thread (1 Viewer)

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

Real good stuff, wikkid.

Thnx - as usual.

 

[Jayrod]

Wait a minute! Had i fallen across something here? Could happiness just be extant, sitting there waiting for us, the natural consequence of being ready to receive it? I thought&thought&thought and any of you who know how voracious my processes & abilities are can imagine how far i chased this notion in the year i pursued little else. Through me, past God & humanity, all the way to big cats on the Serengeti scratching their bellies, ignoring the flies and falling lightly to sleep after a three-day kill and the games they played with their cousins during & after picking dem bones.

It's there, my friends, out there circling your existence waiting to land if you will only clear ample space for it and wave it in. And it will stay as long as you don't crowd it out, proving God's love, confirming life's grace, confounding our consipracies against ourselves or whatever abilding illusion about the best things in life have you thinking about the reason for and possibility of it.

Good work here, wikkid, as usual.

Can you expound on "happiness" a bit? See this as a potential speaker/listener gap in understanding that was mentioned earlier.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Good work here, wikkid, as usual.

Can you expound on "happiness" a bit? See this as a potential speaker/listener gap in understanding that was mentioned earlier.

Some explanation of happiness was intended for part 2 of what i wrote yesterday, but i'll punch it up a little just for you, boyo. Should be right up your alley because i stole a lot of the techniques for inviting happiness in from the born-agains. Just another reason i'm goin to Hell........

 

[wikkidpissah]

HAPPINESS​

Does it exist? Yes.

Is it extant? Is it an entity? I don't know. I have had strong feelings since i was quite young that, since thought is energy (we have between 30-40 watts of electrical running mental ops at any one time) and, since energy produced is energy forever in one form or another, there may well be an electro-magnetic band/web/grid around us - largely rinsed of will & memory, i should think - of human spirit. That would explain phenomenology at least as well as old wives tales, religion or hysterical confabulation does. Access would almost necessarily be accidental, so i don't want to get bogged down discussing it, but i'll go so far as to say that spirit might well be a dimension.

Is it a condition, a state of being? Yes. I can confidently state that the human pre-frontal cortex is preternaturally inclined to produce, via neuronic structure, a condition of neutrality between alarms orchestrated precisely to be positive, peaceful & pleasant within the host, that it may always be in an optimal condition of readiness. I am not enough of a scientist to prove same, but i have read enough science and done enough behavioral modeling to assert that happiness is a condition of existence intentionally manufactured by the human body, separate from pleasure response, separate from excitation. A state of willful readiness which, combined with memory of past achievement and anticipation of future endeavour, may reach the point of joy.

There. I'll answer questions on that, but i wrote it specially today mindful of a specific intent of not having to answer too many. Your value judgements are yours - if you believe that i or others may be edified by inquiry, ask/comment away.

I'm writing more today, but i don't want to lose this - spring winds causing lotsa power outs here - so i'll post

 

[ProstheticRGK]

HAPPINESS​

Does it exist? Yes.

Is it extant? Is it an entity? I don't know. I have had strong feelings since i was quite young that, since thought is energy (we have between 30-40 watts of electrical running mental ops at any one time) and, since energy produced is energy forever in one form or another, there may well be an electro-magnetic band/web/grid around us - largely rinsed of will & memory, i should think - of human spirit. That would explain phenomenology at least as well as old wives tales, religion or hysterical confabulation does. Access would almost necessarily be accidental, so i don't want to get bogged down discussing it, but i'll go so far as to say that spirit might well be a dimension.

Is it a condition, a state of being? Yes. I can confidently state that the human pre-frontal cortex is preternaturally inclined to produce, via neuronic structure, a condition of neutrality between alarms orchestrated precisely to be positive, peaceful & pleasant within the host, that it may always be in an optimal condition of readiness. I am not enough of a scientist to prove same, but i have read enough science and done enough behavioral modeling to assert that happiness is a condition of existence intentionally manufactured by the human body, separate from pleasure response, separate from excitation. A state of willful readiness which, combined with memory of past achievement and anticipation of future endeavour, may reach the point of joy.

Also, the nature of will, volition and does 'free will' exist. And how they affect the creation of the mental state required for happiness.

There. I'll answer questions on that, but i wrote it specially today mindful of a specific intent of not having to answer too many. Your value judgements are yours - if you believe that i or others may be edified by inquiry, ask/comment away.

I'm writing more today, but i don't want to lose this - spring winds causing lotsa power outs here - so i'll post

So far, you're pulling thoughts out of my head... different path, different methodology, different terms and definitions. But my understanding of life, psychology and the nature of the human being leads me to what seem like the same conclusions. I'd ask, if you get a chance, to comment on the nature of human consciousness and the interaction between it and the state of ready neutrality, if any.

 

[wikkidpissah]

HAPPINESS, part 2​

I was delighted by curiosity and order from the start, traded order for mischief at about age eight as a reaction to parental control, but was raised to be good before great (a verrrry Irish thing) and had no major tragedies about which to fester, so i was a high-percentile candidate for pursuit of happiness when i came into my own. My path was widely expanded when a situation, more unlucky than catastrophic, cause me to run away from home, for good, when i was 15.

Being a New England boy, i might not have had my introduction to intentional happiness until i was well into adulthood if not for my travels. As Mark Twain said, 

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Beyond the rapture of variety inherent to wandering, my journey (rapidly becoming my 2nd most-hated word, next to "awesome") led me to a human experience, oft repeated, which changed my life. One cannot be homeless for a year and a half without encountering a lot of evangelical Christianity. God bless em, them folks do provide a lot of aid and comfort to the vulnerable, as both a Christian AND evangelical effort. While i was fed & sheltered by a lot of traditional missions, 1970 was also Jesusfreakism's burgeoning era and Christian hippie communes were popping up all over. Communes were good ways to trade light work for brief hospitality.

While bypassing Chicago (a serious clusterhug for hitchhikers) on an East-West jaunt, i availed myself of one such community in Lake St Mary's, Ohio. While helping in the pantry, i was thunderstruck by a beauteous freakette and proceeded to follow her as a pheromonic slave for the duration of my stay. This included Bible studies and worship rings and this is where i first encountered engineered happiness. A gentle, wise, wiry mustached, subliminally fascist minister of God would lead the devotion at the end of their meetings and be supported by quiet, sustained "yes, yes"s and "praise be"s as he detailed the community's gratitude to their Lord, Jesus Christ, and listed a serious volume of situations and aspirations which they were delivering unto his care. Any more would be parody, but it was actually quite charming and honestly fulfilling to see what every hippie sought - bliss and peaceful heart - enter these lives so effectively.

Because i was soon on the road again - and there is no thinkin' time like hobo time - i deeply considered what i had seen and, while it never came close to leading me to conversion, it was by the lessons of those gatherings (i stopped by every time i crossed the country for years after, even once i had a car, and became deep friends w my crush) that i reached my first understanding that happiness was a condition that human beings could genuinely create. By offering all their cares & worries to an executive power, these folks had bypassed animal alarm, panic and despair and, indeed, had a condition of genuine peace & openness by which to warm and be warmed. Good on em. Good on us. Good on you if you can do it, too.

 

[wikkidpissah]

So far, you're pulling thoughts out of my head... different path, different methodology, different terms and definitions. But my understanding of life, psychology and the nature of the human being leads me to what seem like the same conclusions. I'd ask, if you get a chance, to comment on the nature of human consciousness and the interaction between it and the state of ready neutrality, if any.

Briefly, this is the function of coming down from the trees and into the plains of Africa. By doing so, we increased our chances as hunters, but also increased our occasions as hunted. This is really when we had to reconfigure the concept of herd, required language to do so and needed to develop greater tool utility to prevail. It is generally agreed that this is what inspired rapid growth (in geologic terms) of the cerebral cortex - the need for complex neuronic interaction to achieve community and individual goals. With awareness comes vigilance - as one could indulge the meaning of season to the hunt, the value of performance and mistake to herd status, the multiplicities of communication within and between families, one did so voluminously. Such explosion of growth could occur no other way.

i grew up a pipsqueak. I am now bigger than Vince Wilfork. Most of that was - a foot of height and 5 shoe sizes - achieved in a single year. If my Irish **** came along for the ride, i'd be perfect. Most of the physical maladies i've experienced in my dotage are a direct result of the physical disruption of that growth spurt (stenosis, etc). Likewise, I honestly believe that the cerebrum (human brain) would have been more greatly integrated to the limbic (mammalian) and stem (reptilian) systems had cerebral growth been less thunderous. The tensions between out triune levels create a fitful dynamic that may actually make our brains (and consciousness) more powerful but less malleable. 

My modeling suggests this level of "ready neutrality" but it's a theory of my own construct which i haven't been able to back with formal study, so that's most of what i got.

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

All a this is wonderful, wikkid - but, the sentence that grabbed my ghost da most was this:

... Access would almost necessarily be accidental, so i don't want to get bogged down discussing it, but i'll go so far as to say that spirit might well be a dimension... 

This has been my preferred "mental picture" since - well - I don't rightly know.

However, I can say, it works for me...from a scientific, spiritual & vernacular perspective. 

I like it. In regards to the objective reality of it - I don't know or care, at the moment. If it would be beneficial to care, well - I could do that. 

Great reading this morn - thnx.

 

[gianmarco]

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Just seeing his avatar made me cry all over again.

 

[gianmarco]

These 2 posts belong here too

it's not hard. be life-size - dont try to be bigger than the world, dont let the world be bigger than you. be humble, be fearless. let others wish of being the best, crash on the rocks of their hopes & dreams. better, just better, always better (setbacks are lessons), is good enough for me

there never was, isn't, wont ever be someone who gets to be you this day but you. gosh almighty, that's a gift. if a gift that big dont make you feel generous, well die already.

or give. give and increase your capacity for giving by getting better. you've nothing to prove and everything to provide. dont know what you're doing next? get better at something. anything. give that to yourself. live, love, laugh, leave it better than you found it. happiness begins where selfishness ends. well........................GO!

getting better techniques:

- the most resilient lesson i ever received was from a teacher (who also happened to hustle pool outside of school) of whom i asked the meaning of a word. "look it up, but look it up the right way". "what's that?". "look up your word, then read that whole page of the dictionary. you'll have not only completed your task, but made your world bigger by doing so". if you want to know the source of my vocabulary, aaaand outlook, there it is.....

- Butler For a Day. give yourself the present of picking a day and acting like a butler does in the movies. completely remove your ego, your temper, from all your tasks. make sure everyone you deal with feels served without noticing nor wondering why. butlers take enormous pride in being utterly gracious, competent and anticipatory. your world, your personal capacity will immediately quintuple from a Butler Day.

- say your prayers. after you've put on your jammys and brushed your teeth and moisturized or masturbated, look at yourself in the mirror, take a deep breath, ask yourself what youve done today, what was right, what was wrong, the questions that were raised, the problems you solved, the problems you caused. thank life for the chance, anyway,. resolve to do better tomorrow. g'night.

The world would be a much better place if everyone read what he had to offer and even a fraction took some of it to heart. 

 

[krista4]

Thank you for bumping this, though I don't think I can bear reading it today.  Lots of wisdom in here that will be retained.  Seeing that Tom (MoCS) was posting in the thread is yet another gut punch.

 

[hagmania]

Just because the human brain can conceive of the Divine Comedy, the 9th Symphony, the Theory of Relativity and Geico commercials

I'm going to miss this man.