"Shun Theory and Ideas. Embrace Reality and Tangibility."

[dissectional]

Life is not an idea about life. A person is not an idea about a person. Life occurs within the realm of bodily expressions and sensory particulars, NOT within the realm of intellectual abstractions.

Comments

[richard_gaas]

Right on matt! Seriously, spread the word!! Maybe they'll eventually get it..

[dissectional]

I sure do hope so...and I hope to always "get it" myself...and to keep it. This issue causes me to experience much sadness because of the pragmatic, concrete, tangible effects that it has on me. I wish people would love people as they are. I wish people wouldn't be narcissistic. I wish people were in touch with their own humility. I wish people were in touch with how "small" they are in comparison to the soul. I wish people practiced non-utilitarianism relative to other people. I wish people were not always trying to protect themselves. I wish people were not always trying to protect themselves from the possibility that they might have to give up something, particularly their pride (which can take many forms, particularly the form of rejection due to a person not being in conformity with preconceived totally ideological and/or sentimental standards). I wish people were not so much of the mentality that "It's all about me. It's all about 'getting mine.'" I wish people gave a shit about the immorality of all of these things (in practice